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And all year after, physicians
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During the Middle Ages when the
plagues were ravaging Europe, it is
said that those who ate garlic daily
were not infected. The same
happened to many European immigrants
who were in this country in the
nineteenth century and early 1900s
when we were subjected to many
epidemic diseases like flu and
scarlet fever. Those who ate
garlic were not touched by the bugs.
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In Marseilles France, in 1722,
during the onslaught of the plague,
four thieves admitted they were
robbing the bodies of the dead.
They attributed their ability to be
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able to handle the bodies and not be
infected to a concoction of wine
vinegar and crushed garlic. This
preparation became known as FOUR
THIEVES VINEGAR and is credited with
protecting many of the citizens of
Marseilles from the plague.
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Garlic received high praise for
stopping the spread of the great
plague which swept England in the
mid-seventeenth century. One
household was immunized because garlic
was stored in the building. Another
plague story concerns French and
English clerics. The French used
garlic and administered freely to the
victims of the plague without
contracting the disease. Yet the
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