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wglb
"Making you grateful for modern medicine."
0db532a0
Not just a lemonade enema, but even more perverse: An enema made with lemonade thrown up by a nurse.
moron4hire
I don't think that was what that meant. I think the "throw up" part was in reference to the administering of the enema itself.
codewritinfool
I don't believe that is what "throw up a clyster" means. If you google it, that particular phrasing is not uncommon to this story. To me, from context (I have no special knowledge), "throw up a clyster" means to mix a clyster, not regurgitate it.
benj111
I'm guess its like knocking up (a clyster)... Which doesn't mean getting it pregnant.
[dead] rossdavidh
I am so not clicking on that link.
[dead] _eht
It’s OK, you’re not on Reddit anymore.
trhway
Sounds like it allowed to avoid dehydration. Probably not the worst way of doing it [IANAD]
benj111
I think the first comment in the article explains it.

Its basically an IV, getting in fluids when they can't be administered orally.

IdiocyInAction
> Before the Suicide Act of 1961 it was illegal to kill oneself.

That's certainly interesting. I wonder if it carried the death penalty..

LifeLiverTransp
Avoid rectal ginger ale. Horse trader secrets should not be applied to patients.