Our troops at the front should share in the slut of onions we are enjoying. The writer of an article published 30 years ago on onions as a prophylatic against cholera says:—"An old officer who served during the whole of the campaign in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington told me that the British Army never was as healthy as at that period, from eating large quantities of onions and g'"~ "" " '"~ J: cinal virtues of the 01 out in the 17th century by Nicholas Culpepper. 'lt has been held by divers country people,' he wrote, 'a great preservative against infection io eat onions fasting, with bread and salt,""
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 5
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109Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1915, Page 5
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