vulnerary

Example Sentences

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

By virtue of its properties as a vulnerary it has also been called Consolida; but the daisy is the true Consolida minor.

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

Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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

We afterward learned that this gum was produced by the apple tree, and our surgeon procured some of it, and used it as a vulnerary balsam with great success.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert