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arise from heat, assuage inflammations, ! 

 procure rest and sleep, stay both whites; 

 and reds in women, the gonorrhea, or runn- 1 



of mastich, is very good for the gonorrhea, 

 and for the looseness of the humours in the 

 body. The old Conserve mixed with Aro- 



ing of the reins, and fluxes of the belly : thejmaticum Rosarum, is a very good cordial 



juice of them doth purge and cleanse the! 

 body from choler and phlegm. The husks 

 of the Roses, with the beards and nails of 



against faintings, swoonings, weakness, 

 and tremblings of the heart, strengthens, 

 both it and a weak stomach, helps diges- 



the Roses, are binding and cooling, and the! tion, stays casting, and is a very good pre- 

 distilled water of either of them is good for : servative in the time of infection. The dry 

 the heat and redness in the eyes, and to \ Conserve, which is called the Sugar of Roses, 

 stay and dry up the rheums and watering j is a very good cordial to strengthen the 

 of them. Of the Red Roses are usually made 1 heart and spirits; as also to stay defluc- 

 many compositions, all serving to sundry j tions. The syrup of dried red Roses 

 good uses, viz. Electuary of Roses, Con- / strengthens a stomach given to casting, 

 serve, both moist and dry, which is more j cools an over-heated liver, and the blood in 

 usually called Sugar of roses, Syrup of dry j agues, comforts the heart, and resists putre- 

 Roses, and Honey of Roses. The cordial \ faction and infection, and helps to slay 

 powder called Diarrhoden Abbalis, and j lasks and fluxes. Honey of Roses is much 

 Aromatica Rosanim. The distilled Water of j used in gargles and lotions to wash sores, 

 Roses, Vinegar of Roses, Ointment, and Oil j either in the mouth, throat, or other parts, 

 of Roses, and the Rose leaves dried, are of j both to cleanse and heal them, and to stay 

 great use and effect. Towrileatlargeof every j the fluxes of humours falling upon them, 

 one of these, would make my book smell It is also used in clysters both to cool and 



too big, it being sufficient for a volume of 

 itself, to speak fully of them. But briefly, 



cleanse. The cordial powders, called 

 Diarrhoden Abbatis and Aromaticum Ro- 



the Electuary is purging, whereof two or j sarum, do comfort and strengthen the heart 

 three drams taken by itself in some con- land stomach, procure an appetite, help 

 venient liquor, is a purge sufficient for a \ digestion, stay vomiting, and are very good 

 weak constitution, but may be increased to ' for those that have slippery bowels, to 

 six drams, according to the strength of the \ strengthen them, and to dry up their mois- 

 patient. It purges choler without trouble, j ture. Red Rose-water is well known, and 

 it is good in hot fevers, and pains of the \ of familiar use on all occasions, and better 

 head arising from hot choleric humours, j than Damask Rose-water, beingcooling and 

 and heat in the eyes, the jaundice also, and j cordial, refreshing, quickening the weak 

 joint-aches proceeding of hot humours. J and faint spirits, used either in meats or 

 The moist Conserve is of much use, both 1 broths, to wash the temples, to smell at the 

 binding and cordial ; for until it be about j nose, or to smell the sweet vapours thereof 

 two years old, it is more binding than i out of a perfuming pot, or cast into a hot 

 cordial, and after that, more cordial than | fire shovel. It is also of much good use 

 binding. Some of the younger Conserve! against the redness and inflammations of the 

 taken with mithridatc mixed together, is \ eyes to bathe them therewith, and the tern- 

 good for those that are troubled with dis- j pies of the head ; as also against pain and 

 dilations of rheum from the brain to the \ ache, for which purpose also Vinegar oi 

 nose, and defluctions of rheum into the i Roses is of much good use, and to procure 

 eyes ; as also for fluxes and lasks of the | rest and sleep, if some thereof, and Rose- 

 belly ; and being mixed with the powder * water together, be used to smell unto, or the 



