18th Century Enema Syringes

These 18th century syringes can be seen in a show case of the Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, inside the Institute of Pharmacy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels (Bd du Triomphe, B-1050).

Used and abused from 15th to 19th Century, they served to insert in the rectum various kinds of laxatives¹.

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Footnotes

1. See M.Vanhaelen - R.Vanhaelen-Fastré, Plantes d'autrefois, médicaments d'aujourd'hui, Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Bruxelles 2005, pp. 108 ss.