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medicinal purposes the petals, the flowers, and the heads are 

 used. Those portions of the petals which are quite white are 

 known as the unglets. 52 In the flower there is the seed, as 

 distinguished from the filaments, and in the head there is the 

 bud, 53 as well as the calyx. The petals are dried, or else the 

 juice is extracted from them, by one of the three following 

 methods : Either the leaves are employed whole for the pur- 

 pose, the unglets not being removed for these are the parts, 

 in fact, that contain the most juice or else the unglets are 

 first taken off and the residue is then macerated with oil or 

 wine, in glass vessels placed in the sun. Some persons add 

 salt as well, and others alkanet, 54 or else aspalathus or bweet- 

 scented rush ; as it is, when thus prepared, a very valuable re- 

 medy for diseases of the uterus and for dysentery. According 

 to the third process, the unglets are removed from the petals, 

 and pounded, after which they are subjected to pressure in a 

 coarse linen cloth, the juice being received in a copper vessel,; 

 it is then boiled on a slow fire, until it has acquired the con- 

 sistence of honey ; for this purpose, however, the most odori- 

 ferous of the petals should be selected. 



(19.) We have already stated, 55 when speaking of the va- 

 rious kinds of wines, how rose wine is made. Rose juice is 

 much used in injections for the ears, and as a gargle for ulcer- 

 ations of the mouth, and for the gums and tonsils ; it is em- 

 ployed also for the stomach, maladies of the uterus, diseases 

 of the rectum, and for head-ache. In fevers, it is used, either 

 by itself or in combination with vinegar, as a remedy for 

 sleeplessness and nausea. The petals, charred, are used as a 

 cosmetic for the eyebrows j 56 and the thighs, when chafed, are 

 rubbed with them dried ; reduced to powder, too, they are 

 soothing for defluxions of the eyes. The flower of the rose is 

 soporific, and taken in oxycrate it arrests fluxes in females, 

 the white flux in particular ; also spitting of blood, and pains 

 in the stomach, if taken in three cyathi of wine, in sufficient 

 quantity to flavour it. 



As to the seed of the rose, the best is that which is of a saf- 

 fron colour, and not more than a year old ; it should be dried, 



52 u Ungues," " nails ;" in allusion to the white part of the finger- 

 nails. 53 " Cortex." 

 M "Anchusam." 55 In B. xiv. c. 19. 

 5G " In calliblepharum." 



