Editing Garlic (section)

===Folk medicine===
Garlic has been used for traditional medicine in diverse cultures such as in Korea, Egypt, Japan, China, Rome, and Greece.<ref name=drugs/><ref name=nih/> In his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'', [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] gave a [[traditional medicine|list of conditions]] in which garlic was considered beneficial (''N.H.'' xx. 23). [[Galen]], writing in the second century, eulogized garlic as the "rustic's theriac" (cure-all) (see F. Adams' ''Paulus Aegineta'', p.&nbsp;99). [[Alexander Neckam]], a writer of the 12th century (see Wright's edition of his works, p.&nbsp;473, 1863), discussed it as a [[palliative]] for the heat of the sun in field labor. In the 17th century, [[Thomas Sydenham]] valued it as an application in confluent [[smallpox]], and [[William Cullen]]'s ''Materia Medica'' of 1789 found some [[dropsy|dropsies]] cured by it alone.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Cullen 1789, vol.ii. p.&nbsp;174.</ref>