vulnerary

Example Sentences

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds.

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

Soap is allowed to be cleansing, attenuating, opening, resolving, sweetening; it is pectoral, vulnerary, diuretic, and hath other good qualities; which are also found in tar water....

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

It has derived these names from the consolidating and vulnerary qualities attributed to the plant, from confirmo, to strengthen together, or the French, comfrie.

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