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Volume 10 · 90 words · 1815 Edition

in the Materia Medica, the fruit of the dog-rose, or wild briar. See ROSA, BOTANY Index.—This fruit contains a fourth sweetish pulp; with a rough prickly matter inclosing the seeds, from which the pulp ought to be carefully separated before it be taken internally: the Wirtemberg 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 official preparation of this fruit.