Health and Beauty

1860

Judkins' Ointment

This ointment has been long celebrated through Ohio and the Eastern States. It was invented and put out by an old Doctor of that name, whose family took to the profession of medicine as naturally as ducks to water. I obtained it of one of the sons, who is practicing, at Malaga, Ohio, from whom I also obtained Landolphi's and his own method of curing cancer, and he always uses this ointment to heal cancers and all other sores.

Take 1 pt. of linseed oil, and 1 oz. of sweet oil, and boil them in a kettle on coals for nearly 4 hours, as warm as you can; then have pulverized and mixed, borax, 1-2 oz.; red lead, 4 oz., and sugar of lead, 1 1-2 oz.; remove the kettle from the fire and thicken in the powder; continue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then stir in 1 oz. of spirits of turpentine; and now take out a little, letting it get cold, and if not then sufficiently thick to spread upon thin soft linen, as a salve, you will boil again until this point is reached.

He says, and I have no doubt of it, that it is good for all kinds
of wounds, bruises, sores, burns, white swellings, rheumatisms,
ulcers, sore breasts, and even where there are wounds on the
inside, it has been used with advantage, by applying a plaster
over the part.