¶ The Temperature and Vertues.
The faculties of these wilde Roses are referred to the manured Rose, but not vsed in physicke [ A] where the other may be had: notwithstanding Pliny 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that the root of the Brier bush is a singular remedie found out by oracle, against the biting of a mad dog, which he sets downe in his eighth booke, chap. 41.
The same Author, lib. 25. cap. 2. affirmeth, that the little spongie Brier ball stamped with honey [ B] and ashes causeth haires to grow which are fallen through the disease called 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or the Foxes euill, in plaine termes the French pocks.
Fuchsius affirmes, that the spongie excrescence or ball growing vpon the Brier are good against [ C] the stone and strangurie, if they be beaten to pouder and inwardly taken.
They are good not as they be diureticks or prouokers of vrine, or as they are wearers away of the [ D] stone, but as certaine other binding medicines that strengthen the weake and feeble kidneyes; which do no more good to those that be subiect to the stone, than many of the diuretickes, especi∣ally of the stronger sort; for by too much vsing of diureticks or pissing medicines, it hapneth that the kidneyes are ouer-weakened, and often times too much heated, by which meanes not only the stones are not diminished, worne away, or driuen forth, but oftentimes are also increased and made more hard: for they separate and take away that which in the bloud is thin, waterie, and as it were wheyish; and the thicker part, the stronger sorts of diuretickes do draw together and make hard: and in like maner also others that are not so strong, by the ouermuch vsing of them, as Galen. lib. 5. of the faculties of simple medicines reporteth.
The fruit when it is ripe maketh most pleasant meats and banqueting dishes, as tarts and such [ E] like; the making whereof I commit to the cunning cooke, and teeth to eat them in the rich mans mouth.