vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believed also in the vulnerary ointment, which could cure wounds, not by application to the wound itself but to the weapon.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
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 Fernie, William Thomas
The Leaves.—These are recommended as aperient and vulnerary, as also in gouty and rheumatic pains.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
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 Fernie, William Thomas
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 Salisbury, William
