MEDICINAL VALUE OF GARLIC

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22003, 29 January 1937, Page 8

MEDICINAL VALUE OF GARLIC

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHES3. Sir—l have been reading in a magazine of some years ago of the virtues or garlic, which was used for centuries

in warding off diseases The ggggg knew of its MUsep powers 3500 years 8.C., and tney Shipped it as the. healer taken as a medicine, it woma almost any disease. ago the Roman author PW, tions 61 diseases for whichit was used. Daniel Defoe, in "is Classic tory of the Great Plague of Ijfgfc lates how John H a > Jr-ahed by went through the plague unseathMJ keeping in his mouth a WM* | ## whilst discharging his W*°S£*§* of collecting the bodies of those yr had died of the P^gueGuide books to the oldi cit/ « )*&. ter tell us how some of the "WTOfe*escaped the plague <°™S&* %fim of garlic kept in the pilars, Marseilles was decimated % v d Soon there was no.one ™ thiev es willing to bury the dead. of were at the time under l^ rfor m death. They were; ordered iwP* t the office of undertaken, surprise of everyone these ™ * lear nt caped the plague. It was *n that they were in ing daily a decoction oW rf gar or wine. Four famous wine {Vinegar ° thro ughThieves). P°P u *f J?J£f day out the South of France. too I hope I am not mawng long, but I do think tnat j d whilst infantile paralyse «abou d , influenza is raging [in Eng an d spread over here Pe°P m ay of glad to know of such asm Keeping safer from infecUon. we are at all times in crowds.-Yours, pBEPAR £D. January 25, 1937.