The Art of Distillation - Morning Myst Botanics

days in the sun.
Let the patient drink of this a spoonful or two and compose himself to sweat.
DR. BURGES, HIS PLAGUE WATER
Take three pints of muscadine and boil in it sage and rue, of each a handful, until a pint
be wasted. Then strain it and set it over the fire again. Put thereto a dram of long pepper,
ginger, and nutmeg, of each half an ounce, being all bruised together. Then boil them a
little and put thereto half an ounce of andromachus-treakle, and three drams of
mithridate, and a quarter of a pint of the best angelica water.
This water (which, as says the author, must be kept as your life, and above all earthly
treasure) must be taken to the quantity of a spoonful or two morning and evening, if you
be already infected, and sweat thereupon. If you be not infected, a spoonful is sufficient,
half in the morning and half at night. All the plague time under God (says the author)
trust to this, for there was never man, woman, or child that failed of their expectation in
taking it. This is also of the same efficacy, not only against the plague, but pox, measles,
surfeits, etc.
CROLLIUS, HIS TREAKLE WATER CAMPHORATED
Take of andromachus, his treakle, five ounces; the best myrrh, two ounces and a half; the
best saffron, half an ounce; camphor, two drams.
Mix them together. Then pour upon them ten ounces of the best spirit of wine, and let
them stand 24 hours in a warm place. Then distill them in balneum with a gradual fire.
Cohobate the spirit three times.
This spirit causes sweat wonderfully and resists all manner of infection.
It may be taken from a dram to an ounce in some appropriate liquor.
A DISTILLED TREAKLE VINEGAR
Take of the roots of bistort, gentian, angelica, tormentil, pimpernel, of each 10 drams;
bay berries, juniper berries, of each an ounce; nutmeg, five drams; the shavings of
sassafras, two ounces; zedoary, half a dram; white sanders, three drams; the leaves of rue,
wormwood, scordium, of each half a handful; the flowers of wall flower, bugloss, of each
a handful and a half; andromachus treakle, mithridate, of each six drams.
Infuse them all in three pints of the best white wine vinegar for the space of 8 days in
frigido in glass vessels. Then distill them in balneum.
The spirit is very good to prevent them that are free from infection, and those that are
already infected, from the danger thereof, if two or three spoonfuls thereof be taken once
a day, with sweating after, for those that are infected, but without sweating for others.
AN EXCELLENT WATER AGAINST THE STONE IN THE KIDNEYS
Take of the middle rind of the root of ash, bruised, 2 pounds; juniper berries, bruised, 3
pounds; venice turpentine that is very pure, 2 pounds and a half.
Put these into 12 pints of spring water in a glass vessel well closed, and there let them
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