Onions lor Diphtheria
♦ Why don't they use onions ! For goodness' sake why dont' they use onions ! Where do they live 1 I will go up there to-day and tell them to use onions I" Such were the exclaraa- 1 tions of our mother when we reported one day at dinner that a child of G. W. Dudley was dead, and the whole family, including himself, alarmingly sick with diphtheria. Mother was M moved to these earnest and interested expressions by a firm belief that she knows of several lives saved by the use of onions in diptheria, one being our sister. In these case 3 raw onions were placed in a bandage and beaten into a pulp, the cloths containing onions, juice and all, being them bound about the ears. Renewals may be made as often as the mass becomes dry. In the cases noticed the result was almost magical ; deadly pain yielded in a short time to sleepy comfort. It is to be hoped that this remedy will have a wide enough trial to fully test its usefulness. — Scientific American.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 125, 19 April 1892, Page 3
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