vulnerary

Example Sentences

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the citrine odors, verveine, vulnerary waters, Eau de Cologne, Eau de Portugal, Eau d'Arquebuzade, and lavender, can alone be brought to perfection by using the French spirit in their manufacture.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

It was formerly applied to raw indolent ulcers as a glutinous astringent, and most useful vulnerary.

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

Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Here is wonderfull plenty of wild saffron, carthamus, and many vulnerary plants, now by me forgott.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John