From the September 17, 1909 New York Times:

“A sneezing fit, which opened an old wound in his wrist, almost cost the life of Frank Genole of 48 Union Street, Brooklyn, yesterday morning. He attended the Mardi Gras at Coney Island on Wednesday night, and while there some one threw some confetti at him, with which, it is believed, snuff had been mixed.

On his way home Genole began to sneeze and kept it up until early yesterday morning. Then he discovered that a deep cut in his left wrist, caused by an accident some time ago, had been opened by the violence of his sneezing. Members of the family, after trying in vain to stop the flow of blood, had him taken to Long Island College Hospital. The physicians there ended Genole’s sneezing and sewed up the wound, stopping the bleeding. Genole had become very weak from the loss of blood.”