vulnerary

Example Sentences

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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Piesse, George William Septimus

Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds.

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

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

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

As a vulnerary, tobacco was used by the Indians, and physicians say that it promotes the cicatrization and healing of inveterate ulcers.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert