The Art of Distillation - Morning Myst Botanics

and you will have a very subtle spirit able to dissolve most things and to extract the virtue
out of them.
PARACELSUS HIS ELIXIR SUBTILITATIS
Take oil of olive, honey, rectified spirit of wine, of each a pint. Distill them all together in
ashes. Then separate all the phlegm from the oils which will be distinguished by many
colors. Put all these colors into a pelican, and add to them the third part of the essence of
balm and sallendine, and digest them for the space of a month. Then keep it for use. The
liquor is so subtle that it penetrates everything.
USQUE - BATH OR IRISH AQUA VITAE IS MADE THUS
Take a gallon of small aqua vitae and put it into a glass vessel. Put thereto a quart of
canary sack, two pounds of raisins of the sun stoned, but not washed, two ounces of dates
stoned, and the white skins thereof pulled out, two ounces of cinnamon grossly bruised,
four good nutmegs bruised, an ounce of the best english licorice sliced and bruised. Stop
the vessels very close and let them infuse in a cold place six or eight days. Then let the
liquor run through a bag called Manica Hippocratis made of white cotton.
This liquor is commonly used in surfeits, being a good stomach water.
AQUA CELESTIS IS MADE THUS
Take of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmegs, zedoary, galangal, long pepper, citron pill,
spikenard, lignum aloes, cububs, cardamum, calamus aromaticus, germander, ground
pine, mace, white frankincense, tormentil, hermodactyls, the pith of dwarf elder, juniper
berries, bay berries, the seeds and flowers of motherwort, the seeds of smallage, the seeds
of fennel, seeds of anise, the leaves of sorrel, the leaves of sage, the leaves of felwort,
rosemary, marJoram, mints, pennyroyal, stechados, the flowers of elder, the flowers of
red roses, the flowers of white roses, of the leaves of scabious, rue, the lesser moonwort,
agrimony, centory, fumitory, pimpernel, sow thistle, eyebright, maidenhair, endive, red
launders, aloes - of each two ounces, pure amber, the best rhubarb - of each two drams,
dried figs, raisins of the sun, stoned dates, sweet almonds, grains of the pine - of each an
ounce.
Of the best aqua vitae to the quantity of them all, of the best hard sugar a pound, of white
honey half a pound. Then add the root of gentian, flowers of rosemary, pepperwort, the
root of briony, sow bread, wormwood - of each half an ounce.
Now before these are distilled, quench gold being made red hot, oftentimes in the
aforesaid water, put therein oriental pearls beaten small an ounce, and then distill it after
24 hours infusion.
This is a very cordial water, good against faintings and infection.
AQUA IMPERIALIS IS MADE THUS
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