A tube or pipe for administering clysters.
1604. Shaks., Oth., II. i. 178. Yet againe, your fingers to your lippes? Would they were Clister-pipes for your sake.
1622. Fletcher, Sea Voy., 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 & Decker, 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.
