[English translation] Wonderful water for cattarh. Take one quatrino each of hepatic aloe and raw honey and a little Roman pellitory, licorice, hyssop and barley, each the same amount. Then put everything in a large pot full of water and boil it at least until all are cooked. Then remove it from the fire and strain it and press it very well to get all the substance. Then take a little of it warm, one evening yes, the next no, and you will see a wonderful effect in cleaning out this infirmity by spitting out a large amount of catarrhal material which is very hard on the stomach. The spitting out that you will do will cure you quickly. It is tested. Another for catarrh in several ways. Take some absinthe and wear it on the head and it will not allow the catarrh to descend. Take powdered ginger and compound it with hyssop, licorice and gum arabic and put everything into wine and use this to drink and you will be helped greatly. Take 1 ounce each of galingale, mace and nutmeg, 6 ounces each of ginger and cinnamon, 4 ounces of cultivated cubeb, 3 ounces each of saffron, cloves, lavender and cardamon, 2 ounces of long pepper, and 1 ounce of grains of paradise and make fine powder of all these and use it several times and the catarrh will give you no more trouble. Use powdered rosemary in your beverages. For one who has much rheum in the head or may spit a lot, put some camomile in lye and with this repeatedly wash your head and it will help a great deal. Very fine electuary against catarrh. Take ½ ounce each of cumin, prepared coriander and flowers of rosemary and half a dram each of pepper, cinnamon and saffron, 3 drams of tartar from white wine, ½ ounce of juice of rue and as much cleaned honey as needed. Everything should be ground and finely pulverized. Then mix everything together and you will make a good electuary. Then at supper take a dose and you will see a wonderful effect in a few days.... 33 For one who has tremor of the head and also the hands. Take roots of peony and roots of erba bona and of parsley and dill seed, each the same amount, and boil all these things in well water in a clean pan until it reduces in half. Then strain it and press the herbs well and use this decoction to drink in the morning as a syrup and soon you will be cured. Also take the center of a loaf of bread and make toast and put this warm to soften in very strong vinegar and soak it well. Then put it on the paralyzed or shaking member and you will see a great improvement. Another. Take some sage and boil it and with this decoction wash the arms and hands and let it dry on them. Then take the juice of this sage and with this rub your hands repeatedly and do this at least 2 or 3 times a day and soon it will cure you. Also take this sage and cook it with wine. Then put this herb, warm, on the wrists and it will help you greatly. Another to restore one who becomes paralyzed. Take bile from a bull and dry it and make very fine powder and give the sick one some of it to drink every morning and he should eat it in all ways and in a few days he will recover. Another for tremor of the limbs. Take juice of wormwood blended with ordinary oil and rub it, warm, repeatedly on those limbs that tremble. It will be of great benefit and, by continuing this, you will cure. Another remedy for paralysis. Take sage, betony, rue, cinquefoil, roots of fennel, parsley and celery, each the same amount, and triturate everything and incorporate it with very good wine and boil until it reduces ¼. Then strain it and press well and give the one who trembles 4 ounces per dose to drink early in the morning, warm in the form of a syrup, for 30 days. With the aid of God soon he will be improving and will not tremble any more, if the sickness is recent. ---------- [Italian transcript] Al catarro, aqua mirabile. Rx. aloe epatico e mele crudo, ana uno quatrino, e uno poco di pilatro e de rigolitia, e ysopo, e di orzo, ana. Poi metti ogni cosa in una inchistara grande e piena di aqua e mettila a bolire tanto che manchi tutto’l collo. Poi la levi dal foco et la cola e premila molto bene chel ne essi la substantia. Poi ne torai una sera si, e l’altra no, um poco caldetta et vedrai mirabile effetto in farti spurgare ditta infermita per via disputtare gran matteria cattarrosa la quale molto se e indurita sun lo stomacho et ispudata che tu l’arai presto serai guarito. E di prova. Item al catarro in piu modi. Torai delo assencio et usalo a portare sopra’l capuo et non lassera dissendere il catarro. Torai zenzero in polvere et componilo con ysopo et regolicia et goma rabica et poni ogni cosa in vino et di quello usa a bere et ti zovera molto. Torai galanga, macis, noce moschata, ana onza j, zenzaro, cinamomo, ana onze vj, cubebe domestiche onze iiij, zafferano, garoffani, spigo nardo, cardamomi, ana onze iij, pepi longo onze ij, meleghetta onza j et di tutte le preditte cose ne farai polvere suttile et la usi alcuna volta e non ti dara noia. Usa inel tuo bere polvere de osmarino et etiam chi avesse assai reugma inela testa o sputasse assai, metti dela camomilla in la lissia et con quella spesso ti lavi la testa et molto ti zovera, e assai. Lattovario contra’l catarro, molto nobile. Rx. comino, coriandoli preparati, fiori di osmarino, ana onza s, pepi, canella, zafferano, ana mezo ottavo, tartaro di vin biancho drame iij, suco di ruta onza s et mele spiumato quanto basta et ogni cosa sia pesto e sutilmente spolverizato. Poi componi ogni cosa insieme et farai bono lattuario et da poi cena ne piglierai una presa et vedrai mirabil effeto in pochi giorni. A chi tremasse il capo et etiam le mane. Rx. dele radice di peonia e radice di erba bona e di pretesemino e somente di aneto, ana, et tutte queste cose fale bolire in una pignata nova tanto che calino la metta con aqua di pozo. Poi colala et premi bene le erbe et dela ditta dicotione ne usa a bere la matina a modo de syropo e presto guarirai. Et etiam torai la mirolla del pane e fala brostolare et cossi calda la metti amole in aceto fortissima e chel sia bene insupato. Poi lo metti sopra ali membri paraletici e tremana et vedrai opera bella di gran miglioramento. Item. Torai dela salvia e fala bolire et con la ditta dicotione li lava le braza e le mane et lassa sugare da se. Poi averai del suco dela ditta salvia et con esso li frega le mane spesso et farai questo al mancho 2 o 3 volte al giorno e presto guarira. Et etiam torai dela ditta salvia e cosela con vino. Poi meterai la dita erba cosi calda sun li polsi e grandemente li zovera. Item a soccorere a chi diventasse paralitico. Rx. fiele di toro e falo sechare et fane polvere sutilissima et danne a bere ogni matina ala malato et ne mangia in tutti i modi et in pochi giorni si risanera. Item al tremore de membri. Torai suco del artimisia mescolato con olio comune et caldo ongiti quelli membri che tremano spesse volte et renderati beneficio grande. E presto continuandolo, guarirai. Item ali paralitici, rimedium. Rx. salvia, bertonica, ruta, pentafilon, radice de finochio, petrosello, appio, ana, et ogni cosa trita et incorpora con bonissimo vino et fa bolire chel calli il quarto. Poi lo cola e premi bene et ne darai a bere al tremante la matina per tempo caldo a modo de syropo, onze iiij per spacio di 30 giorni, et, con l’aiutto di dio, presto andera migliorando et non tremera piu, essendo il male fresscho.