MEDICAL VIRTUES OF ONIONS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1427, 8 February 1888, Page 5

MEDICAL VIRTUES OF ONIONS.

A mother wrote: — "Once a week in« variably, and it was generally when we had cold meat minced, I 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 of 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 were they encouraged to eat with their bread and butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who told me 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." This having fallen under the eye of an experienced physician, he wrote as follows : This ought to be published in letters of gold, and hung up beside the table, so that the children could read it, and remind their parents that no family ought to be without onions the whole year round. Plant old onions in, the autumn, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the

spring than by spring planting. Give children of all ages a few of them raw as soon as they are fit to be eaten. Do not miss treating them to raw onions three or four times a week. When they get too large or too strong to be eaten raw, then boil or roa3t ihera. During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria or similar contagious diseases prevail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week Onions are invigorating and prophylasHc beyond description. Farther,! challenge the medical fraternity, or any ot'>' r, to point out a place where children hwa died from diptheria or scarlatina, anginosa, &c, where onions were freely used.