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folk. I look upon it as a perfectly safe treatment, efficient in 
most cases of incipient tubercular disease of the lungs, in nearly 
all cases moderately advanced, and in many very advanced cases. 
Its action is fairly rapid, and the treatment is scarcely open to 
any objection, it being readily applicable to all cases of consump- 
tion, whether in the well-to-do, or the poorer classes, either at 
home, or in the general wards of a hospital. I have had so 
much success with it that I have come to look upon few cases 
of consumption as hopeless.”’ If intestinal troubles are further 
present, Dr. Minchin gives the garlic juice also by the mouth, 
in doses of twenty drops diluted with water, and repeated several 
times a day. Garlic in syrup promotes expectoration, and is 
therefore beneficial in the chronic bronchial affections of aged, 
weakly subjects. It has been related in Kitchen Physic how 
Cavazanni at Venice throughout more than two years used 
garlic with remarkable success for tubercular consumption, 
having treated more than two hundred cases, all of which were 
shown by a bacteriological inspection of the sputa to be un- 
doubtedly consumptive. 
For imparting a mild flavour of garlic to a salad of endive, or 
chicory, a crust of stale bread which has been rubbed with garlic 
is sometimes placed at the bottom inside the bowl, this being 
called in France a capon (chapon). It was originated by the 
Gascons, who were poor, but vain, so that it occurred to one of 
them to name this flavoured crust a capon, in order that he 
might truthfully tell his friends he had dined superbly on a capon, 
and salad. A clove of garlic inserted in the knuckle of a shoulder, 
_ or leg of mutton will impart a slight, but distinct flavour to the 
whole joint ; and a rump steak is improved in taste if served on 
a plate first rubbed over with a clove of garlic cut in two. For 
an adult taking garlic remedially on account of bronchial trouble. 
one or more cloves may be eaten at a time. Raw garlic applied 
to the skin reddens it; when bruised and mixed with lard, it 
makes a very useful counter-irritant opodeldoc. If employed 
thus over the chest in front, and between the shoulder blades 
behind, of a child with whooping cough, it proves eminently 
helpful. Old Fuller says, “‘ indeed a large book has been written 
de esu allii, about the culinary virtues of garlic, which book, if it 
hold proportion with truth, one would wonder that any man 
should be sick and dye who hath Garlic growing in his garden. 
Sure I am our palate-people are much pleased therewith as giving 
