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nose and temples moistened therewith, but 5 pound syrup is more forcible in working on 

 more usually to moisten a piece of a red i 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 j 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, j effect, both opening and purging, but is 

 The ointment of Roses is much used against | 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 f in potions, as the syrup made wilh sugar is. 

 with Ungnentum Populneum, to procure rest: ; 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, ; the belly. 



wheals, and other red pimples rising in the j 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 j 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 j 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- \ nature of the manured Roses. The fruit of 

 wardly, both cooling, binding, and cordial, j 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- \ with sugar, besides the pleasantness of the 

 rum Rosarum, each of whose properties arej 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 ; digestion. The pulp of the hips dried into 

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

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

 and heart, do much cool and temper them, unto 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, \ 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, {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 \ 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 i certain white worms, which being dried and 

 herein, that the distilled water of this syrup; 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 bellj. 

 one ounce thereof by itself will open the : 

 body more than the other, and works as! 

 much on phlegm as choler. The corn-* 



