clyster-pipe
A tube or pipe for administering clysters.
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 178 Yet againe, your fingers to your lippes? Would they were Clister-pipes for your sake. 1622 Fletcher Sea Voyage i. i, Come Surgeon, out with your glister-pipe And strike a galliard. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 120, I know not what to send, except some clyster-pipes, which are very curiously turned and mounted in this island. 1882 Syd. Soc. Lex., Clyster-pipe, the anal tube of an enema apparatus. Also, the primitive apparatus itself; a bladder to which a pipe or tube was attached. |
† b. A contemptuous name for a medical man.
| 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virgin Martyr iv. i, Thou stinking clyster-pipe, where's the god of rest, Thy pills and base apothecary drugs Threaten'd to bring unto me? a 1672 Wood Life 3 May an. 1661, John Haselwood, a proud starch'd, formal and sycophantizing Clisterpipe, who was the Apothecary to Clayton when he practiced Physick. |