vulnerary

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

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

Agrimony was at one time included in the London Materia Medica as a vulnerary herb.

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

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