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- noun Plural form of
glyster .
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Examples
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Then I made a glyster of eggs, salt, and sugar, together with butter and such herbs as I could think of upon a sudden; and in the space of a day and a night I gave him five such glysters, but all in vain, for his pains and sickness increased, and I began to repent me of my enterprise.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Chilese doctors used bleeding, blistering, emetics, cathartics, sudorifics, and even glysters.
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They let blood by means of a sharp flint fixed in a small stick; and for giving glysters they employ a bladder and pipe.
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Opiates and glysters had no effect, till repeated hot baths, and plasters of theriaca applied on his stomach, had relieved his body and intestines.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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