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Beaut words: Vulnerary

Used to promote the healing of wounds, as herbs or other remedies. a remedy for wounds. Citations for vulnerary She was now in an apartment of the castle, anxiously superintending the preparation of vulnerary herbs, to be applied to the wounded ...Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, 1819 Formerly country people cultivated Comfrey in their gardens for its virtue in wound healing, and the many local names of the plant testify to its long reputation as a vulnerary herb ...Maud Grieve, A Modern Herbal, 1931

WORDS: Boustrophedon

[boo-struh-feed-n, -fee-don] [noun] An ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right.