insufflator

• First he took from it a small insufflator, or powder-blower, with which he blew a cloud of light yellow powder over the table around the remains of the clock. —  John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
• He will be back presently to see you and arrange about the post-mortem Then," said Thorndyke, "we will not disturb the body till he comes, except to take the temperature and dust the dagger-hilt He took from his bag a long, registering chemical thermometer and an insufflator or powder-blower. —  John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
• One of the best anæsthetic applications is orthoform powder, introduced by means of the ordinary laryngeal insufflator. —  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
• He took from his bag a long, registering chemical thermometer and an insufflator or powder-blower. —  John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
• The off-side footboard occupied his attention specially, and when he had scrutinized minutely the part opposite the fatal compartment, he walked slowly from end to end with his eyes but a few inches from its surface, as though he was searching for something Near what had been the rear end he stopped, and drew from his pocket a piece of paper; then, with a moistened finger-tip he picked up from the footboard some evidently minute object, which he carefully transferred to the paper, folding the latter and placing it in his pocket-book He next mounted the footboard, and, having peered in through the window of the sealed compartment, produced from his pocket a small insufflator or powder-blower, with which he blew a stream of impalpable smoke-like powder on to the edges of the middle window, bestowing the closest attention on the irregular dusty patches in which it settled, and even measuring one on the jamb of the window with a pocket-rule. —  John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman

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