vulnerary

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

They used it first, as Pownall the local historian tells you, "as a vulnerary and abstersive," and healed wounds with it; then some labourers accidentally drank it, and Epsom's fortune was made.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

By virtue of its properties as a vulnerary it has also been called Consolida; but the daisy is the true Consolida minor.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

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 Walsh, Robert

The hardened juice of a euphorbiaceous tree, Croton draco, a resin resembling kino, is the sangre del drago or dragon’s blood of the Mexicans, used by them as a vulnerary and astringent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various