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
We afterward learned that this gum was produced by the apple tree, and our surgeon procured some of it, and used it as a vulnerary balsam with great success.
Many others may be made, of nearly the same Virtues, with all the vulnerary Herbs, and even with the Faltranc.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
As a vulnerary, tobacco was used by the Indians, and physicians say that it promotes the cicatrization and healing of inveterate ulcers.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
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
