The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-07-28
Simple Cure for Typhoid Fever and
Dropsy.

The following article has appeared
in this paper before, but if there is
any virtue in the remedy given the
article will bear repeating. 1t is a
cure for typhoid fever and dropsy as
given by Mr.. John R. Cox, citizen
of Baltimore, and published in the
Baltimore american some years ago.
The remedy is simple and harmless
and the experiment can be easily
tried. Some times the simplest rem
edies prove most efficacious and so it
may be in this case. But see what
Mr.. Cox says:
Some time since a gentleman informed
me he knew Of several persons who had
been cured OF typhoid fever by the ap-
pIication 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 a few weeks
later and the result equally satisfactory.
The first opportunity | had I tried it
upon 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 well, and recovered. The
next opportunity was that Of a son of a
friend OF mine in the treasury depart
ment of the custom house in our city. |
called to see him on business, when he
informed me his son was very i'll. He
on fun 10 lo Il
been deliriOus for a week or more, and
required constant watching, for fear he
might do himself harm. advised him
spoke OF It: Immediately on it's appI-
cation he began to improve, and con-
tinued until he finally recovered" Per-
haps they might be as efficacious in
other forms. The remedy is simple and
safe, and trial in any case can do no
harm. They have cured dropsy. Mr..
Ralph Brunt, very respectable and re-
liable gentleman informed me that his
wife had suffered for long time with
dropsy. She was swelied from her head
to her feet. She was attended by differ
ent physicians, who finally said: "Mr.
Brunt, we can do no more, your wife
cannot live. We can give temporary
relief by tapping her" His wife declined
the operation, as it would but prolong
her sufferings. At this time his atten-
ton was called to a paragraph in a
newspaper, in which a gentleman made
the statement that he had been cured of
dropsy by eating onions. His physi-
clans had told him that he could not
live. One day he wanted to eat some
raw onions and he did so. After eating
them he felt better, and tried some more
He then made it rule to eat six day,
and in q few weeks he was well. lie felt
it his duty to publish it for the benefit of
others. Thus Mr.. Brunt knew of it. He
called the attention of his wife to it..
She was willing to try it; did SO, and at
the end of one week discharged her nurse,
ATTENDED to her household duties, and
was so reduced in size that her friends
could hardly recognize her at first sight.
She lived for more than thirty years
afterward, and died some two years
since. over eighty years of age. If the
foregoing prove the means OF benefiting
any one, the only regret 1 will feel will
be the fact that | did not attend to
the promptings of duty much sooner.