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

This is usually done by the physician, as is, also, the insufflation of iodoform.

From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various

The finely-prepared glaze was applied to the clay vessels, before they had been fired, either by dipping, by painting, or by insufflation; and then glaze and body were fired together at a very high temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Forchheimer7 reports 97 cases of whooping cough treated by the insufflation of the quinia muriate; of the 97 cases, 52 were females, 45 males—the youngest three weeks, the oldest nine years old.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various