These days, someone getting an enema is fairly likely to be doing it for fetish fun. But back in the day? When it was medicine, and probably ineffective medicine at that? The average misery quotient was perhaps a lot higher. I think that’s where this artist was coming from, with his fanciful enema demons and their klyster cannon:

This could be a fully modern “Prepare your anus” meme!

Artwork from the Wellcome collection.

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