Here's a weird find.

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD18891031.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

Press Democrat, Volume XVI, Number 94, 31 October 1889

Onions Instead of Quinine.

One day I was taken with chills and' headache, signs that my old enemy, malaria, was on band. My quinine box was empty, and I was looking forward to a restless, sleepless night. In desperation 1 peeled a raw onion and slowly ate it, and then went to bed, with warm feet and an extra comforter, when, presto! 1 was asleep in five minutes, and awakened in the morning free from malaria and ready for the day’s duties. Our homely but strong friend will be appreciated in time as a medicine, and if agriculturists would turn their attention to raising a model onion, with the strong scent taken out that taints the breath so unpleasantly, families will be putting their “pills” in the cellar by the barrel, and the doctors would take to onion farming. The onion acts as a cathartic and diuretic, and may help to break up a cold or lessen the bad symptoms. Bald a doctor: “I always store a barrel of onions in my cellar during the fall We have them cooked twice a week, and whoever of the family is threatened with a cold eats some onion raw. If this vegetable were generally eaten there would be no diphtheria, rheumatism, gout, kidney or stomach trouble: “But bless you! the young men and women are afraid to eat them. One young man went so far as to say to me: ‘lf my wife ate onions I would get a bill of divorce. 1 American Garden.