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And if a man can not destill together with the aqua vitae, the medicines whose strengthe he desyreth to mixt with it: yet at the least wyle let them be broken and stiept a whyle in it: for it draweth unto it the vertues of all thinges that are put in it. There is a book of Arnoldes de villa noua, or rather of Rogerius, whiche I have written, wherin is declared particularly, to waht diseases and sicknesses, what medicines ought to be put to sooke into aqua vitae, for every part of the body, which he doth attribute to the twelve figures of the zodiak.

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