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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor for All Ills | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor for All Ills | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Clyster Craze | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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