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melancholy humours, and againft the leprofy, itch, tetters, &cc. and the French difeafe. 
Alo honey of rofes folutive is made of the fame infufions that the fyrup is made of, 
and therefore worketh the fame effect both opening and purging, but is oftener given 
to phlegmatic than choleric perfons, and is more ufed in clifters than in potions, as the 
fyrup made with fugar is. The conferve and preferved leaves of thefe rofes are alfo 
- operative in gently opening the belly. 
The fimple water of the damask-rofes is chiefly ufed for fumes to fweeten things, 
as the dried leaves thereof to make {weet powders and fill {weet bags. The wild 
rofes are few or none of them ufed in phyfic, but yet are generally held to come near 
the nature of the manured rofes. The fruit of the wild brier, which are called hops, 
being thoroughly ripe, and made into a conferve with fugar, befides the pleafantnefs 
‘of the tafte, doth gently bind the belly, and ftay defluxions from the head upon the 
ftomach, drying up the moifture thereof, and helpeth digeftion. The brier-ball isof- 
ten ufed, being made into powder and drunk, to break the ftone, provoke urine when 
it is topped, and to eafe and help the cholic. In the middle of thefe balls are often 
found certain white worms, which, being dried, and made into powder, and fome of 
it drunk, is found, by experience of many, to kill and void the worms of the belly. 
DL. ROSA SOLIS, or SUN-DEW. 
- Deserirtion. IT hath divers fmall round hollow leaves, fomewhat greenihh, but 
fall of certain red hairs, which makes them feem red, every one ftanding upon his 
own footftalks, reddifh hairy Jikewife. The leaves are continually moift in the hotteft 
day, for the hotter the fun fhines on them the moifter they are, with a certain flimi- 
Seis nefs, the {mall hairs always holding this moifture. Among thefe leaves rife up {mall 
= -flender ftalks, reddifh alfo, three or four fingers high, bearing divers {mall white 
_ Knobs one above another, which are the flowers; after which, in the heads, are con- 
tained {mall feeds : the root is a few {mall hairs. 
ACE, Ie groweth ufually in bogs and in wet places, and fometimes in ec ; 
IME It flowereth i in June, and then the leaves are fitteft to be sienereds 
OVERNMENT AND Virtues. The Sun rules it, and it is under the fign Can- 
cer. ~ Rofa folis i is accounted good to help thofe that have falt rheum diftilling on 
their lungs, which. breedeth a confumption, and therefore the diftilled water thereof 
in wine is held fit and profitable for fuch to drink, which water will be of a gold 
yellow colour: the far ne water is held to be good for all other difeafes of the lungs; 
as phthifics, wheefing, thortnefs of breath, or the cough ; as alfo to heal the ‘ulcers 
that’ 
