smelling salts
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George Kittle, the 49ers All-Pro tight end, jumped on an NFL Network broadcast to proclaim that smelling salts were crucial to his performance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL’s lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
The noted Roman naturalist and historian was indeed an early expert in fermentation, yet he also wrote about “sal ammoniac” — yes, smelling salts — in his encyclopedic work “Natural History,” published in 79 A.D.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
In the business of the worst moment, there may be unanimity, just as soon as the effects of the smelling salts and the large brandies kick in.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
Every so often she’d lift a vial and swirl it, then walk to Miss Peregrine and pass it under her beak—much the way smelling salts are waved under the nose of someone who’s fainted.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
