Francis de La Boe, a 17th century professor of medicine at Leyden University, Holland, is credited with being the originator of the botanical, flavored beverage spirits known as gin. Since his product's primary flavor was due to the essential oils extracted from juniper berries, he gave it the French name, "jenievre," which appeared later as the Dutch "geneva" and finally was abridged to the English "gin." Distilled gin is a distillate obtained by original distillation from mash, or by the redistillation of the distilled spirits, over or with juniper berries and other aromatics customarily used in the production of gin.

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