vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
All the citrine odors, verveine, vulnerary waters, Eau de Cologne, Eau de Portugal, Eau d'Arquebuzade, and lavender, can alone be brought to perfection by using the French spirit in their manufacture.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
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 Saunders, William
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 Smith, Hugh
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
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
