Rob (Kentucky) on 09/24/2024

Sherley Dare, in answering correspondents through the Blade Household, says to " A. E. W., " of Waterloo;

“The safest and quickest prescription for clearing the blood is to eat a raw onion, finely minced, at breakfast; the whole of a common sized onion is enough, and a dose of charcoal or ground coffee, and brushing the teeth, will deodorize the breath. The onion can be taken with salt and vinegar as a salad. Consumptives find this of benefit.”

Remarks. I have much more faith in the onion as an alterative, than I have in the idea that the charcoal or powdered coffee, even with the brushing of the teeth, will remove the odor of onions from the breath; but what of that? let the “bref” smell of garlic; if onions will do what they are here credited

with, they are certainly more valuable than is generally set down to their credit; but I remember of once being told by a gentleman that a moderate sized onion minced and eaten at each meal, with the salt and vinegar, as above mentioned, would cure dispepsia. I have no doubt of their utility, both as an alterative upon the blood and as a tonic to the stomach; not one is eaten where ten ought to be.

From the Book – Dr. Chase’s New Receipt Book and Medical Advisor or Information for Everybody by A.W. Chase MD, page 72-73. 1927.