vulnerary

Example Sentences

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Many others may be made, of nearly the same Virtues, with all the vulnerary Herbs, and even with the Faltranc.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Geoffroy esteems them cephalic, sudorific, vulnerary, anti-maniacal, anti-epileptic, and alexiteral.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William