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Show ONIONS CURE FOR RABIES. I Victim Bit Into the Tearful Bulb and . J-.' 8lowly Recovered. A resident nud business man of Now Yor'; told mo yesterday: "In ono of our growing western towns which I ( occasionally visit I knew n young mnn who wns engaged to mnrry n beautiful I girl He was suddenly selxed with an 1 Insano desire to Injure her. She called I for her father nnd brother nnd tho, Intter ran for the family physician, I who. upon his arrival, ordered a glass of water to bo brought. At sight or , It tho young man frothed nt tho mouth, exhibiting nil tho symptoms of rabies. J"" Ho was taken to the nttlc and fastened with n chain around his body to a ring-In ring-In tho Door. "Ono day. after many weary weeks of watching, a favorable- change was 1 noticed. 'Mow do you feel?' nsked tho doctor. 'Oh, I'm much better.' wnB iho reply, 'hut you didn't cure me. doctor. It wns thnt pllo of onions In tho comer. See! Kvery time I felt n crazy deslro to lilto nnyltody I would bury my teeth In ono or tho onions nnd m - I they have gradually drawn out all tho poison. I nm entirely well.' Ujon r y examination nn onion wns found which hnd turned green with tho poison, perhaps tho first ono bitten. Tho physician frankly acknowledged that tho onion had saved the patient's life." A vcternn or tho civil war says: "A soldier was stricken with smallpox and unknown to tho physlclnns a bunch of onions was hnnglng In his tent. Wo expected him to dip. but he suddenly got bettor nnd In a short time 1 wns entirely recovered. A few day8 I aftor he got out tho onions wero taken E down and they wero found to be - v i mushy, which tho doctor said was y ' caused by their drawing tho smallpox ' out of the patient. As they wero Inoculated with tho dlxeaso they wero destroyed " Nnw York Press. |