A Purging Glyster.
Take of the Decoction for Glysters 12 ounces; Mixture for Glysters 3 ounces, mix.
The Title sets forth its use.
I am of Opinion, that Glyster (notwithstanding the valve of the Colon, which hinders their corporal Ascent any higher) may purge not only the Rectum, and Colon, but all the upper Guts also. For the peristaltic Motion once begun in the lower ones, may very easily (and useth to) be continued successively up, even to the Pylorus it self, and by that means the Execrements are born downwards, and squeez'd forwards, through the whole Tract of the Intestines; and this especially in those, whose Guts being wove up of fine-spun Fibrillae, are touchy and irritable, and therefore easily purged.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710