Health and Beauty

1860

Green Ointment

Take white pine turpentine and lard 1-2 lb. each; honey, and beeswax, 1-4 lb. each; melt all together and stir in one 1-2 oz, of very finely pulverized verdigris. In deep wounds and old sores this works admirably, it keeps out proud flesh and heals beyond all calculations, keeping up a healthy discharge. It was used on a horse, which had run upon a fence stake, the stake entering under the shoulder-blade and penetrating 18 inches along side of the ribs; the ointment was introduced by stifening several thicknesses of linen with warm bees wax, then smearing the ointment upon the tent, which kept
the outside from healing until it healed from the bottom, and thus
saved the horse which everybody said must die; and of course everybody always knows.

I give another green ointment, varying somewhat from the first, obtained of a gentleman in Jamestown N. Y., who was selling it in large quantities, and as he uses the spirits of turpentine instead of the white pine as that frequently is hard to get, and as by many this will be preferred:

Take honey and beeswax each, 1-2 lb.; spirits of turpentine, 1
oz.; wintergreen oil, and laudanum each, 2 oz.; verdigris, finely pulverized, 1-4 oz. lard, 1 1-2 lbs., mix by a stove fire, in a copper kettle, heating slowly. He adds, it cures all sores on human or horse flesh.