Historic Hood River
St. Jacobs Oil
2-3-2017
Notes
These products were advertised in The Hood River Glacier in 1894. St. Jacobs Oil, according to an 1894 medical journal, was:
- Turpentine with traces of camphor: 82.407%
- Ether: 10.000%
- Alcohol: 5.000%
- Carbolic Acid: 2.018%
- Capisicum: 0.400%
- Aconite: 0.013%
Aconite is an extract from monkshood or wolfbane, and is considered highly poisonous. It is used on poison darts. As they promise, “the Cure is Sure.”
Buzz
Looks like that Jacobs oil might solve some of my old age issues. And that Aconite could solve all of them.
L.E.
Aconite would work for me too. "It was the flying ointment of witches."
Very interesting to read about Aconite in the Homeopathic articles. Evidently it could have a calming effect, so I wonder if that was why it was used in a liniment. Kind of scary.
As for the chicken add…..my brother in law told about his FFA class using a caponizing tool to caponize a bunch of roosters. He said the roosters walked funny when they were done.
Arlen Sheldrake
happiness is regulations…..