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instances, among which is my brother, who, while labouring under 
a severe attack of dysentery, experienced the most sudden and salu- 
tary change in his disorder, on my giving him the jam plentifully. 
As nothing can be more grateful to the stomach of persons, adults 
or infants, affected with this disease, it should always be resorted to 
when procurable, and given almost ad libitum. The fine aroma of 
the fruit is preserved both in the syrup and the jam, and a few 
spoonfuls of it will be found to relieve the painful tenesmus. 
A jelly made of the fruit when on the turn from red to black, has 
been said to be useful in gravelly complaints ; but this, I think, is not 
entitled to any credit. 
The dose of the decoction, is a teacup full for an adult, and 
two or three tea-spoonfuls for a child, three or four times a day. 
Schoepf describes, ina medicinal point of view, the Rubus frutico- 
sus, (certainly the present plant) and the Rubus occidentalis or wild 
raspberry, together. They are undoubtedly closely allied in their me- 
dicinal virtues, as they are in their botanical structure and habit. I have 
seen raspberry jam (prepared from the Rubus idus or garden rasp- 
berry) used in the manner mentioned above, for the blackberry : 
but it proved much inferior; whether the jam and syrup prepared 
from the wild American raspberry, be more closely allied in its vir- 
tues to those made of the blackberry, I know not, but it is worth an 
experiment, A syrup prepared from the juice of the garden rasp- 
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