in Pharmacy, medicines which when snuffed up the nose promote a discharge of mucus from that part. See Materia Medica Index.

Errhines prepared of cephalic herbs are of singular service in oppressive pains of the head, a hemicrania, lethargic disorders, weakness of memory, stuffings of the head, and coryza, mucous defluxions of the eyes, drowsiness, vertigoes, and in cases where the malignant humours generated by the lues venerea are lodged in the membranes of the nostrils.