sternutatory
Americanadjective
noun
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sternutatories
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sternutatory
1610–20; < Late Latin sternūtātōrius, equivalent to sternūtā ( re ) ( see sternutation) + -tōrius -tory 1
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Sneezing or Sternutatory Substances.—The last class, the sternutatory substances, produced the familiar sneezing effect which was accompanied by intense pain and irritation of the nose, throat, and respiratory channels.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Victor Lefebure
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 Honor? Bourguignon
My friend stretched himself on the thick grass, and when his pipe was exhausted went fast asleep, and snored with great precision and power to a mild sternutatory accompaniment by Mr. McGrath and Pete.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
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 William Salisbury
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 Moses Stuart
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 James Sands Elliott
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 Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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