The Art of Distillation - Morning Myst Botanics

Let the flowers be fresh, and seasonably gathered, and macerated in a gallon of the best
spirits of wine and mixed with the aforesaid spirit of lavender. Then add the leaves of
balm, motherwort, orange tree newly gathered, the flowers of stechados, oranges,
bayberries, of each an ounce.
After a convenient digestion let them be distilled again. Then add the outward rinds of
citrons, the seed of peony husked, of each six drams; cinnamon, nutmeg, mace,
cardamum, cububs, of yellow sanders, of each half an ounce; lignum aloes, one dram; the
best jujube, the kernels taken out, half a pound.
Let them be digested for the space of six weeks. Then strain and filter the liquor to which
add of prepared pearl two drams; prepared emerald, a scruple; ambergris, musk, saffron,
red roses, launders, of each an ounce; yellow sanders, rinds of citrons dried, of each a
dram.
Let all these species be tied in a silken bag and hung in the foresaid spirit.
A SCORBUTICAL WATEROR A COMPOUND WATER OF
HORSERADISH IS MADE THUS
Take the leaves of both scurvy grass, being made very clean, of each six pounds. Let
these be bruised and the juice pressed forth, to which add the juice of brook lime,
watercress, of each half a pound; of the best white wine, eight pints; twelve whole lemons
cut; of the fresh roots of briony, four pounds; horseradish, two pounds; of nutmeg, four
ounces.
Let them be macerated three days and distilled.
Three or four spoonfuls of this water taken twice in a day cures the scurvy presently.
SPIRIT OF CASTOR IS MADE THUS
Take of fresh castoreum, two ounces; flowers of lavender, fresh, half an ounce; sage,
rosemary, of each two drams; cinnamon, three drams; mace, cloves, of each a dram; the
best rectified spirit of wine, three pints.
Let them be digested in a glass (two parts of three being empty) stopped close with a
bladder, and cork two days in warm ashes. Then distill the spirit in balneum, and keep it
in a glass close stopped. If you would make it stronger, take a pint of this spirit and an
ounce of the powder of castoreum. Put them into a glass and digest them into a cold place
for space of ten days, and then strain out the spirit.
This spirit is very good against fits of the mother, passions of the heart which arise from
vapors, etc.
BEZEARD WATER IS MADE THUS
Take of the leaves of the greater sallandine together with the roots thereof, three handfuls
and a half; of rue, two handfuls; scordium, four handfuls; dittany of Crete, Carduus, of
each a handful and a half; root of zedoary, angelica, of each three drams; the outward rind
of citrons, lemons, of each six drams; the flower of wall gilly flower, an ounce and a half;
red roses, the lesser centory, of each two drams; cinnamon, cloves, of each three drams;
andromachus, his treakle, three ounces; mithridate, an ounce and a half; camphor, two
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