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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12776, 21 October 1919, Page 7

So mo people sneeze for curious reasons, says “Tit Bits.” There is a clergyman who can never cross the road on a very hot day without carrying an umbrella. If ho does ho is immediately taken with a violent fit of sneezing. Another man is similarly affected by exposure to bright gas-light. Clergymen seem to bo particularly sensitive in this direction- Another wearer of the cloth used to sneeze whenever he came near to a dead hare. A similar case is that of a young man who could never go near a horse without sneezing. Peculiar odours have been known to cause sneezing. A chemist’s wife always sneezed when ipecacuanha was being used in the shop, and another person always found sneezing necessary whenever he entered a room where there violets. And there is an account of a. wellknown physician who was fond of chocolates, but could never eat one without suffering spasms of sneezing. Perhaps the most remarkable case m that of a man who, whenever he sees a picture Of a hayfield, immediately- proceeds to sneeze his head nearly Viff 1