Olive oil 1 lb.
Bees’ wax 3 oz.
Palm oil 2 oz.
Melt over a slow fire, and continue stirring until cold.
For common purposes hogs’ lard makes a good simple ointment, but becomes
rancid by keeping. The simple ointment may be readily converted into a
detergent, a digestive, or an astringent, by the addition of red
precipitate, verdigris, or blue vitriol finely powdered, finely powdered
alum, superacetate of lead (sugar of lead), or a solution of subacetate
of lead.
The following is a very useful ointment for chapped heels, harness
galls, &c.