Take a pint of orange-flower water, a pint of rose-water, and half a pint of myrtle-water; to these put a quarter of an ounce of distilled spirit of musk, and an ounce of spirit of ambergris. Shake the whole well together, and the process will be finished. 358. ROSE WATER. Take of the leaves of fresh damask roses, with the heels cut off, 6 lbs. water, as much as to prevent burning. Distil off a gallon. The distilled waters 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. 359. STRAWBERRY WATER. Take of the bruised fruit, 20 lbs. water a sufficient quantity. Draw off two gallons and a half: this water is very fragrant. 360. COMMON DISTILLED WATER. Take of water, 10 gallons. Distil. Throw away the first ⅓ gallon, and draw off four gallons, which keep in glass or stone ware. Distilled water is used as a diet drink in cancerous diseases, and should be used in making medicines when the salts contained in common water would decompose them. COMPOUND DISTILLED WATERS. ———— 361. GENERAL RULES FOR THE DISTILLATION OF SPIRITUOUS WATERS. 1. The plants and their parts ought to be moderately and newly dried, except such as are ordered to be fresh gathered. 2. After the ingredients have been steeped in the spirit for the time prescribed, add as much water as is sufficient to prevent a burnt flavour, or rather more. 3. The liquor which comes over first in distillation is by some kept by itself, under the title of spirit; and the other runnings, which prove milky, are fined down by art. But it is preferable to mix all the runnings together, without fining them, that the waters may possess the virtues of the plant entire. 4. In the distillation of these waters, the genuine brandy obtained from wine is directed. Where this is not to be procured, take, instead of that proof spirit, half its quantity of a well rectified spirit, prepared from any other fermented liquors. In this steep the ingredients, and then add spring water enough, both to make up the quantity ordered to be drawn off, and to prevent burning. 362. BERGAMOT WATER. Take of fine old French brandy, 2 gallons, or 1 gallon of highly rectified spirit of wine, and 1 gallon of spring water. Put to the brandy, or diluted spirits, ½ an ounce, or more, of true Roman oil of bergamot, whose parts have been previously well divided by trituration with lump sugar, in a glass mortar.