Gulliver's Travels

What was the ointment used on Gulliver for?

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The ointment was used to take way the sting from the arrows.

But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleasant to the smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.

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Gulliver's Travels