Blackberry

{blak’ -ber-e) [AS., blcec; berie, berry]. See Rubus. B. Cordial, the cordiale rub i fructus (N. F. ). Its formula is: blackberry juice, 3 pints; cinnamon, in coarse powder, 2 Troy oz.; cloves and nutmeg, in coarse powder, each yz Troy oz.; dilute alcohol, 2 pints; syrup, 3 pints. Blackwater-fever. A very fatal infectious disease occurring especially on the low coasts of tropic Africa, but also in Sicily, Greece, Central and South America, Java, and New Guinea. The disease is almost exclusively confined to the white race and is characterized by a chill, an irregular intermittent or remittent fever, vomiting, dyspnea, jaundice, and hemoglobinuria. An almost invariable complication is nephritis. Studies of the blood have revealed the presence of a small, annular, non-pigmented, intracellular parasite; also forms having a rosette or crescent shape. 150