Cure for Pneumonia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 5, 1904

Cure for Pneumonia

THE following was recently published by the board of health of a New Jersey town as a reliable remedy for pneumonia:—

“Take from six to ten onions, according to size, and chop fine; put in a large spider over a hot fire, then add about the same quantity of rye meal, and vinegar enough to form a thick paste. In the meanwhile stir thoroughly, letting the mixture simmer five or ten minutes. Then put into a cotton bag large enough to cover the lungs, and apply to the chest as hot as the patient can bear it. In about ten minutes apply another, and thus continue by repeating the poultices, and in a few hours the patient will be out of danger.

“Usually three or four applications will be enough, but continue always until the perspiration starts freely from the chest. The remedy was formulated many years ago by one of the best physicians of New England.”