350 GARLIC, 



the " Four Thieves' Vinegar," and it was not less esteemed as a 

 remedy when that fell disease had already commenced its 

 ravages. Its utility as a diuretic in dropsy*, and as an ex- 

 pectorant in pituitous asthmas and other pulmonary affections 

 unattended with inflammation, is also attested by numerous au- 

 thorities -f. It exerts a powerful influence on the urinary appa- 

 ratus, assuaging nephritic pains, and facilitating the expulsion of 

 gravel, and in calculous complaints generally it has proved re- 

 markably successful J. As a prophylactic and remedy in scurvy, 

 it has also been highly praised by Lind § and others. Its anthel- 

 mintic virtues are likewise considerable, as it kills the worms 

 while still lodged in the intestines |1, which may be afterwards 

 expelled by a cathartic. 



The acrimony of Garlic has recommended it externally as a 

 rubefacient. Sydenham^ applied it bruised to the soles of the 

 feet in cases of confluent small-pox, with the best effects. It 

 has also been applied, bruised and mixed with olive oil or lard, 

 to scrofulous tumours, parts affected with gout, burns, tinea or 

 scald-head, and to remove warts. The juice rubbed on the spine 

 of the back of children affected with hooping-cough, is said to be 

 eminently beneficial ; and inserted on cotton into the ear it is a 

 favourite domestic remedy for deafness, ear-ache, and tooth- 

 ache. 



" Dr. Bowles, an English physician, much celebrated in his time, employed 

 Garlic as a secret remedy in asthma, and with considerable success. His 

 method was to form a kind of preserve of the bulbs, or cloves^ as they are 



St. Giles's, the French ecclesiastics, who constantly used this plant in all 

 their culinary preparations, visited hovels the most filthy and infectious 

 with impunity, whilst the English ministers of the same religion were 

 generally infected with the contagion, to which several of them fell victims." 

 Brit. Dom. Herbal, p. 168. 



* See the cases related by Forestus, Observ. lib. ix. obs. 27. — Bartho- 

 linus, Hist. Anat. cent. ii. hist. T4. — Sydenham, Opera, p. 500. 



t Vide Mead, Monita et Prapcep. p. 56.— Rosenstein (Hus-och Rese-apot. 

 p. 87) recommends three or four cloves of Garlic, sliced, to be boiled in 

 two pints of milk, with the addition of a little vinegar and honey, to be 

 drunk warm, and repeated if necessary. 



J See the experiments of Lobb. — De Dissolv. cal: c. 10. 



§ On Scurvy, p. 182-8. 



II See Bisset's Med. Cons, of Gt. Brit. p. 340 ; Rosenstein om Barns 

 sjiikd, p. 385. 



^ Opera, p. 378 



