vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Hugh Thomson
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 Robert Walsh
This herb is the _Stratiotes chiliophullos _of the Greek botanists, by whom it was valued as an excellent astringent and vulnerary.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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
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
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
