Illustration of a douching apparatus from an 1882 medical handbook.
From A Clinical hand-book on the diseases of women
By William Symington Brown, http://books.google.com/books?id=Vg5fVD3HBQUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=douche+women&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0rW6UOmmBKnk2wWAxYCQDw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false