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 ...

I. The WATER.

Take the fresh leaves of the Elder, and they being grosly beat or cut, fill the half of a Vesica with them, and put a sufficient quantity of warm wa∣ter on them; macerate them therein for a night, and distill them; put the distill'd water on fresh leaves, distill them again. After the same man∣ner, of the green and succulent bark water is prepared.

There are some that of the succu∣lent roots, pith, and spunges by them∣selves, or mixed together, doe distill waters, which they much commend in Hydropsies, which first are to be well shred and macerated a night in∣convenient liquor, that their vertues

may be more easily drawn out of them.