Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-14
G5e Smgrna Gmes,
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Jan. Il.
.MQTIcUIIlI1'0I.
Onions Cure for Typhoid Fever
and Dropsy.

Mr.. John r. Cox, a citizen Of Baltimore,
published the following communication In !
the Baltimore Anertcan a week or so since:
1.-THE melancholy death of W. Ii.
Worthinston, whose remains were inferred
in Friends Cemetery reminds me of neg
lected duty. Some time since gentleman
informed me he knew of several persons
who had been cured Of typhoid fever by
the application Of mashed raw onions
to the feet. Two patients were so i'll they
were not expected to live over few hours.
| Six large onions were pounded to pulp and
applied to the feet of the first patient. He
was relieved in short time, and got well.
| The second case was few weeks later and
/ the result equally satisfactory. The first
| opportunity | had, | tried it upon IA colored
| boy during one Of my visits to the house OF
! Reformation for Colored Children. He was
very i'll with typhoid fever. | named the
| matter to Gen. Horn, who Immediately
ordered the application. In few hours he
got asleep, rested we'll and recovered. The
next opportunity was that OF son OF
friend of mine in the treasury department
of the Custom House in our city. | called
to see him on business, whenhe informed ne
his son was very ILL., He said it was typhoid
pneumonia. lie had been dellrious for a
week or more, and required constant
watching, for fear he might do himself harm.
advised him to try the onions. lie did so
and thus speaks of 1t: Immediately on
j S application he began to improve, and
continued until he finally recovered. On
one occasion he endeavored to escape by
the window Perhaps they might he as
eflicacious in other forms. The remedy is
simple and SAFE and trial III any case can
do no harm They have cure drop>y.
Mr.. Ralph Brunt, very respectable and re
liable gentleman, living at 4S7 PennsylvAn a
avenue, informed me that his wife had SUIT
fered for long time with droPsy. She was
swelled from her bead to her feet. She
was attended 10y different physicians, who
finally said Mr.. Brunt, we can 90 ne
more your wife cannot live. We can give
temporary relief by tapping her His wife
declined the operation, as 1t would bu
prolong her sutferngs. At this time hi
attention was called to a paragraph In
newspaper, in which gentlem IN made th'
statement that he had been cured Of drops.
by eating onions. His physicians had tolC
him he could not live. One day he wante'
to eat some raw onions and he did SC
After eating them he felt better, and tre'
some more. He then made t a rule to ca
six day, and in few weeks he was wei
lie felt it his duty to publish 1t tor tn
benefit of others. Thus Mr.. Brunt knew {
it. He called the attention Of his wife
it. She was willing to try it. Did 50, an
at the end of one week she discharged he
nurse: attended to her household dutie
and was so reduced in size that her frienC
could hardly recognize her at first sigh
She lived for more than thirty years ate
wards, and died some two years since, ovt
eighty years Of age. If the foregoing shoul
prove the means Of benefiting any one, Il
only regret will feel, will be the fact TIN
I | did not attend to the prOmptinss Of du
much sooner"