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Doctor Steuens water is an excellēt preser∣uatiue to prolong life, & is made after this mā∣ner: take a gallō of gascoigne wine: thē take gin ger, gallingal, cāmomill, cinnamon, nutmegs, grains, cloues, mace, aniseed, carrawayseed, of each of thē a drachme; thē take sage, mints, red roses, time, pellitorie of the wal, wild mariorā,
pennymountayne, otherwise wilde time, cam∣momille, lauender, of euerie of them one handfull, then bruse the spices small, bruse the herbes, & put all into the wine, and let it stand twelue houres, stirring it diuers times, then distill it in a limbeck, and keepe the first pinte of the water, for that is the best: and then will come a second water, which is not so good as the first. The vertues of this water are these; it comforteth the spirites, it pre∣serueth the youth of man, it helpeth old goutes, the tooth-ache, the palfie, and all di∣seases proceeding of cold: it causeth barren women to cōceiue, it cureth the cold dropsie, the stone in the bladder & in the reines of the backe, it healeth the canker, comforteth the stomacke, & prolongeth a mans life. Take but a spoonefull of it once in seauen dayes; for it is very hot in operatiō. Doctor Steuens, that vsed this water, liued one hundred yeares wanting two.
The sublimated wine of M. Gallus phy∣sition to the Emperour Charles the fift of that name, is most admirable. For the vse thereof caused him to liue sixescore and nine yeares without any disease: which I thinke to
be better then Doctor Steuens water: it is made in this sort: take of Cubebs, cinnamon, cloues, mace, ginger, nutmegges, and galin∣gall three ounces, of rheubarbe, halfe an∣ounce, of Angelica two drachmes, of ma∣sticke foure drachmes, and of Sage one pound and two ounces: steepe these in two poundes and sixe ounces of Aqua vitae, which was sixe times distilled: then distill them altogither. This wine comforteth the braine and memo∣rie, expelleth melancholy, breaketh the stone, prouoketh appetite, reuiueth weake spirites; and causeth a man to wax younge and lustie. It may be taken twise euery weeke, and not a∣boue one spoonefull at each time. To con∣clude, there is a iuleppe made only of white wine and sugar, which comforteth and re∣fresheth the body much, causing the spirites to waxe liuely: it is made thus; put two pound of sugar in three pound of wine, and one pound of rosewater; seeth it till it come almost to a syrupe. This iuleppe is so accep∣table to nature that it supplies the vse of meat and drinke.