Ox bile enemas

A friend sent me copies of some pages from a nursing manual which listed "ox bile" combined with saline as a laxative enema. (book title: A Complete System Of Nursing)

Online though it's always associated with the treatment of dysentery. Anyone ever heard of or taken an ox-bile enema for constipation?

OK, you win the prize for the weirdest recipe I have ever heard! 😁

An older Zity Library document titled "A Review of Victorian Discipline"( that I can no longer find) referred to British governesses giving children enemas of 1 pint of Ox Bile using a Clyster Syringe followed by the insertion of a butt plug. It also described giving them a 1:2:3 Enema consisting of 1 oz. of Turpentine, 2 oz. of Ox Bile and 3 oz. of Green Soap added to 2 qt. of hot water for severe cases of constipation.

DO NOT USE TURPENTINE IN AN ENEMA

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yes, I know it was in the OLD MERCK MANUAL and they used it in the past.

The purpose of the soap was to emulsify the turpentine.

It is dangerous.

Turpentine enema? What a terrible idea. Instant chemical colitis. The next stop is a colostomy.

Would love to have it done to me, but turpentine is so dumb and dangerous. You know a recipe is bad when it was used as a torture by the dictator Pinochet.