vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
A preparation from this plant known as the "green oil of charity," is still in request as a vulnerary, and remedy for wounds.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
This part of the tea is in its nature particularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines are requisite.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
The gum itself is esteemed a great vulnerary; and purges moderately those who are full of bilious, or gross humors.
From An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton by Antoine Simon Maillard
Geoffroy esteems them cephalic, sudorific, vulnerary, anti-maniacal, anti-epileptic, and alexiteral.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Wound′wort, a name applied to several plants of popular repute as vulneraries, as the kidney-vetch, &c.: a plant of genus Stachys, the marsh or clown's woundwort.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The Leaves.—They have a subtile subacrid taste, and are recommended as vulneraries, and in asthmas and hectic fevers, and such disorders as are occasioned by drinking cold liquors when the body has been much heated.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
