Nay, rather a suppository.

For powdering his ears with quicksilver, and giving him suppositories of live eels, he is expert.

Cardan's nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories, sneezings, masticatories, nasals, cupping-glasses.

To provoke urine with aniseed, daucus, asarum, &c., and stools, if need be, by clysters and suppositories.

prescribes it once a day at least: where nature is defective, art must supply, by those lenitive electuaries, suppositories, condite prunes, turpentine, clysters, as shall be shown.

In this range, clysters and suppositories challenge a chief place, to draw this humour from the brain and heart, to the more ignoble parts.

" Piso enjoins ligatures, frictions, suppositories, and cupping-glasses, still without scarification, and the rest.

If costiveness offend in this, or any other of the three species, it is to be corrected with suppositories, clysters or lenitives, powder of senna, condite prunes, &c. [Symbol: Rx] Elect.

Yet I may be suffered to suggest to your correspondent, who has so kindly corrected me, that my paper was more in the suppository style than he seems to have imagined; and that I did not assert that Boswell, Savage, and Johnson, met at the latter's "house in Bolt Court, and discussed subjects of polite literature."

Go quickly, Mr. Flem, and prepare some suppositories and bring them back here.