sternutatory
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Origin of sternutatory
1610–20; < Late Latin sternūtātōrius, equivalent to sternūtā ( re ) ( see sternutation) + -tōrius -tory 1
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Pizarro found chewers in Peru, but it was in the country discovered by Cabral that the great sternutatory was originally found.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
E. D.—The odour of the fresh plant is rather unpleasant, and the taste acrid, herbaceous, and astringent; and the powdered leaves act as a strong sternutatory.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
If the running ceases, its return must be excited by injecting in the nostrils a spoonful of sternutatory vinegar or smelling salts.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
The French Physiological Classification;—Asphyxiating Substances;— Toxic Substances;—Chemicals or poison gases were either asphyxiating, toxic, lachrymatory, vesicant, or sternutatory.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor
Its effects as a sternutatory, i. e. as exciting to sneeze, are known to all.
From A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco by Stuart, Moses
Adjuvant measures are hot baths, poultices, inunctions, fumigations and sternutatories, and the use of certain herbs.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
From his theory of the action of the air through the nose on the contents of the ventricles of the brain is explained his use of sternutatories, and his belief in the efficacy of sneezing.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by Elliott, James Sands
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