contracted or erroneous form of STERNUTATORY.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 102. Put vinegre or mustard in his nose … And giffe hym som oþer sternutoriez.
1705. Phil. Trans., XXV. 1802. ’Tis not to be imagined, how Worms seated at the Basis of the Brain,… should be expelled by sternutories.
1842. Pritchiard in Penny Cycl., XXIII. 46/2. Sternutories are chiefly employed … either to restore suspended respiration, or to dislodge some foreign body.
1876. Dunglison, Med. Lex.
