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A nutrient enema, also known as feeding per rectum, rectal alimentation, or rectal feeding, is an enema administered to provide nutrition in cases where normal eating is not possible. In modern medicine, nutrient enemas have been superseded by tube feeding and parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding).
Doctor Willard Bliss prescribed this treatment to United States President James A. Garfield after his attempted assassination by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. Garfield died after a failed recovery on September 19, 1881.
In 1941, the U.S.' military manual for hospital diets prescribed use of nutrient enemas.
In 2014, when the United States Senate Intelligence Committee published the U.S. Senate report on CIA torture, an unclassified summary of its 6,000 page classified report on the CIA's use of torture, its previously unknown practices of brutally forced nutrient enemas on detainees who attempted hunger strikes and of "rectal rehydration" for punishment and torture became apparent.
The South Park episode "Red Hot Catholic Love" features a fictionalized, inaccurate depiction of rectal feeding followed by fecal vomiting.
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