vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
In old times the Water figwort was famous as a vulnerary, both when used externally, and when taken in decoction.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
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
Many others may be made, of nearly the same Virtues, with all the vulnerary Herbs, and even with the Faltranc.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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
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 Salisbury, William
