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" I have found the following well attested : Onions placed in the room where there is smallpox will blister and decompose with great rapidity, not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly... "
Folk Lore, Or, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland Within this ... - Page 128
by James Napier - 1879 - 190 pages
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The Medical circular [afterw.] The London medical press & circular ..., Volume 2

1868 - 596 pages
...disinfectant in severe cholera epidemics on ship-board. Mr. Wolff says : — " Onions placed in the room where there is small-pox will blister and decompose...rapidity ; not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think, as a disinfectant, they have no equal when properly used ; but keep them out...
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The Saint Louis Medical Reporter, Volume 3

1869 - 828 pages
...foregoing opinion for eighteen years, I have found the following well attested : Onions placed in the room where there is smallpox will blister and decompose...rapidity; not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used j but keep them out of...
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Notes and Reminiscences Relating to Partick

James Napier - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1873 - 350 pages
...years, he remarks — 'I have found the following well attested : — Onions placed in the room were there is smallpox will blister and decompose with...rapidity; not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used; but keep them out of...
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Three Hundred and Fifty Tried and Tested Formulas

Second Congregational Church (Biddeford, Me.) - Community cookbooks - 1886 - 136 pages
...and a cup of warm water ; mix well and drink often. ONIONS AS A DISINFECTANT. Onions placed in the room where there is small-pox will blister, and decompose with great rapidity ; besides this, they will prevent the spread of the disease. As a disinfectant they haveno equal, when...
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Transactions... V.1-, Volume 3

Eclectic medical society of the state of New York - 1869 - 372 pages
...After maintaining the foregoing opinion for eighteen years, I have found the following well attested : Onions placed in a room where there is small-pox will...and decompose with great rapidity ; not only so, but they will prevent the spread of the disease. "I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly...
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California Folklore Quarterly, Volumes 11-12

Folklore - 1952 - 684 pages
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Folk Lore

James Napier
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The [afterw.] Newcomb's Midland counties' almanac and rural hand-book

1866 - 770 pages
...for eighteen yeuis, he remarked : " I haye found the following well attested: onions placed in the room •where there is small-pox will blister and...rapidity; not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used; but keep them out of...
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The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England ..., Volume 66

1869 - 506 pages
...foregoing opinion for eighteen years, I have found the following well attested : Onions placed in the room where there is smallpox will blister and decompose...rapidity, not only so, but will prevent the spread of the disease. I think as a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used ; but keep them out of...
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