The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

It is thus made.

First, you must have a vessell of Glasse a Cubite high, or thereabouts, and fill it with Aqua vitae made of good Wine, and see that it be well luted, and then cover it in Horse dung, or Doves dung, so that it be not too moist, nor too hot, lest the Glasse breake: leave the neck of the Glasse without in the aire; this will boile mightily; and so let it stand thirty daies; then draw out the Glasse, and put these things following into the Water, and stop the mouth close, and so leave it eight daies: lastly, put the Glasse in Balneo Mariae, with Sand, setting on a head, with a receiver well luted, and make a slow fire, and ga∣ther the first Water; whiles it seemeth to drop downe cleare; but when it turneth red, then change the receiver, for this is the second Water, which you shall keep in a Glassewell stopped: The Spices to be put in are these, good Cinamon, Cloves, Ginger, Galingale, Nutmegs, Zedoary, long Pepper, and round, rootes of Citron, Spikenard, Lignum Aloes, Cubebs, Cardamomum,

Calamus Aromaticus, Germander, S. Iohns wort, Ma∣ces, white Frankincense, round Turmentill, Hermoda∣ctills, the pithe of white Wallwort, Iuniper, Laurell berries, the seed of Mugwort, Smalllage, Fennell, Anise, flowers of Basile, Rosemary, Sage leaves, Margerome, Mints, Penniroyall, Sticados, flowers of Elder, red Ro∣ses, and white, Rue, Scabious, Lunary, Centaury the lesser, Egrimony, Fumitary, Pimpernell, Dandelion, Eufrage, Maidenhaire, Endive, seeds of Sorrell, yellow Sanders, Aloes Epatich, ana ℥ ii. Ambrosine, fine Rubarb, ana ℥ ii. dry Figs, Raisons, Dates without stones, sweete Almonds, Pine kernels, ana ℥ i. Aqua vitae made with good Wine to the quantity of them all, and foure times as much Sugar as they be all; of white Honey lib. ii. then put to the underwritten Rootes, of Gentian, flowers of Rosemary, Nigella that growes in the Corne, Bryony, roote of the hearbe called Panis Porcinus Hogs bread, seed of Wormwood ana ʒ ss. before you distill the Wa∣ter you must quench in it a hot plate of Gold often∣times, and put to it Orientall pearles, which must lye covered with Water, else they lose their colour; and so distill it.