[English translation] Most excellent and rapidly-acting secrets for one who cannot urinate. Take some of those little animals that are called porcelets or sow bugs that roll up in a circle like a rosary and stay in the moisture under bricks. Take an amount that are clean and put them between two pans and dry them in the oven after the bread is removed. Grind them and make very fine powder and save it for your needs. Then give the patient a spoonful of it to drink with broth or wine and also with 3 ounces each of water distilled from pellitory and celandine with 1 ounce of ground sugar. Give it warm in the form of a syrup. Then make the patient draw near to the fire so that the warmth feels good and soon the desire to urinate will come and he will urinate. This medicine is most appropriate for one who has not been able to urinate for a day or more and where the urine has been going between flesh and skin and for one who may be turning yellow and swollen from not being able to urinate. Whether it is a man or a woman, soon either will be freed, through God's grace. This has been tested many times by men worthy of belief.... 78 Also give repeatedly to drink 3 ounces each of tepid water distilled from pellitory and celandine with sugar in it and soon the patient will urinate. Also put on the pubic region a sachet with some warm ashes in it and you will provoke urine rapidly and the patient will urinate at his pleasure. Another for one who is not able to urinate. Take some roots of reed, of broad beans and of asparagus, each the same amount, wash them well, cut them and distill them in a glass still. Then give a glass of it with ½ ounce of fine sugar to the patient to drink early in the morning in the form of a syrup and as much again when he goes to bed. He will soon urinate with much gravel. Another. Take a radish or a white radish and grate it and put this, very fresh, on the pubic region and soon it will provoke urine. First take some warm and suitable beverage by mouth and you will urinate abundantly and you will urinate much gravel. Another to cause urination freely. Take 1 handful each of celery seed, endive seed and fresh anise seed and crush all these seeds, not too finely, and make 2 small bags with an amount the size of the hand and have a clean pot with good malvasia or the best white wine in it. Put it on the fire to boil until it is ready. Then put in one of these little bags and immediately remove the pot from the fire. Take out the sack and press it well and put this very warm on the pubic region but first shave the region and rub it with equal amounts of warm sweet almond oil and scorpion oil. Then put on the warm sack and when it is cold, remove it and put on the other from the wine that should be very warm, always rubbing first with the warm oils. Keep putting on one after the other and do not let the flesh chill. By doing this good remedy, at the end of 2 hours one will urinate as much as one wishes. Know that this is a rare secret to cause urination. Another to cause urination in a large amount and also a lot of gravel. Take one large, fat young cockerel, clean it well and carefully and put it in a large cooking pot with water enough so there is no need to add any more and cook it well so the bones detach from the flesh and leave it there. Then put in, to boil together, 1 handful each of roots of celery, of parsley, of mallow, of marsh mallow and of sweet fennel and boil until they are well cooked in the broth. Strain it finely and keep it in a cool place and every morning, as long as it lasts, drink a cup with ½ ounce of finely-ground sugar. First put a little sack full of warm ashes on the pubic region and soon it will make you urinate and with much gravel. If you may be undergoing the pain of stone, by continuing this beverage, it will soon break up the stone and you will urinate it little by little, through the virtue of these herbs and roots. ---------- [Italian transcript] A chi non pole horinare, secreti belitissimi e presto. Rx. di quelli animaleti che li dimandano porcellini, che sono bisi che si ringrizola intondo come un pater nostro che stano al umedo soto a mattoni. Pigliane una quantita che siano netti. Metteli intra doi tegami et fali seccare nel forno quando eli e cavato il pane. Pestali e fane polvere sutilissima et serbela ali tuoi bisogni. Poi ne darai al paciente a bere uno chugiaro con brodo o vino overamente con aque stillate de vitriola e cilidonia, ana onze iij, con zucharo drento trito onza j e datta calda a modo di syropo. Poi falo acostare al foco con le cosse che senta bene il caldo presto li verra apetitto di orinare e orinera. Et questa sie medecina aprobatissima ha uno il quale fusse statto un di o piu che non avesse potuto horinare et che l’orina fusse andatta tra carne e pelle e fusse venuto giallo e besinfio per causa del non potere horinare et sia chi si voglia homo o donna, presto se liberera, per dei gratia, per essere probata parechie volte da homini degni di fide. Et etiam li darai spesse volti a bere aqua stillata di vitriola e cilidonia, ana onze iij, con zucaro drento tiepida et presto horinera. Et etiam li metterai sul petignone uno sachetto con drento dela cenere calda e presto li provocherai l’orina e pissera a suo piacere. Item a chi non pole horinare. Rx. dele radice di canna e radice di fave e di sparasi, ana, lavele bene e tagliale et fale lambichare a lambicho di vetro. Poi ne darai a bere al paciente uno bichiere la matina per tempo a modo di syropo e al quanto se ripossa e metivi drento onza s di zucharo fino e presto horinera e di molta ranella. Item . Torai una radice overo uno ravanello e raspelo et cosi frescho frescho mettilo sul petignone e presto ti provochera l’orina. Pigliando prima qualche bevanda calda per bocha che sia atta accio et pisserai habondantemente et farai di molta ranella. Item a fare horinare e largamente. Rx. semente di appio e di endivia e di anesi crudi, ana m. uno. Et pesterai tutte queste semente non tropo sutile et ne farai 2 sachettini in bottiti quanto e la mano et si haverai una pignata nova con drento bona malvasia overo optimo vino biancho et mettila al foco tanto como se volesse bolire. Poi metteli drento uno di quelli 2 sachettino et subito leva la pignatta dal foco et caverai fora quello sachettino et premilo bene. Et cosi caldo, caldo lo metti sul petignone ma prima radi’l petignone et ongilo con olio de mandole dolce e olio de scropioni, ana, e chel sia caldo. Poi meti sopra’l sachetino cosi caldo et como quello e fredo levelo et metti suso quell altro chel sia ben caldo sempre ongendo prima con ditto olio e caldo et sempre meti l’uno dopo l’altro et non lassare raffredare la carne et facendo questo bon rimedio in termine di 2 ore horinera tanto quanto lui vorra. E sapi che questo e uno rari secreti per fare horinare. Item a fare horinare e assai et etiam di molta ranella. Rx. uno grosso e grasso polastro e nettalo bene e politamente et mettilo in uno caldaio grande e con aqua assai che non abia causa agionruene niente et falo ben cosere che l’osso sespichi dala carne et lasselo cosi drento. Poi li metterai drento a bolire insieme radice de appio e di predissemino e di malva e di malva vischio e di finochio dolce, ana m. uno, et tanto bola che siano ben cotti in ditto brodo. Poi lo colerai sutilmente et serbalo in loco fresco et ogni matina finche dura ne beverai una taza con onza s di zucharo fino trito. Et metendoti prima sul petenichio il sachettino pieno di cenere calda e presto ti fara horinare e assai et etiam di molta ranella et se tu fusti sotto posto adolore di pietra continuando tu questa bevanda presto te la fara rompere et la pisserai a poco a poco per la virtu dele ditte erbe e radice.