Enema Contention

This was wide-spread in the fifties to control misbehavior in children.

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A correlation was made between children’s unwanted behavior and constipation, the rest became history. Hundreds of thousands of children if not millions were subjected to enemas to treat their misbehavior. The observed improvement in behavior was more due to the exhaustion of the child as an enema taxes the body so…