Medicine: Onions & Garlic

Some time ago Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, Yale physiologist, by chance attended a dinner of nose & throat specialists. One of the rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable.

The nose & throat specialists argued the persistence of...

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