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Rose

Nature

Rose as a plant people have named and used. Beauty, thorn, opened heart — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Rose is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats rose among cultivated flowers with oil and drug chapters. A named rose in that encyclopedia, not briar-rose-spindle as the fairy-tale object and not a Valentine dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Rose is used in Dye.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica notes rose among flowers whose juice and preparations also color unguents and related craft media beside pharmacy. A named rose coloring use in that handbook, not rose-medicine-pliny as the already-stored drug claim and not madder as a root red.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Rose is used in Oil.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, juice of berries is boiled in oil of roses for the ears — the rose oil carries the juice as a warming ear drop.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Rose is used in Vinegar.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, oil of roses with vinegar is applied to swellings and sore breasts — the vinegar sharpens the rose oil dressing on inflamed parts.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Rose is associated with Heart.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, Red Roses strengthen the heart, the stomach and the liver, and the retentive faculty — the rose strengthens that heart.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Rose is historically related to Wine.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, a College cordial water bruises thyme and rose flowers and infuses them twenty-four hours in white wine before distillation — rose flowers are infused in that wine.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Rose is historically related to Egg.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, rose leaves with frankincense and the white of an egg are applied to swollen or watering eyes — rose is joined with that egg white.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Rose is historically related to Alum.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a mouth mixture compounds fine honey with borax, burnt alum, and rose-water for children’s thrush.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Rose is historically related to Clove.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a common gargle mixes rose-water with syrup of clove july-flowers and spirit of vitriol for the tongue and fauces.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Rose is historically related to Cinnabar.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, the first rose colour is prepared by mixing a little cinnabar and a little minium into the simple flesh colour for cheeks and mouth.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Rose is historically related to Minium.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, that same rose colour compounds minium with cinnabar into the flesh colour before reddening the nude.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Rose is historically related to Lemon.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, the sick-chamber is sprinkled with vinegar, juice of lemon, or vinegar and rose-water with a little nitre dissolved in it.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Rose is historically related to Green.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, youths’ beards are filled by mixing deep green and red with a little rose colour.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Rose is historically related to Milk.

    In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, milk of roses is a cosmetic wash formed with potassa, oil of almonds, bergamot, rose water, and orange-flower water.

    from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)

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  • Rose is historically related to Borax.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a thrush mixture compounds fine honey with borax, burnt alum, and rose-water for rubbing a child’s mouth.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Rose is historically related to Nitre.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, a fever draught mixes dulcified spirit of nitre with rose-water, common water, and simple syrup for repeated doses while the fever is violent.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Honey is associated with Rose.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, Honey of Roses is used in gargles and lotions to wash sores in the mouth, throat, or other parts, both to cleanse and heal them — honey is compounded with that rose.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Myrtle is historically related to Rose.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, rose leaves and myrtle berries are boiled together for troches of Ramich — the rose and myrtle share that decoction.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • Quince

    In Culpeper English Physician, a softening ointment makes mussilage of quince seeds in rose water before compounding with wax and oils.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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  • White lead is historically related to Rose.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, vermilion mixed with white lead makes the colour called rose, then broken with vermilion and designed with white lead.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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Hellenic religion

  • Rose appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10 seats the rose among Venus and Adonis garden and flower speech. A named rose in that poem, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not a Valentine slogan dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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European folklore

  • Tudor rose is historically related to Rose.

    Boutell’s English Heraldry treats the Tudor rose — double red and white — among English dynastic badges received into armorial speech. A named tudor-rose historically related to the rose, not red-rose or white-rose alone.

    from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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  • White rose is historically related to Rose.

    Boutell’s English Heraldry treats the white rose of York among English badge and armorial rose speech. A named white-rose historically related to the rose, not tudor-rose combined and not red-rose of Lancaster.

    from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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  • Red rose is historically related to Rose.

    Boutell’s English Heraldry treats the red rose of Lancaster among English badge and armorial rose speech. A named red-rose historically related to the rose, not tudor-rose combined and not white-rose of York.

    from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867

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  • Rose window is historically related to Rose.

    Parker’s Glossary seats the rose window as a circular church window, also called Catherine-wheel or marigold window, named for its rose-like radiated form. A named rose-window in that fabric speech, not a lancet pointed light and not the plant rose as botanical identity.

    from John Henry Parker · Glossary of Architecture, 1836 (and later enlarged editions)

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