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Another (Take of oil of peppermint lb)

Take of oil of peppermint, 1 lb.; water, a sufficient quantity. Draw off 30 galls.

This is stimulant and carminative, and covers disagreeable flavors. Portugal and Angel Waters.

Take 1 pt. of orange-flower water; 1 pt. of rosewater; and pt. of myrtle-water; to these put a 4 oz. of distilled spirit of musk, and an ounce of spirit of ambergris. Shake the whole well together, and the process will be finished.

Rose-water.

Take of the leaves of fresh damask-roses with the heels cut off, 6 lbs.; water, as much as to prevent burning. Distill off a gallon. The distilled water should be drawn from dried herbs, because the fresh cannot be got at all times in the year.

Whenever the fresh are used the weights must be increased; but whether the fresh or dry are made use of, it is left to the judgment of the operator to vary the weight, according as the plants are in greater or less perfection, owing to the season in which they grew, or were collected.

Small Snail Water.

Take of balm, mint, hart's tongue, ground ivy; flowers of the dead nettle, mallow-flowers, elderflowers, each a handful; snails freed from their shells, and whites of eggs, each 4 oz.; nutmegs, à oz.; milk, 1 gall. Distill in a water-bath to dryness. Strawberry Water. cient quantity. Draw off 2½ galls.; this water is Take of the bruised fruit, 20 lbs.; water a suffivery fragrant. Common Distilled Water. the first gall. and draw off 4 galls., which keep Take of water, 10 galls. Distill. Throw away in glass or stoneware. Distilled water is used in making medicine preparations when the salts contained in common water would decompose them.