Word: filatova
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Russia's newest medical weapons against wound bacteria are among its oldest-onions and garlic. Say Drs. I. V. Toroptsev and A. G. Filatova, who made the wound experiments: "The ancient medicinal remedies used over thousands of years no longer appear absurd.'' The evidence for the vegetables as germicides, presented in last week's American Review of Soviet Medicine, would not have surprised any Russian peasant-he uses onions and garlic as a protection against typhus...
...scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...
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