Word: clyster
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...Quick Clyster. Almost unanimously, those who have served under Knowles speak with adulation of his accessibility, of his willingness to give subordinates a free hand so long as they were doing well. In his Boston years, Knowles put in grueling days-in the office at 7 a.m. and seldom getting to his home near the Country Club in Brookline before 7 o'clock at night. The Knowleses (his wife comes of a wealthy stockbroking family) have six children aged ten to 18. Now Knowles begins his lectures on family planning by conceding that he is "not a prime example...
...extensive library of American history and the social sciences, Knowles the bibliophile is adding works on the history of medicine. As a footnote to the history that Knowles is trying to make, Boston University two months ago gave him an honorary degree. Said the citation: "With the quick clyster of your ribaldry and moral outrage ... you fed physic to your own profession. You purged it. You goosed the quack...
French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
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