vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was formerly applied to raw indolent ulcers as a glutinous astringent, and most useful vulnerary.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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 William Thomas Fernie
In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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 George William Septimus Piesse
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
