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Drawing ointment is a topical ointment which is supposed to draw things like splinters and glass shards out of the skin. A number of products are marketed as drawing ointments and they are of varying degrees of effectiveness when it comes to wound treatment. Medical evidence seems to suggest that drawing ointment does not literally pull foreign bodies out of the skin.
