The original receipt for preparing this invaluable lotion, is written
in letters of gold in the hand-writing of Elizabeth, queen of Hungary.
Take of aque vitæ, four times distilled, 3 parts,
the tops and flowers of rosemary, 2 parts.
To be put together in a close-stopped vessel, and allowed to stand
in a warm place, during fifty hours, then to be distilled in an
alembic, and of this, once every week, 1 drachm to be taken in the
morning, either in the food or drink, and every morning the face
and the deceased limb to be washed with it.