vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 part of the tea is in its nature particularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines are requisite.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
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 William Thomas Fernie
Soap is allowed to be cleansing, attenuating, opening, resolving, sweetening; it is pectoral, vulnerary, diuretic, and hath other good qualities; which are also found in tar water....
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
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
