[English translation] Epilepsy. Another to cure epilepsy. Take one dram of deer horn made into fine powder and give it to drink every morning with 2 ounces of warm good white wine with ½ dram of raw anise in fine powder. Give it in the form of a syrup. This beverage will be of great help to the epileptic. Another plaster for the falling sickness. Take 1 ounce each of myrrh, nutmeg, white incense and mother's milk from a woman nursing a boy if the sick person is male and, if female, from a woman nursing a girl. Mix the herbs together, make them into fine powder, make a well-formed plaster and spread it on chamois leather. Then shave the top of the head up to the forehead and put on this plaster, very warm, and let it stay on at least for 6 months and, with the aid of God, he will be healed. But do keep shaving the head every 8 to 10 days so that it holds the plaster and you will see a good result, with God's grace. Another, a different, very good remedy for the falling sickness. Take lees of good wine and first shave the top of the head and with these lees rub the commissure of the head, rubbing until the area becomes blistered. Then take a sharp nail that has a good silver coating and heat it very well. Then press it on this blister and it will break open and all of the sickness will be alleviated and soon, with the aid of God, it will be cured, little by little. These secrets are very useful for falling sickness. When a headache in women lasts a long time. Rub the forehead and the temples with marsh mallow and soon she will be cured. Another. Cook dill seed in oil. Rub the forehead and temples with this and it lifts the pain. Another. Creeping thyme cut and cooked with vinegar in rose oil, confected and put on the head, lifts the pain. Another. Juice of ground ivy, oil and vinegar mixed together and put on the top of the head with wool or cotton. Another. Juice of celandine, taken up in the nostrils, clears the head. Another. Take hepatic aloe and grind it finely and mix it with olive oil. Then spread it on a linen cloth and put it on the forehead and the temples in the evening. Another. Wash the head repeatedly with lye made of cinders and ashes of stalks and roots of large nettle and white grape and this will be found wonderfully efficacious against headache, especially migraine. Another against migraine. Take laurel oil and rub it on the temples 2 or 3 times. It is a wonderfully powerful ointment and takes away the pain. Another for headache. Take rue and grind it with olive oil and then sprinkle into it rabbit bile so that it is mixed smoothly, and the same amount of pork fat, and rub the forehead and the temples and all the pain will be alleviated. Another. Grind pennyroyal and its flowers together and give it to drink with wine or warm water and you should fast right up to the nones and it will clear up the head.... 37 Another. Take juice of rue and rub it on the forehead and over it put cotton. Another. Pennyroyal may be cooked with vinegar and put in your nostrils so you feel the odor, and from the pennyroyal make a wreath for your head. Another. Take a fresh hen's egg and cook it hard in the ashes. Then divide it in half and bind it warm on the forehead when you go to sleep. Soon you will be freed. Do this when your head hurts. Another for ache of the forehead. Take stonecrop and cumin cut together with egg white and bind it on the forehead. Arabian pills for every headache. Take 4 ounces of aloe, 5 each of bryony and cherry plum, 1 ounce each of citrus, Indian plum, Kabul cherry plum, mastic, scammony, wild spikenard and roses, 1 dram of crocus, 3 drams of musk and mix together with the juice of culrage or absinthe. Another pill for headache. Take 4 drams of fine mastic, 10 drams of hepatic aloe, 3 drams of fine white mushrooms and make pills with juice of artemisia. They can even be taken with syrup of French lavender after a light meal without stopping their action. Against the swelling of the eyes in a headache. Take rose water and rose oil and ground salt and mix with a stick and put in a drop of vinegar. Then wet cloths in it and put them on the forehead and soon the pain will lift and make you sleep. Tested against headache. Take juice of plantain and a little rose water, a little vinegar, a little mother's milk and the white of one fresh egg, each the same amount, only more or less milk at your discretion. Then wet some cloths in this mixture and put them on the forehead so they reach from one ear to the other and the pain will go away. ---------- [Italian transcript] Mal caducco. Item a guarire il mal caducco. Rx. corno di cervo suttilmente fatto in polvere drama j et dattoli a bere ogni matina con onze ij di vino bianco bono caldo con drama s di anesi crudi in polvere suttila et datto in modo di syropo et questa bevanda molto li zovera a lo epilentico. Item cirotto per il mal caducco. Rx. mirra, noce moscate, incenso bianco, ana onza j, et latte di donna che latti maschio se e maschio lo infermo et se la e femina che latti femina et componi insieme et che le compossitione siano fatti in polvere suttile et farai uno cirotto in bona forma et lo distendi sul sovatto camossine. Poi li farai radere la testa dela summita per insino alla fronte et mettivi suso le ditto cirotto cossi caldo et lasselo stare suso al manco per 6 mesi et con lo aiutto di dio sera rissanato. Ma fa chel tenghi raduta la testa al manco ogni 8 o 10 giorni tanto como tiene lo cirotto et vederai una bella opera, per dei gratia. Item un altro bonissimo rimedio al sopra ditto mal caducco. Rx. fezza de vino che sia bono et prima li sia raso la sommita del capo et con la ditta fezza fregali sopra alla commissura dela testa et fregali tanto che li facci venire una bona broffola. Et poi piglia uno bono chiodo che abbia una bona capella de argento et scaldela molto bene. Poi la calcherai sopra a quella broffola et quella schioppera et dali linesse tutto il suo male et presto con lo aiutto de dio guarira a poc a poco. Et questi secreti sono molti propicii al ditto mal caducco. Quando alla donna li dole il capo longo tempo. Ongasi la fronte et le tempie con dialtea et presto si sanera. Item. Aneti semen coquatur in oleo et ex ipso innungatur frons et tempora dollorem tollit. Item. Serpiglium tritum et cum aceto coctum et in oleo rosatem confectum capiti apositum, dolorem tollit. Item. Sucus edere terestris, oleo et aceto comisce et cum lana ut bombice verticem apone. Item. Sucus celidonie naribus insusus caput purgat. Item. Rx. aloe epatico pisto sutile et distempera con oleo di oliva. Poi lo distendi su una peza lina et poni sun la fronte et tempie et la sera. Item. Lavetur sepe caput de lexiva facta de cineribus, caulis, radicis urtice maioris et vitis albe et invenitur mira eficatia contra dolorem capitis, maxime emigraneum. Item contra emigraneam. Vz. Rx. oleum laurinum temporibus bis ut ter super. Unctum mirabiliter valet et dolorem aufert. Item ad dolorem capitis. Rx. rutam et tere cum oleo olive et postea sparge intus fel leporis ita quod inturbidetur et axungiam, ana, et unge frontem et tempora et totus dolor alleviabitur. Item. Pulegium et eius fiores et simul pista et da bibere cum vino ut acqua calida et ieiunet usquem ad nonam et purgabit caput. Item . Sucum rute et unge frontem et super pone berbam. Item. Pulegium coctum cum aceto et pone tibi ad nares ita ut sentias odorem et ex illo pullegio fac unam cor[o]nam in capite. Item. Rx. un ovo de galina che sia fresco et falo cosere duro sotto la cenere. Poi partilo per mezo et legalo sun la fronte caldo quando vai a dormire. Presto sarai liberato et questo farai quando ti dole il capo. Item ad dolorem frontis. Rx. semper viva et ciminum tritum in simul cum albumine ovi et liga in fronte. Pillule arabice ad omnem dolorem capitis. Rx. aloes onze iiij, brionie, mirabolanorum omnium v, citri, belirici indorum, Kebuli embilici, masticis, diagridii, asari, ros, ana onza j, croci drama j, castorei drame iij. Confice cum suco culium ut absinthii. Item pillule ad dolorem capitis. Rx. masticis electi drame iiij, aloes epaticis drame x, agarici fini et albi drame iij, fiat pillule cum succo artemisie et posunt etiam remormari cum syrupo de sticados post cenam levem sine guardia sunt. Contra alla inflacione deli ochi per doglia di capo. Rx. acqua rosa e olio rosato e sale trito et incorpora con uno legnio et metteli uno giozo di aceto. Poi li bagnia drento le peze et metteli sopra alla fronte e presto leva il dolore e fa dormire. Ad dolorem capitis probatum. Rx. suco di piantagine et uno poco di acqua rosa et uno di aceto et uno poco di latte di donna et uno chiar d’ovo frescho, ana, et il latte a discrecione dal piu al meno. Poi bagnia dele peze in ditta compositione et metti sun la fronte che agionga da una orechia al altra et andera via la doglia.