Efficacy of Blackberry Jelly in Treating Gravel and Stone

          From the NEW-YORK JOURNAL.
As the season for making a jelly of black-berries
   is approaching, it may be proper to communi-
   cate the following account of its very remark-
   able efficacy in that dreadful disorder, the gra-
   vel and stone:

A Gentleman who, for many years, was af-
    flicted with this terrible complaint, was
persuaded to take every night going to bed, the
quantity of a large nutmeg of this pleasant
medicine: the effect of which was, that the
stone was broken in pieces, and voided in gra-
nuels, some of them nearly the size of pepper
corns, manifestly appearing to be portions of a
much larger substance. The gentleman, though
more than fourscore, is now enabled to dis-
charge these stony particles without much diffi-
culty, and finds no other inconvenience than a 
frequent irritation to make water.--To make
the jelly, take black-berries before they are 
quite ripe, when turned red, pick them and put
them in a pot, tie them up close, and put them
in a kettle of water; let them stand over a fire
till they are reduced to a pulp, then strain
them, and to a pint of juice put a pound of 
powdered sugar; boil it to a jelly, and put it
up for use.