2^S THE ENGXlSli PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Time.'] It flowereth in May, scedclh ia June, and then 

 pcrisliPth. 



Government and Virtues.'] It provokes urine, helps 

 stranguary, and expels gravel and the stone. It is good for 

 the scurvy, and found by experience to be a singular good 

 wound-herb to cleanse inward wounds : the juice or 

 deco6iion being drank, or outwardly applied to wash foul 

 Tilcers and sores, cleansing them by sharpness, and hinder- 

 ing or abating the dead Uesh from growing therein, and 

 healing them by the drying quality. 



.Roses. ■?/. ?. D. (temp, d. 2.) 



It is altogether needless to trouble the reader with a 

 description of these, since both the garden Roses, and the 

 Roses of the briars, are m ell enough known. 



Government and Virtues.] What a pother have authors 

 made with Roses ! What a racket have they kept ! I shall 

 add, red Roses are under Jupiter, damask under Venus, 

 white under the Moon, and Provence under the King of 

 France. The white and red Roses arc cooling and drying, 

 and yet the white is taken to exceed the red in both 

 the properties, but is seldom used inwardly in any me- 

 dicine. The bitterness in the Roses when they are fresh, 

 especially the juice, purgeth choler, and watery hu- 

 mours ; but being dried, and the heat which causeth the 

 bitterness being consumed, they have then a binding and 

 astringent quality ; those also that arc not full blown, do 

 both cool and bind more than those that are full blown, 

 and the white Rose more than the red. The deco^lioa 

 of red Roses made with wine and used, is very good for 

 the head-ach, and pains in the eyes, ears, throat and 

 gums; as also for the fundament, the lower parts of the 

 belly and the matrix, being bathed or put into them. 

 The same decoction with the roots remaining in it, is 

 profitably applied to the region of the heart to ease the 

 inflammation therein ; as also St. Anthony's fire, and 

 other diseases of the stomach. Being dried and beaten 

 to powder, and taken in steeled wine or water, it helpeth 

 to stay women's courses. The yellow threads in the 

 middle of the Roses (which are erroneously called the 

 Rose Seed} beiug powdered and drank in the distilled 



