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Show USE PLENTY OF 0N10NS Doctor Says- They Will Drive Contagious Diseases Away. Chicago, Dec. 25. The use of plenty plen-ty of onions will drive contagious diseases out of any city, Dr. Mary Walkci. who is visiting" with Ch'cngo friends, tonight declared. Here are Dr. Walker's directions for the use of onions: "Eat plenty of them, stewed, boiled, fried or raw. "Keep tho fumes of onions continually contin-ually permeating the atmosphere. . "Spread onions in the alleys, on the lawn and any other place "where it might appear they would do good." Dr. Walker said onions were particularly par-ticularly effective against smallpox. Tho use of the vegetable in two cltie3, at least has procn her con- tcntion, she said. "Madrid was one of the affected cities," she said. "Some even had made the statement before the onions on-ions were used that the city would be depopulated by smallpox. The I minister plenipotentiary assured me , that tho spread of the disease had I been halted by the use of onions. They also were used in other cities." |