On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:13:29 -0700 (PDT), the infamous RP
scrawled the following:

On Apr 26, 6:11*pm, Jay Pique wrote:
Follow-up...

So I applied the tar yesterday afternoon and again that night before
bed. *This morning the first thing I did in the shop was get out the
tweezers....and it came out pretty easily. *I'm not chalking it up
100% to the Ichthammol, but I definitely think it helped. *It now has
a place in my anit-sliver arsenal.

JP

Excellent! You got lucky Jay.

I've found that almost any greasy substance will work well as a
drawing salve for slivers of most substances. I used to use only
specific drawing salves or triple antibiotic ointment, but a few times
I've been out, so I put on some regular old Vaseline. It worked
extremely well, too. It may just be that anything which restricts
oxygen to the wound will encourage antibody/pus production.

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....in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should
not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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