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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Rose-water together, be used to smell unto, 
or the nose and temples moistened there- 
with, but more usually to moisten a piece of 
a red Rose-cake, cut for the purpose, and 
heated between a double folded cloth, with 
a little beaten nutmeg, and poppy-seed 
strewed on the side that must lie next to the 
forehead and temples, and bound so thereto 
all night. The ointment of Roses is much 
used against heat and inflammations in the 
head, to anoint the forehead and temples, 
and being mixt with Unguentum Popul- 
neum, to procure rest: it is also used for the 
heat of the liver, the back and reins, and to 
cool and heal pushes, wheals, and other red 
pimples rising in the face or other parts. 
Oil of Roses is not only used by itself to 
cool any hot swellings or inflammations, 
and to bind and stay fluxes of humours unto 
sores, but is also put into ointments and 
plaisters that are cooling and binding, and 
restraining the flux of humours. The dried 
leaves of the red Roses are used both in- 
wardly and outwardly, both cooling, bind- 
ing, and cordial, for with them are made 
both Aromaticum Rosarum, Diarrhoden 
Abbatis, and Saccharum Rosarum, each of 
whose properties are before declared. Rose 
. leaves and mint, heated and applied out- 
wardly to the stomach, stays castings, and 
very much strengthen a weak stomach; and 
applied as a fomentation to the region of 
the liver and heart, do much cool and temper 
them, and also serve instead of a Rose-cake 
(as is said before) to quiet the over-hot 
spirits, and cause rest and sleep. The syrup 
of damask Roses is both simple and com- 
pound, and made with agaric. The simple 
solutive syrup is a familiar, safe, gentle and 
easy medicine, purging choler, taken from 
one ounce to three or four, yet this is re- 
_ markable herein, that the distilled water of 
_ this syrup should notably bind the belly. 
_ The syrup with agaric is more strong and 
effectual, for one ounce thereof by itself 
will open the body more than the other, and 
works as much on phlegm as choler. The 
compound syrup is more forcible in work- 
ing on melancholic humours; and available 
against the leprosy, itch, tetters, &c. and 
the French disease: Also honey of Roses 
solutive is made of the same infusions that 
the syrup is made of, and therefore works 
the same effect, both opening and purging, 
but is oftener given to phlegmatic than 
choleric persons, and is more used in 
clysters than in potions, as the syrup made 
with sugar is. The conserve and preserve 
leaves of those Roses are also operative in 
gently opening the belly. 
The simple water of Damask Roses is 
chiefly used for fumes to sweeten things, as 
the dried leaves thereof to make sweet pow- 
ders, and fill sweet bags; and little use 
they are put to in physic, although they 
have some purging quality; the wild Roses 
also are few or none of them used in physic, 
but are generally held to come near the 
nature of the manured Roses. The fruit of 
the wild briar, which are called Hips, being 
thoroughly ripe, and made into a conserve 
with sugar, besides the pleasantness of the 
taste, doth gently bind the belly, and stay 
defluctions from the head upon the stomach, 
drying up the moisture thereof, and helps 
digestion. The pulp of the hips dried into 
a hard consistence, like to the juice of the 
liquorish, or so dried that it may be made 
into powder and taken in drink, stays 
speedily the whites in women. The briat 
ball is often used, being made into powder 
and drank, to break the stone, to provoke 
urine when it is stopped, and to ease and 
help the cholic; some appoint it to be burnt, 
and then taken for the same purpose. In 
| the middle of the balls are often found 
certain white worms, which being dried and 
made into powder, and some of it 
is found by experience of many to kill and 
drive forth the worms of the belly. 
