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.THE OIL COMMONLY CALLED THE SPIRIT OF ROSESTake of damask or red roses, being fresh, as many as you please.Infuse them in as much warm water as is sufficientfor the space of 24 hours.Then strain and press them and repeat the infusion several times with pressing until theliquor becomes fully impregnated, which then must be distilled in an alembic with a refrigeratory or copper still witha worm.Let the spirit which swims on the water be separated, and the water kept for a new infusion.This kind of spirit may be made by bruising the roses with salt, or laying a lane of roses and another of salt, and sokeeping them half a year or more, which then must be distilled in as much common water or rose water as issufficient.OILS ARE MADE OUT OF SEEDS THUSTake of what seeds you please, bruised, two pounds.Of spring water take twenty pints, let them be macerated forthe space of 24 hours, and then be distilled in a copper still with a worm or alembic with its refrigerating.The oilextracted with the water, being separated with a tunnel, keep the water for a new distillation.This water after three or four distillations is a very excellent water and better than is drawn any way out of thatvegetable whereof these are seeds; I mean for virtue though not always for smell.After the same manner are made oils of spices and aromatical woods.OILS ARE MADE OUT OF BERRIES THUSTake of what berries you please, being fresh, 25 pounds.Bruise them and put them into a wooden vessel with 12pinte of spring water and and a pound of the strongest leaven.Let them be put in a cellar (the vessel being closestopped) for the space of three months.Then let them be distilled in an alembic or copper still with theirrefrigeratory with as much spring water as is sufficient.After the separation of the oil, let the water be kept for anew distillation.Note that the water being used in two or three distillations is a very excellent water and full of thevirtue of the berries.OIL IS MADE OUT OF ANY SOLID WOOD THUSTake of what wood you please, made into gross powder, as much as you will.Let it be put into a retort and distilledin sand.The oil which first distills, as being the thinner and sweeter, must be kept apart which, with rectifying withmuch water, may yet be made more pleasant.The acid water or spirit which in distilling comes first forth, beingseparated, which also (being rectified from the phlegm with the heat of a balneum) may be kept for use, being full ofthe virtue of the wood.After the same manner are made the oil and spirit of tartar, but thus much note, that both are more pure and pleasantbeing made out of the crystals than out of the crude tartar.TO MAKE A MOST EXCELLENT OIL OUT OF ANY WOOD OR GUMSIN A SHORT TIME WITHOUT MUCH COSTTake of what wood you please or gum bruised small.Put it into a vessel fit for it.Then pour on so much of spirit ofsalt as will cover your matter.Then set it in sand with an alembic.Make the spirit boil so all the oil flies over with alittle phlegm, for the spirit of salt by its sharpness frees the oil so that it flies over very easily.The spirit of salt being rectified may serve again.TO MAKE VEGETABLES YIELD THEIR OIL EASILYDistill them, being first bruised, in salt water, for salt frees the oil from its body.Let them first be macerated three orfour days in the said water.OIL OR SPIRIT OF TURPENTINE IS MADE THUSTake of Venice turpentine as much as you please, and of spring water four times as much.Let them be put into analembic or copper still with its refrigeratory.Then put fire under it.So there will distill a thin white oil like water,and in the bottom of the vessel will remain a hard gum called Colophonia, which is called boiled turpentine.Thatwhite oil may be better and freer from the smell of the fire if it be drawn in balneum with a gourd and glass-head.Common oil of olive may be distilled after this manner and be made very pleasant and sweet, also most unctiousthings, as spermaceti, storax liquid, and also many gums.OIL OF GUMS, RESINS, FAT AND OILY THINGS MAY BE DRAWNTHUSTake of either of these which you please, being melted, a pound, and and mix it with three pounds of the powder oftiles or unslaked lime.Put them into a retort and extract an oil which with plenty of water may be rectified.Note that the water from whence the oil is separated is of excellent virtue, according to the nature of the matter fromwhence it is drawn.OIL OF CAMPHOR IS MADE THUSTake of camphor sliced thin as much as you please and put it into a double quantity of aqua fortis or spirit of wine.Let the glass, having a narrow neck, be set by the fire or on sand or ashes the space of five or six hours, shaking theglass every half hour, and the camphor will all be dissolved and swim on the aqua fortis or spirit of wine like an oil.Note that if you separate it, it will all be hard again presently, but not otherwise.ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE OIL OF CAMPHOR THAT IT SHALL NOTBE REDUCED AGAINTake of camphor powdered as much as you please and put it into a glass like a urinal.Put upon it another urinal-glass inverted, the joints being close shut.Sublime it in ashes, inverting those urinals so often until the camphor beturned into an oil.Then circulate it for the space of a month, and it will be so subtle that it will all presently vaporaway in the air, if the glass be open.ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE OIL OF CAMPHORTake two ounces of camphor and dissolve it in four ounces of pure oil of olive.Then put them into four pints of fairwater and distill them all together in a glass gourd, either in ashes or balneum, and there will distill both water andoil, which separate and keep by itself.All these kinds of oil of camphor are very good against putrefaction, fits of the mother, passions of the heart, etc.Afew drops thereof may be taken in any liquor, or the breast be annointed therewith.Also, the fume thereof may betaken in at the mouthA TRUE OIL OF SUGARTake of the best white sugar candy and imbibe it with the best spirit of wine ten times, after every time drying itagain.Then hang it in a white silken bag in a moist cellar over a glass vessel that it may dissolve and drop into it.Evaporate the water in balneum, and in the bottom will the oil remain.This is very excellent in all distempers of the lungs.OIL OF AMBER IS MADE THUSTake of yellow amber one part, of the powder of flints calcined, or the powder of tiles two parts.Mingle them, putthem into a retort, and distill them in sand
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