[English translation] Ointment for rash. Take 5 ounces of olive oil and 1 ounce of laurel oil and put them in a little pot on the fire and when it boils put therein 2 ounces of crushed white lead, ½ ounce each of clean wax and rock alum and a pinch of ground salt and boil it until it thickens. Then remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and put in the juice of 2 lemons and it will be made. In the evening rub the rash throughly and soon you will cure it. This is an easy ointment. Ointment to remove a rash. Take 1 ½ lb. of white wine, 3 ounces each of white sulfur and incense, 1 ½ ounces of ground salt, 2 ounces of lard and 1 ½ ounces of clean wax. Boil it on a slow fire until it reduces more that one half of the wine and remove it from the fire and add 1 ½ drams of liquid storax and stir until everything is well incorporated and it will be made. Then rub the rash thoroughly and soon you will be cured. Wash yourself and change clothes and you will not have any more sickness. You are cured. For parturition and against quartan fever. Take a baby swallow in the nest on a day in March and remove the eyes with a needle or stylet and then bind a thread of silk on one foot. Return it to the nest and let it stay there for 4 days and at the same hour that you removed the eyes, take it and kill it and you will find in the stomach 3 little stones, one red, one white and the third green....[Comment: The rest of the remedy is censored with a marginal note: 'I do not advise that this be done. It is a superstition.'] Odorous pills against fever made of wild cucumber and they are laxative. Take the quantity that you want of wild cucumbers and let them stay piled up together so that they are warmed up. Then grind them and press them on the press. Extract the substance well, filter it and let it stay in a basin in the sun until it becomes firm in the way that one might be able to make a dough of it, in order to make these pills. When you wish to make them, put in a little rose honey and a grain of salt and a little powder of sweet fennel and incorporate these well together. Then form your pills. These are given to evacuate the body vigorously. Give one or 2 or 3 each time but not too much because they have a strong action and take into account the person to whom it is given. If he is robust stop at 3 and not more and you will see a good effect. To send away chills with fever. Take 2 scruples of euphorbia and steep it in 1 ounce of brandy. Then take 2 ounces of wormwood juice and incorporate these together. Give 1 ½ ounces to the patient to drink two hours before the chills and fever may come and the chills will not come. Then give one of the pills above and no more sickness will come, through God's grace. ---------- [Italian transcript] Onto da rogna. Rx. olio di oliva onze v, e olio laurino onza j et metilo in una pignatino al foco et quando bole metivi drento biacha violata onze ij, cera nova, lume di rocha, ana onza s, e uno po poco di sale trita et tanto bola che piglia corpo. Poi levelo dal foco et mesta finche e fredo e meteli in suchio di 2 limoni et sera fato. Et la sera te ongi la rogna sutilmente e presto guarirai e questo eli e onto facile. Item a mandare via la rogna. Torai vino bianco lb. is, solphero incanna e incenso, ana onze iij, sale trito onze js e strutto onze ij e cera nova onze js. Poi fallo bolire a lento foco tanto che calli piu dela meta del vino et levelo dal foco et li agiongi storas liquido drame js et mesta tanto che ogni cosa sia bene incorporato e sera fatto. Poi ongeti la rogna sutilmente e presto guarirai, lavati e mudati et non averai male veruno como sei guarito. Al parturire e contra ala febre quartana. Rx. uno rondenino novello inel nido in die martis et caveli li occhii con l’ago overo con uno stillo et poi legali un filo di seta a un piede e poi lo torna nel nido et lasselo stare drento per 4 di et in quella hora che li cavasti li ochii e ponto piglialo e amarzalo et li troverai inel ventre 3 pietrelle, una rossa, una biancha et l’altra verde…..[Il rimedio si e cancellato. Nota: *Non vi consiglio a farla, e suprestitione.] Pillore odorate fatto di cocumeri assenini e sono solutivi contra febre. Rx. li cocumeri assenini la quantita che ne voi et lasseli stare amuchiati insieme che si riscaldano. Poi pestali e premali sotto al torchietto, cavene bene la sustantia, colelo et lasselo stare in una catinella al sole tanto chel diventi sodo in modo che se ne possa fare pasta per fare le ditte pillore. Et quando li vorai fare, mettivi drento um poco di mele roxato e uno granelino di sale e um poco di polvere di finochio dolce et incorpora bene insieme. Poi formerai le tue pillore. Et queste si dano per vacuare il corpo e galiardamente e se ne da una o 2 o 3 per volta, ma si fano piccolo perche menano galiardamente et considera la persona a che li da et se li e robusto fina in 3 e non piu et vedrai opera bella. A mandare via il freddo dela febre. Rx. euforbio scropuli ij et metilo a mole in onza j di aqua vite. Poi piglierai onze ij di suco di assentio et incorpora insieme. Poi ne darai a bere al paciente onze js doi ori avanti che li venga la febre fredda et piu non li vera il freddo. Poi li darai una dele sopra ditte pillore e piu non li vera male, per dei gratia.