Drawing ointment. Who remembers it?

Remembered the name of the yellow sealking wax type salve. Glickens Salve., as I recall from MANY MANY years ago.
Splendid for drawing out splinters, and once the heat wa sover, less painful thatn digging with a needle!

I can remember buying some stuff called Lion Ointment. It was good for all kinds of things.

I agree with SuDonim, mag sulph.

One of my little fingers got on infection along side the nail. Slightly painful, but red and swelling showed the infection. Came to mind about this thread.
THEN.....I remembered a very basic 'drawing' technique for such infections and have been soaking that finger every few hours in a small bowl of hot water with lots of salt in it.
Even this first day, the effect is almost miraculous, and I should think that within 48 hours will be totally healed.

Salt is a wondrous healing compound - best way of treating any minor cut/would or infection.

I have tried to buy Golden Eye ointment, it's sold out everywhere. When I asked in Boots, the pharmacist told me she had sold the last one to the woman in front of me.
The power of Gransnet! ?

Long ago doctors believed in a "laudable pus" . A laudable pus which forms around a foreign body will flush out the foreign body when the pus evacuates.

Bread poultice i.e. starch is good for "drawing out" the products of inflammation but I doubt any ointment will remove a foreign body.