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than the daraaak roae-water, it is cooling, cordial, refresh- 

 ing, quickening the weak and faint spirits, used either in 

 meats or broths, to wash the temples, to smell at the nose, 

 or to smell the sweet vapours out of a perfume pot, or cast 

 into a hot fire-shoveL ft is of much use against the redness 

 and inflammations of the eyes to bathe therewith, and the 

 temples of the head. The ointment of roses is much used 

 against heat and inflammations of the head, to anoint the 

 forehead and temples, and if mixed with the UnguerUum 

 Papulean procures rest ; it is also used for the heat of the 

 liver, the oack, and reins, and to cool and heal pushes, 

 wheals, and other red pimples rising in the face and other 

 parts. Oil of roses is used by itself to cool hot inflamma- 

 tion or swellings, and to bind and stay fluxes of humours to 

 sores, and is also put into ointments and plasters that are 

 cooling and binding, and restraining the nux of humours. 

 The dried leaves of the red roses are used both outwardly 

 and inwardly ; they cool, bind, and are cordial, for of them 

 are made aromaticum rotarum, diarrhodon abbatity and 

 iaccharum rosarum. Hose-leaves and mint, heated and ap- 

 plied outwardly to the stomach, stay castings, strengthen 

 a weak stomach, and, applied as a fomentation to the region 

 of the liver and heart, greatly cool and temper them ; 

 qaiet the over-heated spirits, and cause rest and sleep. The 

 pyrup of damask-roses, is both simple and compound, and 

 made with agaric. The simple solusive syrup is a familiar, 

 safe, gentle, and easy medicine, purging choler, taken from 

 one ounce to three or four. The conserve and preserved 

 leaves of those roses operate by mildly opening the belly. 

 The hips of wild roses, when ripe, are maae into a conserve 

 with sugar, of a pleasant taste, it binds the belly, and stays 

 defluxions from the head upon the stomach, and dries up the 

 moisture, and helps digestion. The pulp of the hips dried 

 to a hard consistence, that it may be powdered, and this 

 powder taken in drink, speedily stays the whites. It is often 

 used in drink, to break the stone, provoke urine when it ii 

 stopped, and ease and help the colic ; some persona bum it 

 and then take it for the same purpose. 



ROSE (RED.)— CA>«a Rubra./ 



Ihiorip. — This has lower bnshes than the former ; the 

 flowers nave few prickles on the stalks, and the calyx, or 

 beards, are shorter and smoother; they are less double than 

 eitber the damask or white, having a great many yellow 

 antbera In the middle. 



