When the Jonquils Bloom Again, 5th Edition

Millions of enemas were ordered by caring family physicians prior to 1950 to treat over 100 different conditions. Almost everyone had them. Mothers were taught, before bringing their babies home from the hospital, how to give enemas. Now they are rarely, if ever, recommended by corporate medical doctors, even though not one scientific article was published to justify the change---Enemas don't result in profits to medical corporations. They only help the patients. An enema nozzle going in stimulates one of the most pleasure sensitive zones of the body, more so in vibrating as water flows through it, then as peristaltic waves push back as the colon fills, and a steady wall of pressure as the colon is filled completely. Small chemical enemas? No. These cause very little of these feelings and can irritate the bowel. We are discussing good enemas, two to four quarts, with a little baking soda---or more, enough to fill the colon. The enemas as usually given for the last few hundred years before the small chemical enemas existed. Good enemas take up to 15 minutes to give, with three to five pauses while the nurse pinches the hose and encourages the patient to hold on like a four-year-old begging to go potty in Walmart until her Momma rushs her to the toilet. Begging during peristaltic waves is common at any age during administration. After the colon is full. 5 to 15 minutes after administration urgency passes as the body absorbs enough water to ease the tension, making it safe to rush for the toilet. These enemas were universal prior to 1950, usually followed by euphoria, an inner cleanness, a sense of well-being and many positive physiological, healthful results. They are background to this novel. a young girl with irritable bowel syndrome in the 1940s having enemas from her mother, along with dietary corrections, recovers from her condition. After she gets used to the enemas, she finds the gentle stimulation and care something desirable, something not talked about in polite society, something she wants to talk about. she talks, with trepidation, to her boyfriend in high school, after her first romantic encounter, a session of kissing under a big oak in the park during their first picnic, and is little-miss-red-ears, when he comes to see her the next day when she has a cold and is having enemas as part of her treatment. He knows how she feels about the enemas The book is a novel, a saga, a love story of two sisters, their family and their lovers, with background--- their suffering under the racial prejudice and experiences of the first half of the 20th century in the United States, a murder, a World War II hero, a scientist with Ashberger's syndrome, and family---loving family, set in South Carolina, a college town; and Pennsylvania, a mill town, with a mother who teaches Sunday school and one father who is an immigrant farmer, another who is a lead man in the plant, and another who is a Chiropractor---and villains much higher placed in society and members of the Klan.A good read, 577 pages with slices-of-life from before WWI through WWII and beyond. The use of corporal correction during that period is covered, both the good and bad. Done right pain can teach. Done wrong it can harm---it's a simple as most people think---and complicated enough to require some understanding of neurology and physiology to fully understand. The book is moral, two swear words in the entire book, enemas clinically given by nurses, an aunt, a mother and a husband. Only one fully sexual scene is a wedding night, two virgins teaching each other, one having spent weeks reading up on what he is supposed to do, the other having been taught to do whatever he tells her to do once they are married. They start kneeling before their bed in prayer---a wedding night made in heaven.