8 LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 



All kinde of waters ofherbes and flowers are first distilled by 



discensory. 



Waters of purest substance from odors, flowers, fruites, 

 and herbes, wholsomest, perfitest, and of greatest vertue, 

 are first distiled by desensory, depured and rectified, clere as 

 christall, with his owne onlie proper vertue ; taste, and odor, 

 contynuinge many yeares. One spoonefull is better then a 

 gallon of other for any prynce, or noble person, or any that 

 love their healthe; for medicyne inward or outward where 

 other doe much more hurte then good, beinge unaptly dis- 

 tilled, and invenomed by the evill quallitie of mettalyne stilles, 

 and other defectes. 



Simple and compound waters. 



Water for odors, moste sweete and delicate, of many seve- 

 rall kyndes, bothe simple and compounde. 



Water ofvioletts and suche like. 



Water of violetts, jilly flowers, and pinckes, &c., contynue 

 not nor reteyne not their owne proper odors and vertues, ex- 

 cepte they be distilled very cunningly and perfitly by desen- 

 sory; or, their odors beinge holpen by other meanes, they 

 are not medicinable. 



A precious water for purifying e and preserving e the teethe. 



A moste precious and excelleiite water to purifie, preserve, 

 and fasten the teethe, and with good order to keep them that 

 they shall never decaye nor corrupte ; moste wholsome, plea- 

 sant, and comfortable. 



A principall water for moste outward diseases proceeding e of 

 heate and colde. 



A water that taketh awaye inflamations, rumes, swellinges, 

 colde greifes, colde gowtes, aches, and other paynes; and 

 healeth dangerous woundes, ulcers, sores, and the hardest 

 diseases, with greate effecte and wonderfull speede, and in 

 myne opinion farre exceedeth the farre fetched balmes. 



Water for the eyes. 



Waters for the eyes prooved of many as well for preser- 

 vinge and comfortinge the sighte, as to restore that which is 

 lost. 



