MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF ONIONS.
A mother writes :—“ Twice a-week invariably—and it was generally when we had cold meat minced—l gave the children a dinner which was hailed with delight and looked forward to ; this was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best medicine for expelling what most children suffer from - worms. Mine were kept, free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled onions' for dinner, but chives also they were conraged to eat with their bread ■ ana butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of chives in their gardens. It was a medical man who tough tine to eat boiled onions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the time, till I told him, that they were good for anything else. £A case is now under our own observation in which a rheumatic patient, an extreme sufferer, finds great relief from eating onions freely, either cooked or raw. He asserts that it is by no means a fancy, and he says so after having persistently tried Turkish baths, galvanism, and nearly all the potions and plasters that are advertised as certain alleviatives or cures.] —Hants Advertiser.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 421, 30 April 1879, Page 2
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203MEDICINAL EFFECTS OF ONIONS. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 421, 30 April 1879, Page 2
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