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Clisters. A Clister is a Medicine cast into the bowels by the fundament, and is made of Roots, Seeds, Fruits, Flowers, flesh of Beasts, Oyle, Honey, and the like; the quantity is according to the disposition of the Patient,
as halfe a pound, one pound, or three quarters of a pound: As for example, Take Mallowes, Violets, Al∣thaea, leaves of Willow, water Lillies, seethe them, and put to the decoction Cassia fistula, Sugar, oyle of Vio∣lets, and of Roses, which profiteth much in Strangury. The manner of giving a Glister is thus; when it is strain∣ed and cooled sufficiently, you shall have the pipe rea∣dy, with a bladder and a corke fitted to the pipe, with a thred to pull it out when you have put up the pipe, then stop the pipe with the corke, and poure the decoction into the bladder, and tie the bladder fast, and let the Pa∣tient put it up into his fundament, lying on his bed, on his right side, and nothing about his belly to gird it, then pull out the corke by the thred, and with the hand by little and little crush up the Glister, and let him re∣taine it about halfe an houre if he can.