Sneezing

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respiratory reflex

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• The medical name for sneezing is sternutation.
• Sneezing is a natural biological response to an irritant in the nose.
• Among peoples who have not emerged from savagery, or whose intellectual equipment, in spite of contact with superior races, is still meagre in the extreme, sneezing is an omen whose significance they dare not disallow.
• But among most uncivilized peoples sneezing is placed in the category of paroxysmal diseases, and reckoned to be of demoniac origin.
• Sneezing is a reflex.

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