ALLIUM CEPA'. 
sulphur which occasions the disagreeable odour of the oniofl when 
putrifying. According to Vauquelin, the recent juice contains sugar, 
mucus, phosphoric acid, phosphate of lirae, and citrate of iime. 
The odour and taste both of the leek and onion are dissipated by 
much boiling, and they become bland and insipid. 
Medical Properties and Uses of Garlic. The medicinal 
uses of garlic are various ; it has been long considered to possess 
expectorant, diuretic, stimulant, diaphoretic and anthelmintic pro- 
perties, and its utility in various diseases is attested by ancient and 
modern writers of unquestionable authorities. It has been much 
esteemed as an efficacious remedy in chronic catarrh, pituitous 
asthma, and in inveterate coughs, in which complaint Celsus 
employed it mixed with honey. Its diuretic effects in dropsy are 
very considerable, and also its lithontriptic power in removing 
«rinary calculi, when persevered in for some length of time, it 
acts powerfully by diaphoresis, if the body be kept warm during its 
use. It has been successfully given in intermittents,* and in fevers 
of the typhoid type. Garlic has been long a popular remedy for 
expelling worms, and instances are recorded by Rosenstein,t Taube, 
Hoffmann, and others, of its destroying and expelling tenia. Exter- 
nally it is applied in the form of poultice, to promote suppuration in 
indolent tumours. Bruised, it is often applied to the soles of the 
feet, to promote revulsion in the coma of typhus and in confluent 
small-pox, A clove of garlic, or a few drops of the expressed juice 
introduced into the external ear not only relieves pain in the part, 
but it is also said to be an efficacious remedy in atonic deafness. 
In retention of urine produced by a want of action in the bladder, 
a poultice of garlic applied to the pubis, has had the effect of 
stimulating the bladder to discharge its contents ; an enepia formed 
of the expressed juice, diluted, has been injected into the rectum to 
destroy ascarides. 
Garlic when taken in considerable doses, or used too freely as a 
condiment, is capable of producing inflammation of the abdominal 
viscera, and of exciting discharges of blood from the haemorrhoidal 
vessels ; it is also apt to occasion head -ache, drowsiness, flatulence, 
and great thirst in some constitutions. 
* Vide Celsus, lib. c. p. 142. Bergius Mat. Med. p. 255. 
t 'Rosenstein xecommends tbe garlic to be boiled in milk, jVint of which is to be 
taken night and morning. 
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