Editing Enema (section)

==== Written literature ====

In the [[Theatre of Dionysus|Dionysus]]' [[satyr play]] ''Limos'', [[Silenus]] attempts to give an enema to [[Heracles]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaw|first=Carl A.|date=2014|title=Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama|page=15|location=Oxford, England|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-995094-2}}</ref>

In [[Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Othello]]'' (Act II, Scene I) Iago says: "Yet again your fingers to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html|title=Othello, the Moore of Venice|author=William Shakespeare|date=1603|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref>

In [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]]' ''[[Don Quixote]]'', a narrative to Sancho includes "The Knight of the Sun ... bound hand and foot ... was administered a clyster of snow water and sand that almost disracted him"<ref>Friedenwald & Morrison, Part I:99</ref>

In the 17th century, satirists made physicians a favorite target, resembling [[Molière]]'s caricature whose prescription for anything was "clyster, bleed, purge," or "purge, bleed, clyster".<ref>Magner, ''A History of Medicine'':218</ref>

In Molière's play ''[[The Imaginary Invalid]]'', Argan, a severe [[hypochondriac]], is addicted to enemas as indicated by such lines as when Bĕralde asks, "Can't you be one moment without a purge?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-mercurian.com/2018/05/10/moliere-at-versailles/|title=?Molière at Versailles|author=Molière|date=2018-05-10|work=Theater in Translation|publisher=The Mercurian|access-date=2020-07-18}}</ref>

In [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the narrator notes, "Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema."<ref>{{cite book|last=Orwell |first=George |title=1984|year=1949|location=New York|publisher=[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace and Company]]|isbn=9780151660353|url=https://archive.org/details/1984orwe00orwe|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In [[Grace Metalious]]'s novel [[Peyton Place (novel)|''Peyton Place'']], the town doctor tells of "a young boy with the worst case of dehydration I ever saw. It came from getting too many enemas that he didn't need. Sex, with a capital S-E-X.".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/books/review/whats-it-like-reading-peyton-place-today.html|title=What's It Like Reading 'Peyton Place' Today?|author=Thomas Mallon |author2=Anna Holmes |date=2014-03-04|department=Book Review|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-18}}</ref> As a teenager, the boy enjoys receiving enemas from his mother.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://exlibrisregina.com/2016/09/20/my-return-to-peyton-place/|title=My Return to Peyton Place|author=R. Saint Claire|date=2016-09-20|work=Ex Libris Regina|publisher=R. Saint Claire|access-date=2019-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219184420/https://exlibrisregina.com/2016/09/20/my-return-to-peyton-place/|archive-date=February 19, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In [[Flora Rheta Schreiber]]'s book [[Sybil (Schreiber book)|''Sybil'']], Sybil's psychiatrist asks her "What's Mama been doing to you, dear?... I know she gave you the enemas."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/magazine/a-girl-not-named-sybil.html|title=A Girl Not Named Sybil |author=Debbie Nathan|date=2011-10-14|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|access-date=2019-04-21}}</ref>