Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — Healthy Effect of Onions. Good Housekeeping. [ARTICLE]

Healthy Effect of Onions. Good Housekeeping.

It.is a pity that onions have the odor that they do, for their dietetic and medicinal qualities are excellent. Boiled and roasted onions are a good specific, for cold on the chest, a cough, a cold and a clogging of the bronchial tubes. A medical writer recommends the eating of young, raw onions by children three or four times a week, and of boiled and roasted onions when they get too strong to be eaten raw. Another writer says that “during unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and like contagious diseases prevail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week.” The effect of onions is invigorating and prophylactic in the extreme, and one physician goes so far as to say that the eating of onions lias actually prevented children from having diphtheria and scarlatina.