So I just bought some Ichthammol ointment to try and draw out a
particularly stubborn doug fir splinter that broke off somewhere deep
in the joint on my index finger. I'm convinced it has gone underneath
a tendon or into the bone or something. The finger is pretty
swollen. Old wives tale says this salve works. Any of you old farts
use this? Looks and smells like roofing tar!

JP

Jay Pique wrote:

So I just bought some Ichthammol ointment to try and draw out a
particularly stubborn doug fir splinter that broke off somewhere
deep in the joint on my index finger. I'm convinced it has gone
underneath a tendon or into the bone or something. The finger is
pretty swollen. Old wives tale says this salve works. Any of you
old farts use this? Looks and smells like roofing tar!

JP

Yes it does work , if its gone as deep as you say though you need
proper medical treatment

On Apr 25, 11:46*am, Jay Pique wrote:
So I just bought some Ichthammol ointment to try and draw out a
particularly stubborn doug fir splinter that broke off somewhere deep
in the joint on my index finger. *I'm convinced it has gone underneath
a tendon or into the bone or something. *The finger is pretty
swollen. *Old wives tale says this salve works. *Any of you old farts
use this? *Looks and smells like roofing tar!

JP

It works real good for ~slightly~ embedded wood parts. If you cannot
see any part of the wood you need to dig it out in another manner,
especially if it's as bad as you say.

RP

On Apr 25, 11:59*am, "steve robinson"
wrote:
Jay Pique wrote:
So I just bought some Ichthammol ointment to try and draw out a
particularly stubborn doug fir splinter that broke off somewhere
deep in the joint on my index finger. *I'm convinced it has gone
underneath a tendon or into the bone or something. *The finger is
pretty swollen. *Old wives tale says this salve works. *Any of you
old farts use this? *Looks and smells like roofing tar!

JP

Yes it does work , if its gone as deep as you say though you need
proper medical treatment

If it is in the joint, it must be removed surgically. If it is in
there too long the body's defense will encapsulate the foreign object
and make you suffer for a long, long time. BTDT. I had a nice piece of
oak splinter that accordioned itself into the joint of my right index
finger. The superficial part of it had snapped under the skin so I dug
it out but obviously didn't get it all. 4 Months later that joint
wouldn't even bend without a nice shot of pain. Off to our awful
medical system where I was handled that same afternoon, by an expert,
for free.

"Robatoy" wrote in message
...
On Apr 25, 11:59 am, "steve robinson"
wrote:


If it is in the joint, it must be removed surgically. If it is in
there too long the body's defense will encapsulate the foreign object
and make you suffer for a long, long time. BTDT. I had a nice piece of
oak splinter that accordioned itself into the joint of my right index
finger. The superficial part of it had snapped under the skin so I dug
it out but obviously didn't get it all. 4 Months later that joint
wouldn't even bend without a nice shot of pain. Off to our awful
medical system where I was handled that same afternoon, by an expert,
for free.

Must be a terrible medical system if it took you 4 months of pain before you
decided it was worth going in for. ???

On Apr 26, 7:45*am, "Leon" wrote:
"Robatoy" wrote in message

...
On Apr 25, 11:59 am, "steve robinson"

wrote:

If it is in the joint, it must be removed surgically. If it is in
there too long the body's defense will encapsulate the foreign object
and make you suffer for a long, long time. BTDT. I had a nice piece of
oak splinter that accordioned itself into the joint of my right index
finger. The superficial part of it had snapped under the skin so I dug
it out but obviously didn't get it all. 4 Months later that joint
wouldn't even bend without a nice shot of pain. Off to our awful
medical system where I was handled that same afternoon, by an expert,
for free.


Leon:
Must be a terrible medical system if it took you 4 months of pain before you
decided it was worth going in for. * ???

LOL. okay smartypants. I tend to try to 'walk things off'. I have
nothing but excellent experiences with our healthcare system..
besides, I have connections. (SO and her troupe) :-)

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

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.

RP

Subject

When I was a kid, the stuff was known as "drawing salve".

Lew

"Jay Pique" wrote:

It now has
a place in my anit-sliver arsenal.

Consider adding an Xacto knife with the "pointy" blade to your kit.

Have kept an Xacto holder /W/ a blade cover along with a bottle of
betadine in my shop med kit for years.

Lew

On 4/26/2010 5:48 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

(my doctor will already accept cash at 50% the rate he charges to
the insurance company).

My daughter's hospital charged me 50% more for recent surgery than it
charges her insurance company, who refused to pay based on PEC ... and
no, there was no other hospital where the surgery could be performed.

Turned out not to be caused by PEC, and now it looks like I'm going to
be forced to sue both the insurance company and the hospital to get
reimbursed, if at all ... the lawyers have to dip their beaks, too
doncha know.

My optician _used_ to charge less for cash payers, but they stopped that
about ten years ago, and now just charge you top insurance prices.

IMO, and having lived in both era's, the problem is, and always has
been, at least since post WWII in this country, _INSURANCE_.

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On Apr 26, 6:23*pm, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:
Subject

When I was a kid, the stuff was known as "drawing salve".

Lew

Wow, they had that back then already?
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gdr

On 4/26/2010 6:20 PM, Robatoy wrote:
On Apr 26, 6:23 pm, "Lew wrote:
Subject

When I was a kid, the stuff was known as "drawing salve".

Lew

Wow, they had that back then already?
.
.
.
.
gdr

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

We used various combinations of a fresh piece of egg shell, soaking the
splinter finger in white vinegar, or a poultice of white bread boiled in
milk, to do any splinter "drawing".

Amazing what country folk did in the way of "health care" in the late
forties and fifties.

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KarlC@ (the obvious)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:33:43 -0700, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:


"Jay Pique" wrote:

It now has
a place in my anit-sliver arsenal.

Consider adding an Xacto knife with the "pointy" blade to your kit.

Have kept an Xacto holder /W/ a blade cover along with a bottle of
betadine in my shop med kit for years.

Lew




the best "digger out er" I found was a new sterile hyperemic needle
(25 GA works great)

Dave

Swingman wrote:
On 4/26/2010 6:20 PM, Robatoy wrote:
On Apr 26, 6:23 pm, "Lew wrote:
Subject

When I was a kid, the stuff was known as "drawing salve".

Lew

Wow, they had that back then already?
.
.
.
.
gdr

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

We used various combinations of a fresh piece of egg shell, soaking the
splinter finger in white vinegar, or a poultice of white bread boiled in
milk, to do any splinter "drawing".

Amazing what country folk did in the way of "health care" in the late
forties and fifties.


Treat a burn with egg white.

Stop a cut from bleeding by coating in fresh coffee grounds.

The one I really hated was the daily dose of cod liver oil - Mom lined
us up and pulled each little nose up to get the mouth opened and shoved
a spoonful of that crap in.

"Swingman" wrote:

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

Ever hear about the sparrow that drank a bottle of Hadacol?

Raped two eagles and took off after a B-29!

Those were the days......................

Lew

On 4/26/2010 7:17 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
"Swingman" wrote:

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

Ever hear about the sparrow that drank a bottle of Hadacol?

Raped two eagles and took off after a B-29!

Those were the days......................

My great aunt, Milli (Melee), a good catholic old maid of 80, after
drinking a bottle of Hadacol for her cold one Sunday morning, and after
listening to a Baptist preacher on the local radio, took off, on foot,
with her .410 pistol, to do him bodily harm.

She ended up in Pineville (at the time, Louisiana's nuthouse). The only
one in the family so incarcerated to date ... but maybe not the only one
deserving.


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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.

--
....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.
-- John Ruskin

On Apr 26, 10:25*pm, Swingman wrote:
On 4/26/2010 7:17 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:

"Swingman" wrote:

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

Ever hear about the sparrow that drank a bottle of Hadacol?

Raped two eagles and took off after a B-29!

Those were the days......................

My great aunt, Milli (Melee), a good catholic old maid of 80, after
drinking a bottle of Hadacol for her cold one Sunday morning, and after
listening to a Baptist preacher on the local radio, took off, on foot,
with her .410 pistol, to do him bodily harm.

That's some funny **** right there...


She ended up in Pineville (at the time, Louisiana's nuthouse). The only
one in the family so incarcerated to date ... but maybe not the only one
deserving.

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Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlC@ (the obvious)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:45:10 -0700, the infamous Doug Winterburn
scrawled the following:

Swingman wrote:
On 4/26/2010 6:20 PM, Robatoy wrote:
On Apr 26, 6:23 pm, "Lew wrote:
Subject

When I was a kid, the stuff was known as "drawing salve".

Lew

Wow, they had that back then already?
.
.
.
.
gdr

Hell, it was on the same shelf with Hadacol.

We used various combinations of a fresh piece of egg shell, soaking the
splinter finger in white vinegar, or a poultice of white bread boiled in
milk, to do any splinter "drawing".

Amazing what country folk did in the way of "health care" in the late
forties and fifties.


Treat a burn with egg white.

Stop a cut from bleeding by coating in fresh coffee grounds.

The one I really hated was the daily dose of cod liver oil - Mom lined
us up and pulled each little nose up to get the mouth opened and shoved
a spoonful of that crap in.

Try it now. I happily drink a gulp every morning. Nifty lemon-lime
flavoring. It's barely oily and has no fishy smell at all. I love
the new "molecularly distilled" stuff.

Nature's Answer, Liquid Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, Lemon Lime Flavor, 16
fl oz (480 ml) $14.94 at www.Iherb.com , my fave discount herb shop.

--
....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.
-- John Ruskin

Jay Pique wrote:

So I just bought some Ichthammol ointment to try and draw out a
particularly stubborn doug fir splinter that broke off somewhere deep
in the joint on my index finger. I'm convinced it has gone underneath
a tendon or into the bone or something. The finger is pretty
swollen. Old wives tale says this salve works. Any of you old farts
use this? Looks and smells like roofing tar!

JP

Used to use it when I was young. My folks swore by it. I don't know, I
guess it worked some of the time, it did help loosen things up.

If you've got swelling and aren't seeing the splinter, it may be time to
suck it up and visit a doctor. (No, I don't make that statement lightly, I
resist with every ounce of my being having to visit a doc, but sometimes you
just gotta do it)

--

There is never a situation where having more rounds is a disadvantage

Rob Leatham

On 4/26/2010 7:37 PM, Farmer Dave wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:33:43 -0700, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:


"Jay Pique" wrote:

It now has
a place in my anit-sliver arsenal.

Consider adding an Xacto knife with the "pointy" blade to your kit.

Have kept an Xacto holder /W/ a blade cover along with a bottle of
betadine in my shop med kit for years.

Lew




the best "digger out er" I found was a new sterile hyperemic needle
(25 GA works great)

A while back after dealing with a particularly recalcitrant splinter, I
got one of these
http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/Merchant/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=toolshop&Produ ct_Code=MS-SPLINT.XX.
The forceps are crap but the probe is excellent.