Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

1. Of the Rob, Tincture, Extarct, or Essence,

TAke the ripe Berries of the Elder picked from their stalks, press the juice out of them, which being strained is to be thickned on a soft and clear fire. Some in time of their inspissating add a little sugar, that the pallat may rellish it the better; and this is called the Rob of Elder berries with sugar. Of the Rob, or inspissat juice of the Berries without sugar, the Tincture and extract is prepared after this manner.

Take a pound of this Rob, put it in a long and capacious Glass, called by the Chymists a Cucurbite, put thereon the spirit of Wine, or the proper spi∣rits of the Elder, described in this

Chapter, so that it be a handful high above it. The Glass being well clo∣sed, that the spirit may not exhale; di∣gest it in Balneo four or five days, sha∣king the Glass twice a day: After that strain the whole matter contain∣ed in the Cucurbit, through gray pa∣per. Take the strained liquor (which is obscurely reddish, and is called of some, the Tincture of the Elder or Granorum actes, and may be kept with∣out further distillation to good pur∣pose) put it in a Glass Cucurbit, and having put on the Alembick, distil it on a slow Balnean heat, till the Men∣struum, or that spirit, drop by drop se∣parate, and the extract of the berries remain in the bottom like hony. If the Menstruum be not totally extracted, that which remains in the Cucurbit is called by the modern Chymists, the liquid extract of Granorum Actes. You shall find another extract taken out of Quercetan in the third Section, and 26 Chapter.