[English translation] A wonderfully drying ointment for erysipelas. Take 2 ounces of rose oil, 1 ounce of rose water, ½ ounce of rose vinegar and 3 ounces of mother's milk. Put everything together and wet some fine linen cloths and put them on the erysipelas and soon this will lift the pain.... 103 Also, you can do this other. Take 2 bowls of barley and boil it in a scant 3 flasks of water from a river and put therein 1 ounce of rock alum and 1 handful of dry red roses and reduce it in half. Then strain this water. First rub the erysipelas with rose oil and wet some cloths in this water and put them on the sick place 2 or 3 times a day and soon you will cure the erysipelas. Take care of the way you live. Another to remove erysipelas rapidly wherever it is. Take the center of a loaf of white bread and cook it in water. When it is cooked, remove it to a little plate and mix it wht rose oil and the yolk of a fresh egg. Do this 3 times a day and before you put it on the inflammation, spit 3 times in your hand and say a Pater Noster with the Ave Maria to the patient and take a little stick of wood or of broom and write with the spit 3 times around the erysipelas, 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of Judea,' with the sign of the cross. Then put on the bread crumb mixture, very warm, and let it stay on for 24 hours. Do this for 3 days and it will be clean and cured. It has been shown by me that as soon as the mixture was on the sick place, it removed my pain, but I did not drink wine and ate very lightly and I was cured. Another, a perfect remedy for choler. Take equal amounts of rose and violet oils and ordinary oil and elder bark of the white kind. Boil everything together on a slow fire. Add ½ ounce of clean wax and 1 ounce of powdered white lead and incorporate everything together until it forms and unguent and it will be made. Add 2 scruples of camphor and rub with this in the evening and morning and soon you will be cured. Take care of yourself, do not eat warming things and do not drink wine for 3 days and you will be cured.... 104 Another, a wonderful ointment for salt phlegm. Take 1 dram each of male incense, white lead, sulfur and hepatic aloe and 2 drams each of rose oil and white vinegar. Put the oil and the vinegar on a slow fire and as it begins to boil, put in the above things, all made into fine powder and ½ dram of clean wax, and when it has acquired enough body, remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and it will be made, a marvelous ointment. Use it to rub the sore places of the phlegm in the evening and morning and soon you will be cured of it.... 105 And say over them this prayer, after a Pater Noster, 'God was born, God was taken, bound, betrayed, afflicted and crucified and died for our miserable sins. God was resurrected on the third day, according to the scripture, and as this is true so this illness cannot decay, nor putrefy, nor cause any pain if it is the pleasure of God and of the Virgin Mary.' Make the sign of the cross over them and soon you will be cured. Another, an oil for every developing growth. Take a squash that has been in oil, roast it and collect the oil that is distilled through the heat of the fire. Then put some bitter herbs of any kind in this oil and a little bunch of squill bulbs and a few earthworms washed in white wine and a little mastic. Boil everything on a bain marie. Then strain it and press the herbs in the press so that it gives up all the substance into the oil. Hold this oil dear because as it ages, it gains greater power. When you want to rub the developing growth, make it very warm and rub several times and the growth will decrease and truly not progress. You will soon be cured of this illness. Another to cure the sickness of erysipelas. Say over the sickness the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria and this prayer, viz. + 'In the name of the good Jesus may this sickness not grow more. In the name of Saint Angeletta this sickness is ended. In the name of Saint Anastasia and the glorious Virgin Mary this sickness must go away. Amen.' *Another good remedy for the salt phlegm. Take 1 ounce each of strained butter and turpentine, the yolk of one fresh egg, juice and pulp of one orange, 10 grains of saffron and make an unguent. Rub the sick person with this in the evening when he goes to sleep, using the unguent warm. ---------- [Italian transcript] Resipula onto mirabile disecativo. Rx. olio roxato onze ij, aqua roxa onza j, aceto roxato onza s, latte di donna onze iij et ogni cosa mette insieme et bagnarai drento dele peze line suttile et mettele sul male dela resipula et presto ti levera il dolore. Et etiam farai quest altro. Torai orzo 2 scudelle et fallo bolire in 3 fiaschi di aqua corente et mettivi drento alume di roca onza j e roxe seche rosso m. uno et calli la meta. Poi colerai la ditta aqua. Et prima ongerai la resipula con olio roxato et bagnerai dele peze in ditta aqua et metteli sopra al male 2 o 3 volti al giorno et presto guarirai dela resipula. Conservati del vivere. Item ala resipula e sia dove si voglia, presto mandarla via. Rx. la mirolla di un pane bianco et falla cosere inel aqua. Poi che sera cotta, cavela fuora in un piateletto et la distempera con olio roxato et uno torlo d’ovo frescho et questo farai per 3 volte, una volta al giorno. E inanti che tu la metti sun la resipulo, spudati 3 volte inela tua mano et farai dire al paciente uno pater noster con l’ave maria et torai uno sechetto di legno o di granata et scrivi con questo sputo 3 volte intorno ala resipula, ‘Jesus nazareno, rex judeorum,’ col segno di +. Poi meterai sopra la panata che la sia ben calda et lassela stare cossi suso 24 ore et farai cosi 3 di et serai bello e guarito. E questo e di provata che subito chel fu sul male mi levo il dolore ma io non bevi vino e mangiai molto ligermente, e guarira. A colera perfecto rimedio. Rx. olio roxato e violato e olio comune, ana, et scorza di sanbucho di quella biancha a tua discrecione et farai bolire ogni cosa insieme a lento foco et agiongeli cera nova onza s e biacha in polvere onza j et incorpora bene insieme tanto che venga a modo di unguento et sera fatto. Agiongeli scropuli 2 di canfora et ongi sera e mattina et presto guarirai. Et conservati del vivere, non mangiare cose calide e non bere vino per 3 di e guarirai. Item a una flegma salsa, onto mirabile. Rx. incenso maschio, cerusa, solfo e aloe patico, ana onza j, olio roxato e aceto bianco, ana onze ij, et metti l’olio e l’aceto al foco lento et como incomincia a bolire, mettivi drente le predette cose tutte fatte in polvere suttile e cera nova onza s et quando avera preso al quanto corpo leve dal foco et mesta finche e fredo e sera fatto, mirabile onto et lo adopererai a ongere il male dela flema sera e matina e presto tu ne guarirai. Et li dirai sopra questa oratione prima il pater noster. ‘Dio naque, dio fu preso e legato, tradito e passionato, crucifisso e morto per noi miseri piccatori. Dio rissusito il terzo di secundo la scrittura et cosi commo questo e vero, cosi questo male non possa ne marcie, ne putrefare, ne entrare alcuno dolore se gli e in piacimento di dio et dela vergine maria.’ Et fali sopra un segno di + e presto guarirai. Item olio ad ogni male nassente. Rx. una zucha dove sia statto drento del olio et brusela et ricoglie quelo olio che si destilla per forza del foco. Poi metterai inel ditto olio dele erbe amare e d’ogni sorte et uno spicarello di cipolla squilla et uno poco di lombrici teresti lavati con vino biancho et uno poco di mastice. Poi farai bolire ogni cosa a bagno maria. Poi lo colerai et premi le erbe sotto al torchietto acio che bene nescha la sustantia in ditto olio. Et questo olio ti[e]ntelo caro perche con piu egli e vechio con questa magiore virtu. Et quando vorai ongere il mal nassente fa chel sia ben caldo e ongelo spesse volte et il male ritornera in drieto e non vera inanti et di questo male presto ne guarirai. Item a guarire del male dela resipilla. Dirai sopra al male il pater noster et l’ave maria et quella oratione, vz. +‘A nome del bon yehsu, questo mal non cresca piu et santa angeletta, questo male se netezza e de santa nestasia et dela gloriosa vergine maria questo mal se vada via, amen.’ *Item a flema salsa bono rimedio. Rx. butiri colati, termentine, ana onza j, vitelli ovi recentis no. j, suci pomi, unius aranzii, croci grana x et fiat unguentum. De quo ungatur infirmus in sero quando vadit dormitum calefaciendo dictum unguentum.