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blood. Red Roses do strengthen the heart, 
the stomach and the liver, and the retentive 
faculty: They mitigate the pains that arise 
from heat, assuage inflammations, procure 
rest and sleep, stay both whites and reds in 
women, the gonorrhea, or running of the 
reins, and fluxes of the belly; the juice of 
them doth purge and cleanse the body from 
choler and phlegm. The husks of the Roses, 
with the beards and nails of the Roses, are 
binding and cooling, and the distilled water 
of either of. them is good for the heat and 
redness in the eyes, and to stay and dry up 
the rheums and watering of them. Of the 
Red Roses are usually made many composi- 
tions, all serving to sundry good uses, viz. 
Electuary of Roses, conserve, both moist 
and dry, which is more usually called Sugar 
of roses, Syrup of dry Roses, and Honey of 
Roses. The cordial powder called Diarrho- 
den Abbatis, and Aromatica Rosarum. The 
distilled water of Roses, vinegar of Roses, 
Ointment, and Oil of Roses, and the Rose 
leaves dried, are of great use and effect. To 
write at large of every one of these, would 
make my book swell too big, it being suffi- 
cient for a volume of itself, to speak fully 
of them. But briefly, the electuary is purg- 
ing, whereof two or three drams taken by 
itself in some convenient liquor, is a purge 
Sufficient for a weak constitution, but may 
be increased to six drams, according to the 
strength of the patient. It purges choler 
without trouble, it is good in hot fevers, and 
Pains of the head arising from hot choleric 
humours, and heat in the eyes, the jaundice 
also, and joint-aches proceeding of hot 
humours. The moist conserve is of much 
use, both binding and cordial ; for until it be 
about two years old, it is more binding than 
cordial, and after that, more cordial than 
binding. Some of the younger conserve 
taken with mithridate mixed together, is 
good for those that are troubled with dis- 
tillations of rheum from the brain to the 
nose, and defluctions of rheum into the 
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eyes; as also for fluxes and lasks of the 
belly; and being mixed with the powder of 
mastic, is very good for the gonorrhea, and 
for the looseness of humours in the body. 
The old conserve mixed with Aromaticum 
Rosarum, is a very good cordial against 
faintings, swoonings, weakness, and trem- 
blings of the heart, strengthens, both it and 
a weak stomach, helps digestion, stays cast- 
ing, and is a very good preservative in the 
time of infection. The dry conserve, which 
is called the Sugar of Roses, is a very good 
cordial to strengthen the heart and spirits; 
as also to stay defluctions. The syrup of 
dried red Roses strengthens a stomach given 
to casting, cools an over-heated liver, and 
the blood in agues, comforts the heart, and 
resists putrefaction and infection, and helps 
to stay lasks and fluxes. Honey of Roses is 
much used in gargles and lotions to wash 
sores, either in the mouth, throat, or other 
parts, both to cleanse and heal them, and 
to stay the fluxes of humours falling upon 
them. It is also used in clysters both to cool 
and cleanse. The cordial powders, called 
Diarrhoden Abbatis and Aromaticum Ro- 
sarum, do comfort and strengthen the heart 
and stomach, procure an appetite, help di- 
gestion, stay vomiting, and are very good 
for those that have slippery bowels, to 
strengthen them, and to dry up their mois- 
ture. Red Rose-water is well known, and 
of a familiar use on all occasions, and 
better than damask Rose-water, being cool- 
ing and cordial, refreshing, quickening the 
weak and faint spirits, used either in meats 
or broths, to wash the temples, to smell at 
the nose, or to smell the sweet vapours 
thereof out of a perfuming pot, or cast 
into a hot fire shovel. It is also of much 
good use against the redness and inflamma- 
tions of the eyes to bathe them therewith, — 
and the temples of the head; as also against _ 
pain and ache, for which purpose also vine- 
gar of Roses is of much good use, and to_ 
