vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been principally celebrated as a vulnerary, whence its name; and in gargarisms for aphthae and inflammations of the fauces.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
They are recommended as vulnerary medicines, and in all cases where mild astringents or corroborants are proper.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
It is said the hogs in Jamaica when wounded rub the injured part against the tree so as to cover it with the gum, which possesses vulnerary properties; hence its name.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
In some of them indeed Recourse may be had to the sweet Vapours of some vulnerary Herbs in hot Water, with a little Oil of Turpentine, as directed Nº.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
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
