[English translation]


Another for one who does not hear.
Take the herb savin and common juniper, each the same amount, and cook them in good white wine until they reduce two-thirds and remove them from the fire and hold the ear to the warm steam, because it has such power that the hearing soon opens and it is a great help.

When you have water in the ears or other dampness.
Take a new tile and heat it well and put the ear on the tile and the heat will draw forth the water or other dampness that impedes the hearing.
All these are approved. Note that if you put brandy in the ears, it draws out the rheum and helps the brain. If you wash the posterior part of the head, it strengthens the powers of the memory.
Most perfect remedy for one who may be deaf.
Take mint, sage, pennyroyal, rosemary, hyssop, artemisia, horse mint, mountain mint, camomile, tansy, burdock, wormwood, southern wood and centaury, 1 handful each, and boil them with wine in a clean pot, reducing the wine from 4 fingers to 3, reducing 1/3. Then take 2 ounces of old oil, oil of leeks and of almonds, each 1 ounce, juice of rue 1 ounce, malvasia wine 1 ½ ounces and put them in a vessel. Then refill it with the above wine in which the herbs have been well pressed under the press. Put this vessel to boil in front of the fire until it reduces the juice and the malvasia. Then remove it from the fire and put therein these things, finely pulverized: lavender, colocynth, musk and mastic, each 1 ½ grains, and cork the vessel well and put it in a pot full of water and boil it for nearly 3 hours. Then remove it from the fire and let it stay in the sun until it becomes clear. Strain it through fine cloth and press out the substance well. Then take 3 grains of fine musk, well cut up, and incorporate with the oil. So that all will be well incorporated, shake it upside down. Then save it in a suitable vessel of glass, well covered with wax and parchment. Take the pot with those herbs and the wine that is remaining and heat it and when it is very hot put a funnel on the pot with the large end on the pot and make the narrow end enter the ear and take that steam for one half hour. From the fomentation that was made, take that oil very warm, and put 2 or 3 drops in the ear and cover it with heaped up cottonwool and at once go to sleep. When you use the fomentation, hold some dry beans in the mouth and break them up with your teeth and chew them well and spit them out. This is done to open all the porosity of the ears. And with the grace of God, soon you will be cured if it is possible that through medicine it can be cured. Many are cured in this way. If by chance the illness is not cured or there is no improvement, do not do anything else since this is the ultimate remedy. And do not marvel that any roaring comes in the ears not present before, only following the ointment, because this is a good sign of beginning to open the porosity, and do not doubt him who has suffered such infirmity for 30 years. I do not say from birth. Know that in a short time, through God's grace, you will see a great miracle. Use the pills plentifully that purge the head and eat good food and stay warm, nothing else.

Another to heal an ear that gives out pus.
Take 2 ounces of urine of a healthy child, 4 ounces of white wine and 2 ½ ounces of white honey and juice of mint and of rue, each one ounce, and put everything together and boil it very slowly. Then remove it from the fire and strain it and add ½ ounce of mother's milk and with this, tepid, repeatedly wash the ear when it exudes pus and put in some cottonwool and be confident that soon you will be cured.

Another for one who does not hear well.
Take 1 handful of marjoram, cut and well ground, and boil it with malvasia wine and ordinary oil on a bain marie until the malvasia is given off. Then strain it and put this oil in the ears that have difficulty in hearing. Do it in winter and not in summer, for that will make you sick. Put it on warm with cottonwool and soon you will hear. It is tested.

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[Italian transcript]

Item a quello medemo del non udire.
Torai erba savina e de ginepro, ana, et coseli in bono vino bianco tanto che cali li 2 terzi et levelo dal foco e tieni l’orechia sopra a quel fumo cosi caldo, perche a tal virtu che presto apre lo audito et dali grande aiutto.
Quando tu avesti aqua inele orechie overo altra humidita.
Rx. uno mattone novo et falo scaldare bene et sopra al ditto mattone li metti l’orechia et il calore tirera fora l’aqua o altra humidita che impedisse lo audito. Et tutte queste sono aprobate.
Nota che se tu metti l’aqua vite inele orechie, sapi che ella cava la rheuma e conforta el celebro, et se tu ti laverai la parte posterriore dela testa, conforta la memoria et le sue virtu.
A chi fusse sordo, remedio perfetissimo.
Rx. menta, salvia, pulegio, rosmarino, ysopo, artimisia, mentastro, calamento, camomilla, mile foglio, barbena, ascenso, abrottano e centaurea, ana m. uno, et fatele bolire con vino in pignata nova e che sopra avanza il vino 4 dita 3 calli il terzo. Poi torai olio antico onze ij, olio di porri e di mandole, ana onza j, suco di ruta onza j, malvagia onze js et metteli in una inchistara. Poi la reimpie col sopra ditto vino el quale e bene premuto le erbe sotto al torchieto et mettila la ditta inchistara a bolire dinanti al foco tanto che calli il suco e la malvagia. Poi levela dal foco et mettivi drento queste cose polverizate sutile: spico nardo, coloquintida, costoreo e mastice, ana grani uno ½, et turati bene la ditta inchistara et metetela in una pignata piena d’aqua et fatela bolire apresso a 3 ore. Poi levela dal foco et lassatela stare al sole tanto che la diventi chiara. Poi la colate per pezza suttila e premeti bene la sostantia. Poi pigliate muschio fino, grani 3, ben masinato et incorporato bene con el ditto olio et in tutti e modi chel sia bene incorporato voltandolo sotto sopra. Poi lo servate in vaso di vetro atto e ben coperto con cera e carta peccora. Poi pigliate la pignata con quelle erbe et con di quel vino chi e rimasto drento et fatela scaldare bene. Et quando e ben calda, mettetivi sopra uno imbuttello col largo sopra ala pignata et il stretto fatevelo intrare inel orechia et pigliate quello fumo per una meza ora et como aveti fatta la fumentatione fate chel detto olio sia ben caldo et metetene inel orechia 2 o 3 giocie et turatela con bambasa muschiata et subito andate a dormire. Et quando fate la ditta fumentatione tenete dele fave seche in bocha et rompeteli co[n] i denti e solititate bene et butateli fora e questo li fa per fare aprire tutte li porrosita dele orechie. Et con la gratia di dio, presto guarirai se e possibile che per medicina si possa sanarsi. Et molti ne sono guariti a questo modo. Et se per sorte l’amalato non si risanasse overo non pigliasse alcuno miglioramento, non gli fare altro che questo e l’ultimo remedio. Et non ti maravigliare che sole venire alcuni businamenti inel orechie non manchate seguitate pure la vostra ontione perche questo eli e bon segno che da principio ad aprire le porrosita et non dubitare che se l’avesse pattito 30 anni tale infirmita, non dico nato. Sappi che in breve tempo, per dei gratia, vedrati gran miracolo. Et fateli usare spesso pillore che li purgano la testa et ussare a mangiare boni cibi e star caldo, non altro.
Item a sanare una orechia chi menasse marza.
Torai orina di fanciullo sano onze ij e vino biancho onze iiij e mele bianco onze ijs e suco di menta e di ruta, ana onza j, et ogni cosa metti insieme e farai bolire pian piano. Poi lo leva dal foco et colalo et agiongeli drento latte di donna onza s et cosi tiepido lavati le orechie spesso quando manasseno marza et tiene drento dela bambasa e abi ne cura che presto guarirai.
Item a chi non udisse bene.
Rx. maiorana m. uno tagliata e ben pesta e fata bolire con malvasia e olio comune a bagno maria tanto che la malvasia sia exalata. Poi la cola et di quello olio metene le orechie che stenta a odire et lo usalo in verno et non la esta che ti faria male et presto ti fara odire e metilo caldo con bambasa. E de probata.