vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
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In some of them indeed Recourse may be had to the sweet Vapours of some vulnerary Herbs in hot Water, with a little Oil of Turpentine, as directed Nº.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
For these purposes as a vulnerary, the Calendula owes its introduction and first use altogether to homoeopathic methods, as signally valuable for healing wounds, ulcers, burns, and other breaches of the skin surface.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Agrimony was at one time included in the London Materia Medica as a vulnerary herb.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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
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
