[English translation] To remove an abcess. Take some saba, that is cooked wine, in whatever amount pleases you and put it in a little pot on the fire and put therein wheat flour and ordinary oil and cook it until it becomes thick. Put this on the abcess and you will cure it. Medicate in the morning and evening. It is good always to rewarm the wine and add things that may be needed. If it is not a serious sickness, in 8 days it will break open, clear and clean and completely freed. This has been tested. Another, to remove a carbuncle. Take powered rosemary leaves and put this on the carbuncle and it will wither away rapidly. Another, a plaster. Take 1 dram of raisins and 4 dry figs and cook them in water. Grind them together with fresh butter and pork lard, 6 ounces each, and make a plaster and put it on. This has been tested. To heal any overheating and bad dispositions of the liver and for one who may have a facial condition like lepra and with swollen legs and hands reddened so they appear scabrous. Viz. Take barley flour and starch and boil them in ordinary water for one half hour. Then strain this and put it in another clean pot and with that put in a little mallow, chicory, hops, endive and borage and make this boil down in half. Then add 1 ounce of sandalwood and strain it again. Have a piece of fine linen with enough fresh cassia extract to fill 2 nutshells and tie it up and put it in the warm pot and squeeze it very slowly with the fingers so that the substance goes in. Then put in as much sugar or barley sugar as pleases you and it will be a very agreeable beverage. Take 3 ounces every other day in the form of a warm syrup and stay in bed with the body straight and sleep there over an hour if you can. Then get up and do your deed and in a few days it will make you very healthy. It is better if this is done in the summer.... 203 The value of distilled water of strawberries, that is of the fruit when it is mature. Take the strawberries when they are mature and put them in a basket or other woven vessel and let them stay until they are fermented. Save the liquor that strains from the bottom as something of value in a clean vessel and use this. Below you will learn some of its virtures, viz. Another. It heals fresh spots in the eyes caused by any humor. This power has been shown by a talented master apothecary in a woman who had a face damaged all over, full of pustules like a kind of lepra caused by overheating. Washing the face with only this water immediately and miraculously cured her. Its power is a hundred times better and more efficacious with the addition of brandy from the third distillation than without it and much more with the quintessence. Follow this and you will not be in error, if God wishes, and you will not need to use the aid of other doctors.... 204 Another. This heals every kind of old skin eruption on the back, legs, neck and arms of all persons with this kind of irritation. Also if the eruption is on the feet so that it interferes too much with walking, it removes and cures and has the same effect as when calcined tartar is sprinkled on. *Miraculous oil for wounds, tested by several persons. Take one handful each of salvia, rue and southern wood, ½ handful of tamarind, 4 ounces of hepatic aloe and 20 ounces of ordinary oil and mix them together. Boil this on a low fire for an hour. Then force it through the press and put it in a glass bottle and cover it and it will be made. You have the remedy to make a plaster for wounds and heal them at once by boiling the extract with a glass of good wine. ---------- [Italian transcript] A mandare via una postema. Rx. dela sabba ut vin cotto bono questo a te piace et metilo in uno pignatino al foco et mettivi drento farina di furmento e olio comune et cosilo tanto che diventi spesso. Et questo metilo sopra alle aposteme e guarirai e medicha matina e sera et sempre e bono a riscaldarlo et agiongendo de ditte cose bisognando et non ne cosi gran male che in 8 di non rompa pura e netta et libera perfettamente. E de provato. Item. Ad carbonem mortificandum. Rx. pulveres ex fogliis rosmarini et pone super carbonem et statim morietur. Item implastrum. Rx. uve passule drama j, fichi sechi no. 4 et cotti in acqua et peste insieme cum butiro recenti et cum asungia di porcho, ana onze vj, et fac implastrum et super pone. Probatum est. A sanare ogni riscaldamento et mala dispositione di fegato et chi anno il viso come leproso et le gambe grosse et le mane infocate drento che paiano scabrose. Vz. Rx. farina d’orzo overo farina de amito et fatela bolire in acqua comune per una mezora. Poi colatela et metila in una altra pignata netta et con essa metetivi una pocha di malva, cicorea, lupoli, endivia et boragine et fatele bolire per meta. Poi li agiongeti onza j de sandali et poi lo ricolate. Poi abbiate in una pecetta di lino suttila tanta cassia noviter extrata quanta staria in 2 gussi di noce et legata et quando il pignatto sara caldo, mettetilo dentro et premetilo drento con le dita pian piano tante che li vada drento la sustantia. Poi mettetivi drento zucharo o peniti quanto che vi piace et sara bevanda molta agratissima. Et ne piliareti un di si et l’altro no onze iij a modo de syropo e caldo et state in del letto col corpo al ingioso et dormite vi sopra un ora se vi poteti. Poi vi levate et fate li fatti vestri et in pochi giorni sarete molto sanissimo. Et questa si vol fare la estate che e meglio. La virtu de l’acqua stillata delle fraule, cioe di frutto quando egli e maturo. Torai le fraule quando sono mature et metteli in uno canestro o altro vaso fatto de zonchi et lasseli stare tanto che si putrefacino et ricoglie quello licquore che cola per disotto et quella conserva come cosa cara in vaso netto et questa opererai et qui disotto intenderai parte delle sue virtu. Vz. Item. Sana le machie dele occhii fresche d’ogni qualunque humore la quale virtu e statta aprobata da uno valente maestro a una donna la quale aveva tutta la facia guasta e piena de pustule como specia di lebra per causa calida la quale solamente lavandosi il viso con questa acqua statim miracolosamente essere sanata. Et la sua virtu e cento volte migliore e piu eficace con l’acqua ardente che senza quella et molto piu con la quinta essentia et osserva questo et non potrai errare, se dio vorra, non haverai bisognio di usare opera de altri medici. Item. Questa sana de ogni sorte di rognia invechiata adosso et in sun le gambe, collo e bracia et per tutta la persona con certe aroste et cossi medesimamente i piedi se saranno offesi per tropo caminare. Leva via e cura spargendovi sopra tartaro calcinato, il quale a quella medesina possanza per essere di quella medesima posanza et materia. *Olio miracoloso per ferite, provato da piu persone. Rx. salvia, ruta, abrotane, ana m.1, tramarino m. ½, aloe epatico onze 4, olio comune onze 20 e miscia insieme. Boli a fuoco lento per un ora. Poi stacalo per forza per torchio e mettilo in vaso vetriato e la ficcia et fara. Abbi le cura per far piastello sopra le ferite et sana subbito le ferite, facendolo bollire con un bichiere e ottimo vino mexo.