Garlic to fight the plague???

[Nemesis]

I used to eat a lot of garlic and in fact did smell of the stuff, got quite a few comments from mates and family, this was raw bulbs I swallowed, now a days I tend to eat it daily but chopped and cooked with my foods, there are quite a lot of claims made and growing garlic protects other crops from some insect attacks for just being near said crop, so it is said.

There is some history about French clergy not dying during the bubonic plague in London while the English clergy died, due to the fact the French eat garlic.