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(which lasted about 100 years),
some herbs were used to good
results for ailments to which their
signatures originally pointed.
When Sir H John Harrington
composed his poetic version of the
cures used at the medical school of
Salerno in 1607, garlic received
top priority as a disinfectant.
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Maximillian, Prince of Weld,
was cured from what was considered
a hopeless case of scurvy, in Fort
Clark in 1834, when some Indian
children gathered wild garlic
which was administered to him.
The writings of early white
frontier doctors tells us that the
Winnebagos and Dakotas used garlic
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to relieve wasp and bee stings.
Garlic even inspired some place names
in the United States. Chicago, in the
language of the northeastern Illinois
Algonquin Indians, meant "place of the
wild garlic."
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A nineteenth century medical
book, The Family Doctor, published in
1869, lists garlic as a "Stimulant,
diuretic, expectorant, deobstructant,"
and recommends its use in chronic
catarrh, humoral asthma, worms,
epilepsy and dropsy. (Dawson, 1980.)
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Clarke notes its clinical
applications by homeopathic physicians
in Alopecia, asthma, diabetes,
bronchitis, catarrh, colic,
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