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a humorous expression signifying “‘ Gone to pot,” or “ Gone to 
ruin.” “ Though that her soul’s gon’ a blackeberyed ” (Pardner’s 
Tale). Jelly, or jam made from the Brambleberry, and taken 
on bread in the place of butter, was highly commended against 
red gravel by Mr. Pott, a noted surgeon, two centuries ago. Dr. 
Franklin, who suffered long from stone in the bladder, has 
recorded his assurance that Blackberry jam, of which he con- 
sumed large quantities, certainly served to relieve him. The 
Anglo-Saxon name was “ Bramble-apple.” Gipsies say that 
in cooking Blackberries you cannot stew them too long. For 
“ Blackberry Cordial” the juice should be expressed from fresh 
ripe fruit, putting half a pound of white sugar to each quart of 
this juice, together with half an ounce of powdered nutmeg, and 
the same of cloves (bruised); boil these together for a short 
time, and add a little good brandy to the mixture when cold. 
In Cruso’s Treasury of Easy Medicines (1771) it is directed for 
old inveterate ulcers, to take a decoction of Blackberry leaves 
made with wine, and foment the ulcers with this whilst hot, 
each night and morning, which will heal them, however difficult 
to be cured. 
BLOOD OF ANIMALS. 
Wuen Animal Blood is used in cooking : for example, in the 
sausages known as black puddings, the addition of several 
aromatic spices is necessary so as to overcome its alkaline flatness, 
and lack of savour. “ Blood,” says Dr. Thudicum, “is not 
capable of giving a savoury extract (to gravy), although the 
blood of each species of eatable animal has its particular, and 
distinctive flavour; that of the ox, and cow being remarkably 
redolent of musk.” But among civilized nations the pig is the 
only animal of which the Blood furnishes a distinct article of 
food ; mixed with fat, and spices, whilst enclosed in prepared 
intestines, this pig’s blood is made into black puddings. 
Chemically the Blood of animals contains a considerable quantity 
of iron, besides albumin, fibrin, hydrogen, some traces of prussic 
acid, and some empyreumatic oil. The serum, or thin part of 
the Blood, includes sulphur. Experimentally it turns out that 
the blood of snails, which is colourless, contains as much iron 
as that of the ox, or calf, this fact going to prove that the red 
colour of animal Blood is not due, as is generally supposed, to 
___ the presence of iron in that fluid. The saline constituents of — 
