Take common rock salt, as used for salting down pork or beef, dry in
an oven, then pound it fine and mix with spirits of turpentine in
equal parts; put it in a rag and wrap it around the parts affected; as
it gets dry put on more, and in twenty-four hours you are cured. The
felon will be dead.
Or purchase the herb of stramonium at the druggist's; steep it and
bind it on the felon; as soon as cold, put on new, warm herbs. It will
soon kill it, in a few hours at least.
Or saturate a bit or grated wild turnip, the size of a bean, with
spirits of turpentine, and apply it to the affected part. It relieves
the pain at once; in twelve hours there will be a hole to the bone,
and the felon destroyed; then apply healing salve, and the finger is
well.
Another Way to Cure a Felon: Fill a tumbler with equal parts of fine
salt and ice; mix well. Sink the finger in the centre, allow it to
remain until it is nearly frozen and numb; then withdraw it, and when
sensation is restored, renew the operation four or five times, when it
will be found the disease is destroyed. This must be done before pus
is formed.
A simple remedy for felons, relieving pain at once, no poulticing, no
cutting, no "holes to the bone," no necessity for healing salve, but
simple oil of cedar applied a few times at the commencement of the
felon, and the work is done.