Aqua Vita Composita
The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes
The same water is made sometimes of wyne with spyces onely, Somtyme with wyne/ and roses of herbes, somtype with the herbes/sometyme with the roses and herbes togyder, for at all tymes there-to must be stronge wyne withoute feces. Whan ye wyll mak e Aqua vita composita with spyces/ tha shal ye take nutmeggis clowes/ graynes/ gynger/ of eche lyke moche powdred. This shall be put all in wyne and abyde therein a day and a nyght than ye shall pore the wyne out. and dystyll it with an helmet / as the water of roses must be dystylled. The same water used is good for the braynes. The same water is good for litargia. that is impostume iwar be behynde in the hede/ and a bodye that is so forgetfull that he knoweth nat what he dothe and hathe loste some tyme his wyttes/ and some tyme fallynge a slepeth mocs it shall be hoipen whan the same water be with venegre and rue is layd gehind on the hede.