insufflation
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“The young people marry, the old remember their youth. Drone and melody of village cycle: a little vigour is piped into the heart, an insufflation of warm memory.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020
They’re dead — they haven’t got that insufflation, the breath of life.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012
Letzerich recommended the insufflation of quinia twice daily, using the quinia muriate with potassium bicarbonate and gum-arabic.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The insufflation tube appears to have been left out, and there are no drones to be seen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
At that time, particularly in France, the main reliance was had on the internal administration of cinchona and the insufflation into the throat of alum.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
