"Sternutatory" Quotes from Famous Books
... thereby becoming intoxicated. Now the first account is suspiciously like a book-story of Oriental hashish-taking.—the second has no implication of smoking at all, while the third describes nothing but the process of taking a sternutatory. Indeed this last account is clearly based on a book account, in which there was a play on the Arabic words tubb[a]q "styptic" and tabaq "table." Ramon Pane, when he tells of Indians sniffing ... — The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various |