By virtue of its properties as a vulnerary it has also been called. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Each of these was applied as a vulnerary, not to sloughing sores, but to fresh cut wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It was formerly applied to raw indolent ulcers as a glutinous astringent, and most useful vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
This part of the tea is in its nature particularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines are requisite. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
Capable of being voiced or spoken. vulnery I couldn't find "vulnery" specifically, but I may have misspelled it when I jotted it down in my notes and really meant "vulnerary,"which means having to do with wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
This may be given beneficially for chronic catarrhs of the lungs, the bowels, or the urinary passages, Dr. Tuthill Massy considered the St. John's Wort, by virtue of its healing properties for injuries of the spinal cord, and its dependencies, the vulnerary "arnica" of the organic nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The infusion is diuretic, antiscorbutic, and vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Lemery says it is an antiscorbutic, aperient, and vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
This plant was a popular vulnerary and astringent once in great repute. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
It is vulnerary and soothing, when applied as a poultice to ulcers, burns, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Rottboll, after Sprengel, says it is a vulnerary, employed in some countries to arrest flooding. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The gum itself is esteemed a great vulnerary; and purges moderately those who are full of bilious, or gross humors. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton] Reference
This plant enjoyed great reputation at one time, and was said to possess sudorific, vulnerary, antiepileptic, and antihydrophobic virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
To agglutinate or heal wounds; to which end lint is very ferviceable, if fpread with fome digeftive ointment, baliam, or vulnerary liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopædia britannica;] Reference
We afterward learned that this gum was produced by the apple tree, and our surgeon procured some of it, and used it as a vulnerary balsam with great success. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
They have both male and female phyficians, who have been known to effect very furprifing cures, by means of their knowledge of the medicinal and vulnerary herbs». From Wordnik.com. [Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World] Reference
It is said the hogs in Jamaica when wounded rub the injured part against the tree so as to cover it with the gum, which possesses vulnerary properties; hence its name. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
It was said to be emetic and purgative, useful in hernia, and in arresting the vomiting of blood, and was regarded as an excellent vulnerary in moderating fluxes, diarrhoea, and dysentery. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that if fever could be averted, of which the great bleeding rendered her little apprehensive, and if the healing balsam of. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Dr. Hughes (Brighton) says: "The Marigold is a precious vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
A vulnerary, both when used externally, and when taken in decoction. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It is vulnerary and detergent. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
It is emetic, diuretic, and vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
A vulnerary, and remedy for wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
I told her a few vulnerary herbs and repose —”. From Wordnik.com. [The Castle of Otranto] Reference
The flowers and leaves are medicinal as analgesic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, aromatic, astringent, cholagogue, digestive, diuretic, expectorant, nervine, resolvent, sedative, stimulant, vermifuge and vulnerary. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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