What does vulnerary mean?
Vulnerary means Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing..
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/ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i/ · adjective
Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing..
Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.
On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.
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Vulnerary means Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing..
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Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.
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