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nose and temples moistened therewith, but i pound syrup is more forcible in working on 

 more usually to moisten a piece of a red j melancholic humours; and available against 

 Rose-cake, cut for the purpose, and heated j the leprosy, itch, tetters, &c. and the French 

 between a double folded cloth, with a little { disease : Also honey of Roses solutive is 

 beaten nutmeg, and poppy-seed strewed on \ made of the same infusions that the syrup 

 the side that must lie next to the forehead i is made of, and therefore works the same 

 and temples, and bound so thereto all night. * effect, both opening and purging, but is 

 The ointment of Roses is much used against j oftener given to phlegmatic than choleric 

 heat and inflammations in the head, toanoint ; persons, and is more used in clysters than 

 the forehead and temples, and being mixt j in potions, as the syrup made with sugar is. 

 with Unguentum Populnetim, to procure rest: 1 The conserve and preserved leaves of those 

 it is also used for the heat of the liver, the; Roses are also operative in gently opening 

 back and reins, and to cool and heal pushes, j the belly. 



wheals, and other red pimples rising in the \ The simple water of Damask Roses is 

 face or other parts. Oil of Roses is not | chiefly used for fumes to sweeten things, as 

 only used by itself to cool any hot swell- ! the dried leaves thereof to make sweet pow- 

 ings or inflammations, and to bind and stay { ders, and fill sweet bags; and little use 

 fluxes of humours unto sores, but is also i they are put to in physic, although they 

 put into ointments and plaisters that are i have some purging quality ; the wild Roses 

 cooling and binding, and restraining the i also are few or none of them used in physic, 

 flux of humours. The dried leaves of the* but are generally held to come near the 

 red Roses are used both inwardly and out- j nature of the manured Roses. The fruit of 

 wardly, both cooling, binding, and cordial, i the wild briar, which are called Hips, being 

 for with them are made both Aromaticum, \ thoroughly ripe, and made into a conserve 

 Rosarum, Diarrhoden Abbatis, and Saccha-\\viih sugar, besides the pleasantness of the 

 rum Rosarum, each of whose properties are j taste, doth gently bind the belly, and stay 

 before declared. Rose leaves and mint, \ defluctions from the head upon the stomach, 

 heated and applied outwardly to the i drying up the moisture thereof, and helps 

 stomach, stays castings, and very much 5 digestion. The pulp of the hips dried into 

 strengthen a weak stomach ; and applied j a hard consistence, like to the juice of the 

 as a fomentation to the region of the liver i liquorice, or so dried that it may be made 

 and heart, do much cool and temper them, i into powder and taken into drink, stays 

 and also serve instead of a Rose-cake (as is ! speedily the whites in women. The briar 

 said before) to quiet the over-hot spirits, j ball is often used, being made into powder 

 and cause rest and sleep. The syrup of j and drank, to break the stone, to provoke 

 Damask Roses is both simpleand compound, J urine when it is stopped, and to ease and 

 and made with Agaric. The simple solutive | help the cholic; some appoint it to be 

 syrup is a familiar, safe, gentle and easy j burnt, and then taken for the same purpose, 

 medicine, purging choler, taken from one j In the middle of the balls are often found 

 ounce to three or four, yet this is remarkable j certain white worms, which being dried and 

 herein, that the distilled water of this syrup j made into powder, and some of it drank, 

 should notably bind the belly. The syrup j is found by experience of many to kill and 

 with Agaric is more strong and effectual, for j drive forth the worms of the belly, 

 one ounce thereof by itself will open the ; 

 body more than the other, and works as 1 

 much on phlegm as choler. The com-* 



