The Claude Moore Health Sciences library at the University of Virginia has some wonderfully interesting Roman artifacts including these beauties. They’re enema syringes of a sort! Made out of metal and discovered in Pompeii, in the House of the surgeon there. How interesting that this article doesn’t even touch on the fact that these were also excavated from the baths as well!
The Egyptians have well documented recipes and details for the use of enemas to cure physical ailments. The Pharaoh actually had a leig referred to as the “Guardian of the Anus”. Where do I find one of those?? They have since appeared in texts from Shakespeare to Gulliver Travels!
The medical and public community no longer promotes enemas in the way it once did. However, there is still information and studies out there about the effectiveness. One such article can be found online here.
There is a lot of information out there about the medical use and health proponents of enemas, all you need do is a google search for “enema history” and you’ll come up with over 4 million hits.

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