Onions for Diphtheria
•' Why don't they uso onions ! For £<ioduess' sake why don't they use onions ! Whire do they live ? I will <>o up there today and tell them to use onions ?" Such were the exclamations of our mother when we reported >>ne day at dinner that a child of Ci. W. Dudley was dead, and the whole family, including" himself, alarmingly sick with diphtheria Mother was moved to the.*e tamest and interested expressions by a firm belief that she knows of several lives saved by the use ol onion? in diphtheria, one being our sis tor. In these cases raw onions were placed in a bandage and beaten into a pulp, the cloths containing onions, juice and all, being- then bound about the ears. Renewals may be maae as often as the mass becomes dry. In the cases noticed the result was almost magical ; deaoly 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 128, 26 April 1892, Page 2
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