An apparatus for use in administering a particulate medicament to a biological subject's airway, the apparatus including an inlet that in use is in fluid communication with a supply of positive pressure gas, an outlet that in use is in fluid communication with the subject's airway to deliver the positive pressure gas thereto and a medicament supply that provides a dose of particulate medicament so that the particulate medicament is entrained in a gas flow from the inlet to the outlet, thereby delivering the particulate medicament to the subject's airway.