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Garlic: A Superfood for Health and the Immune System

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Rabies - Mad Dog Bite
Posted by Rob (Kentucky) on 10/15/2024
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MEDICAL TREATMENT 100 YEARS AGO

LETTERS and INTERVIEWS: EXPERIENCES with RABIES

The following letter was written by Dr. Rush to a patient who had been to the South for his health and was returning to his family in New York. It was reprinted from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (Dec. 30,1909), to whom it came from the descendants of the patient:

Garlic taken in substance, that is, a bruised clove three times a day, or in infusion, that is, eight or ten cloves bruised and put into a pint of peppermint tea, of which a wineglassful should be taken three times a day.

From the book; The Medical Standard, Vol. XXXIII, February 1910, page 59 – 60.

Plinius (Pliny the Elder), the Roman Naturalist (AD 23/24–79), states that Garlic is an excellent remedy for mad dog bite. Dr. Holuby in his works on “Slowakischen Volksmedizin” relates how a woman having been bitten by a mad dog become raving and no remedy was known. She was thrown into a cell in which there happened to be hanging a wreath of Garlic and in her mad furor she bit into the garlic and ate it. Presently she fell into a deep sleep and awoke completely cured.