Infusion of garlic

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Historical use wording: chronic catarrhs, humural asthma, and worms

Source: The family doctor : a dictionary of domestic medicine and surgery; especially adapted for family use (1890), narrative-offset-174676.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• garlic: They have been found useful in chronic catarrhs, humural asthma, and worms ; epilepsy and dropsy are said to have been cured by h strong infusion of garlic, v/nich, as well aa onions, is sometimes used as a revulsive; the latter, roasted and split, are frequently applied as cataplasms to bring abscesses to maturity. Of garlic, a dose or two may be taken in the morning for worms : of the in- fusion of garlic, made of

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: They have been found useful in chronic catarrhs, humural asthma, and worms ; epilepsy and dropsy are said to have been cured by h strong infusion of garlic, v/nich, as well aa onions, is sometimes used as a revulsive; the latter, roasted and split, are frequently applied as cataplasms to bring abscesses to maturity. Of garlic, a dose or two may be taken in the morning for worms : of the in- fusion of garlic, made of half a pound of the bruised roots to a pint of boiling water, two teaspoonfuls before and after every meal, for epilepsy : of the syrup of garlic, made of 1 ounce of the expressed juice, to 1| ounce of lump sugar; a teaspoonful occasionally to children, for coughs vithout inflam- mation; of the milk of garlic, 2 drachma of the bruised bulbs boiled in 6 or 8 ounces of milk, useful as an enema for children in thread worms.

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