CONSUMPTION SCOURGE

Shannon News, 10 May 1927, Page 2

CONSUMPTION SCOURGE

GREAT FAITH IN GARLIC. DOCTOR TRIES TO SAVE WIFE. The use of garlic as a cure for convumption is suggested by a Melbourne doctor. At all events, the doctor and a chemist are carrying out experiments and hope to find at last in the much-despised garlic onion, a cure for the dread scourge. They are working hard because the physician's wife is a victim of the disease. She has great faith in the curative properties of garlic. The doctor is being spurred on in the hope of curing his wife, and is buying every available garlic onion in the city. Supplies became so scarce that the search was even extended to Sydney. A week later the Sydney supplies were exhausted. The experiment would have been held up but for the timely discovery of an extensive garlic crop owned by two Italians in the Chiltern Valley, Victoria.

Large quantities of garlic are boiled down to provide succub, or juice, from which an extract is obtainea. This highly concentrated extract contains all the nutritious elements trf the garlic. . It is placed in capsules and swallowed by i,he patient. The two experimenters have already haft proof of the palative effect of the extract.

About a month ago about one hundredweight of onions were secured at the city markets, and by the difficult process of maceration, lasting 24 days the whole of the onions were, boiled down. They produced only one gallon of succus. This juice in turn was placed in a porcelain evaporating pan and rendered down to givo the extract. The gallon of juice evaporated to Aoz. of thick concentrated extract. The experiments are being watched with interest by medical men.