in the materia medica, the fruit of the dog-rose or wild brier. See ROSA.—They contain a four-fifth fleshy pulp; with a rough prickly matter inclosing the seeds, from which the pulp ought to be carefully separated before it be taken internally: the Würtemberg college observes, that from a neglect of this caution, the pulp of hips sometimes occasions a pruritus and uneasiness about the anus; and the conserve of it has been known to excite violent vomiting. The conserve is the only officinal preparation of this fruit. And as it is not supposed to possess any particular medical virtue, but is merely used to give form to other articles, the Edinburgh college have, perhaps without any material disadvantage, entirely omitted it.