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greater advantage under nearly similar circum- 
stances, in cholera infantum. ‘To check the in- 
ordinate evacuations which commonly attend the 
protracted cases of this disease, no remedy has 
ever done so much in my hands. Even two or 
three doses will sometimes so bind the bowels 
that purgatives became necessary. Being so 
powerfully astringent, this medicine ‘is useful in 
all excessive purgings, and especially in the di- 
arrhea of very old people, as well as when it oc- 
curs at the close of diseases. During my atten. 
dance in our public institutions I had abundant 
opportunities of testing its efficacy in these cases.” 
The fruit of the blackberry is among the 
most delicious productions of the uncultivated 
forest. To an agreeable combination of sweetness 
and acid it adds an aromatic fragrance which is 
surpassed by few of the lighter fruits produced 
among us. It differs in size and perfection in- 
different seasons, warm and dry summers being 
most favourable to its perfect maturity. Our 
markets, however, are rarely destitute of this fine 
fruit in the months of August and September. 
Some other species of Rubus are closely allied 
to this in the qualities of their fruit and bark, 
particularly the Rubus procumbens, commonly 
called low or running blackberry or dewberry. 
