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in powder, or in a decoction, stays the lax and spitting of 

 blood. Bed roses strengthen the heart, the stomach, the li- 

 ver, and the retentive faculty ; they mitigate the pains that 

 arise from heat, cool inflammations, procure rest and sleep, 

 stay both the whites and reds in women, the gonorrhoea, or 

 running of the reins, and fluxes of the bellv; the juice purg- 

 es and cleanses the body from choler and phlegm. The 

 husks, with the beards and nails of the roses, are binding 

 and cooling, and the distilled water is good for the heat and 

 redness in the eyes, and to stay and dry up the rheums and 

 watering of them. The electuary of roses is purging ; two 

 or^three drams taken by itself, or in some convenient liquor, 

 is a purge sufficient for a weak constitution, but may be in- 

 creased to six drams, according to the strength of th6 pati- 

 ent It purges choler without trouble, and is good in hot 

 fevers, and pains in the head, which arise from hot choleric 

 humours, and heat of the eyes; the jaundice also, and joint- 

 aches proceeding of hot humour. The moist conserve is of 

 much use, both binding and cordial^ for until it is 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, is good for those troubled with de- 

 fluxions of rheum in the eyes, and mixed with the powder 

 of mastic, is good for gonorrhoea, and looseness of humours 

 in the body. The old conserve mixed with aromattcum ro- 

 sarum^ is a remedy for those who faint, swoon, or are trou- 

 bled with weakness and tremblings of the heart, it strength- 

 ens both it and a weak stomach, helps digestion, stays cast- 

 ing, and is a preservative in the time of infection. The dry 

 conserve, which is called the sugar of roses, strengthens the 

 heart and spirits, and stays defluxiona The syrup of dried 

 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 laxesand 

 flukes. Honey of roses is used in gargles and lotions to wash 

 sores, either in the mouth, throa^ or other parts, both to 

 cleanse and heal them, and stay the fluxes of humours that 

 fall upOn them. It is used in clysters both to cool and cleanse. 

 The cordial powders, called diarrhodon abbatis and aromati- 

 cum rosarum, comfort and strengthen the heart and stomach, 

 procure an appetite, help digestion, stay vomiting, and are 

 very good for those that have slippery bowels, to strength- 

 en them, and to dry up their moisture : red rose-water is 

 weU known, and of a similar use on all occasions, and better 



