It looks pretty good-- Hippocrates used garlic as a pharmaceutical to treat different diseases, and so did other early doctors. They believed that a plant or herb that had a very penetrating odour must have great therapeutic value. Even though tuberculosis and leprosy are not at all alike, garlic was used to treat both of them.
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