STERNUTATIVE, or STERNUTATORY, a medicine proper to produce sneezing. Sternutatives are of two kinds, gentle and violent. Of the first kind are betony, sage, marjoram, tobacco, and the whole fashionable tribe of snuffs. Of the latter kind are euphorbium, white hellebore, pellitory, &c. Sternutatives operate by their sharp pungent parts vellicating the inner membrane of the nose, which is exceeding sensible, and occasioning the serous matter contained in the glands of the nose, and in several sinuses situated in the base of the cranium and of the os frontis, to be expelled.