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water of quinces, stayeth tha overflowing of women'is 

 courses, and doth wonderfully stay the detlucftions of 

 rheum upon the gums and teeth, preserving them from 

 corruption, and fastening them if they be loose, being 

 washed and gargled therewith, and some vinegar of 

 squills added thereto- The heads with the seed being 

 used in powder, or in decoction, stayeth the lask and 

 spitting of blood. Red Roses strengthen the heart, 

 stomach, 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 jaice 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 them is 

 good for the heat and redness in the eyes, and to stay and 

 dry up the rheums and watering of them. Of tiic red 

 Roses are usually made many compositions, all serving to 

 sundry good uses. viz. Eledluary 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 Diarrhodon Abbatis, and Aromatica 

 Rosarum. The distilled water of Roses, vinegar of 

 Roses, ointment, and oil of Roses, and the Rose leaves 

 dried, are of very great use and effe<il. To write at large 

 of every one of these would make my book swell too big, 

 it being sufficient for a volume itself, to speak fully of 

 them. But briefly, the eledlaary is purging, whereof two 

 or three drams taken by itseif 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 purgeth choler without trouble, and 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-achs 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. Soma 

 of the younger conserve taken witii raithridate mixed 

 together, is good for those that are troubled with distil- 

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