Bates Salve

No never heard of that Sarnia if I remember right we used Germelene

TCP in my house, boy did that make it sting.

Here is a recipe which might be similar:

wellnessmama.com/remedies/black-drawing-salve/

In the large village where I was brought up, the chemist had "white medicine" for stomachs, "brown medicine" for chests AND "amb'lance ointment" for all wounds, because "it was as good as getting an amb'lance".
It was only as an adult that the sheer absence of logic struck me, but I think everyone else thought it a good joke!

I think my mum used Dettol for everything 😂

We had a lump of butter put on everything

It was TCP in our house.

TCP, Dettol and/or salt water when I was a child.

Whiskey on toothache, hot bag of salt on earache,
Dettol or tcp for cleaning wounds, whiskey dabbed on for toothache…. Syrup of figs for toilet issues, arrowroot for the runs

My dad laughingly recommend ‘ A wire brush and Dettol’ for most everything

My grandad usually offered to "saw it off and sew a button on" 🤣

No, I don't remember it.

I do remember something called New-Skin which my Dad thought was wonderful. He was a very caring Dad but used this New-Skin with enthusiasm and oh, did it sting and hurt.
It was supposed to seal the cut, kill germs and used instead of plasters.

I think it's still sold and should be banned on grounds of cruelty to children!

crazyH

I think my mum used Dettol for everything 😂

My Mum favoured Dettol, diluted, then a plaster.

Syrup of figs for toilet issues I hate figs to this day.

Mr T Bates Salve was produced in Hull in the 1850s and when he died his son-in-law took the recipe to Australia where it was very popular and did not cease production until the mid 1900s. I was given a jar of black drawing ointment by a Salvation Army nurse in Africa which sounds very similar, brilliant at getting long imbedded splinters to miraculously rise to the surface. I wish I still had a jar, it must have lasted ten or more
years.

My mother used TCP and I always have a bottle for my numerous garden inflicted cuts.

I have never encountered it either, we used TCP. You have brought back memories of my father using sealing wax though.

TCP and Germaline was used by my Mother.

Gin

Mr T Bates Salve was produced in Hull in the 1850s and when he died his son-in-law took the recipe to Australia where it was very popular and did not cease production until the mid 1900s. I was given a jar of black drawing ointment by a Salvation Army nurse in Africa which sounds very similar, brilliant at getting long imbedded splinters to miraculously rise to the surface. I wish I still had a jar, it must have lasted ten or more
years.

My mother used TCP and I always have a bottle for my numerous garden inflicted cuts.

That's the stuff although it was in the form of a stick rather than a jar. It is interesting you describe it as 'drawing' because it certainly cleaned out any foreign body like grit and I don't remember ever having an infected cut either.

Other posters have reminded me that my mother used Mag Salve (magnesium sulphate) to draw out splinters and the like. She'd put it on the offending area and cover it with a plaster. You could actually feel it drawing and it never failed to extract the foreign body. It was in a small, round tin and was a thick paste which I believe was white.

Callistemon213

No, I don't remember it.

I do remember something called New-Skin which my Dad thought was wonderful. He was a very caring Dad but used this New-Skin with enthusiasm and oh, did it sting and hurt.
It was supposed to seal the cut, kill germs and used instead of plasters.

I think it's still sold and should be banned on grounds of cruelty to children!

I applied New Skin on my children's cuts and grazes until I used it on myself and realised how much it b****y hurt!!
Never again.

Awful stuff, Sparklefizz!

I remember a kaolin poultice being applied to my knee to draw the nastiness out of a wound. Are they used nowadays?

flappergirl

Other posters have reminded me that my mother used Mag Salve (magnesium sulphate) to draw out splinters and the like. She'd put it on the offending area and cover it with a plaster. You could actually feel it drawing and it never failed to extract the foreign body. It was in a small, round tin and was a thick paste which I believe was white.

Still used!

Trouble with TCP though is that everyone for miles around knows you’ve used it. 👃