Antipyretic suppositories aren't used because they're "easier" than pills or such, they get used for working faster and 'cause you can't throw up your medicine before you even get any use out of it. This can be pretty important in the case of high fevers, unless you'd prefer brain damage or death in the more severe fever cases. This girl's fever didn't sound quite that bad, so the faster acting bit of things was probably not strictly necessary but it would still offer the patient some relief even a bit sooner. As for the other bit about potentially throwing it up, that was exactly the reason this commoner pharmacist was looking for help to begin with. His daughter couldn't keep the medicine he gave her down, by the look of it.In my house if you couldn't take the pills as a kid, cus they were difficult, you would take the chew-able or liquid medicine. Suppositories never crossed our minds.