[English translation] To cure the nipples of the breasts when they may be hardened or with some cracks. Take 1 ounce each of violet oil and white wax and ½ ounce of ground incense and mix everything together and stir well and with this rub the nipples of the breasts or the cracks and soon they will be cured. Another for pain in the nipples. Take 1 handful each of dry roses and mallow and cook them. Then cut them finely and put therein rose oil, unwashed butter and barley flour, the amounts at your discretion, and mix it well and put it warm on the breast. If by bad luck a nipple was broken open, medicate first with unguento basilicone and then put on this warm poultice. Do this several times and soon you will cure. Even if they may discharge matter or may be swollen and red, you will cure them soon. Another for cracked nipples. Take brandy, rose oil and powder made from the soles of old shoes that are roasted. Put equal amounts of the oil and powder on the fire and incorporate these and with this salve, rub the nipples of the breasts and soon will you cure them. It should be warm. Another for hair of the nipples of the breast caused by having eaten some hair inadvertently. First say 3 Pater Noster and 3 Ave Maria and also have someone near say them. Where it may be appropriate to the sickness, do it this way or do this in a circle, as you prefer, with the cross in the middle and say these 4 words, ' Rex, Lex, Lux, Pax .' That is enough and soon it will be cured without anything else.... 99 Another for cracks on the breast and also good for lips and hands. Take 1 ounce each of marrow of veal, oil of sweet almonds and clean wax and put everything in a little pot and mix it well and it will be made. With this salve rub the cracks several times and shortly you will cure them. To increase the milk in the breasts and to make it come forth. Take marsh mallow, well cooked and well ground with pork lard, and flaxseed flour and well ground fenugreek, the amount of everything at your discretion, and incorporate them on the fire. Put it on the breasts and it will work well for you and the milk will be increased. Another for one who may have lost milk. Take a hoof of a cow, roast it and make very fine powder and give it to the woman who has lost her milk to drink with wine or warm broth with sugar and soon her milk will return. Another in whom the milk has been lost. Take some of the herb burdock, grind it and extract the juice and give 2 or 3 ounces to drink warm, with sugar in it, to the woman who has lost her milk and she will have it in abundance. Another for the woman who has lost milk either through fear or through other mishap. Find a plant of burdock, and, kneeling, say the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria and say, 'Holy plant, through the power that God has given you, so may you give me some milk as you wish and not as much as you can.' First make over it the sign of the cross. Then pick 3 leaves and eat them. Then uproot the plant and let it dry. At once there will be so much milk that you will not know what to do with it. It has been tested. Another to make milk come and increase in women. Take the green leaves of fennel and boil them with wine or with water. The woman should drink it at meals and before meals, as much as she can, and her milk will be plentiful. If she still suffers from retention of flow or has only ordinary flow, this is the usual medicine. Another to make enough milk. Take 1 ounce each of mouse droppings and long pepper and make very fine powder and give it to the woman to drink with broth or wine with sugar and soon there will be as much as she will want and she will not need more. Another for an illness of the nipples of the breasts. Take the yolks of 2 fresh eggs, 2 quatrini of clean wax, a little rose oil and a packet of zinc carbonate prepared with rose water. Incorporate everything on the fire in a clean little pot and when it is cool, spread it on a cloth and put it on the sore place. First wash it with white wine in which roses, plantain and leaves of the green olive have been cooked. Then dry the sore place and put the poultice on and you will heal it quickly. ---------- [Italian transcript] A guarire li capitelli dele tette quando fussino indurite o con qualche setola. Rx. olio violato e cera biancha, ana onza j, e incenso pesto onza s et incorpora ogni cosa insieme, mosto bene et con esso ongeti li capitelli dele mamelle overo setoli et presto guarirano. Item al dolore deli capitelli. Rx. roxe seche e malva, ana m. uno. Fale cosere. Poi tagliale minute et mettivi drento olio roxato e butiro non lavato e farina d’orzo a tua discretione et incorpora bene et caldo mettilo sun la tetta. Et se per cat[i]va sorte la fusse rotto mediche la prima con unguento basalicone et poi metti sopra el ditto enpiastro caldo et questo falo piu volte e guarirai etiam che menasseno marza assai o fusseno enfiate e rosse presto guarirai. Item ale setoli di capitelli. Torai aqua vite e olio roxato e polvere fatta di suola di scarpe vecchie brussate e mettene in ditto olio, ana, et mettilo al foco et falo incorporare et con ditto onto ongeti li capitelle dele tette e presto guarirai. Fa chel sia caldo. Item al pelo dela poppa de capitelli causato per avere mangiato alcun pelo inadvertemente. Primamente dirai 3 pater nostri e 3 ave marie et fale dire anche a circonstanti et dove sera il proprio male tu li farai overo li farai fare questo tondo como tu vedi con la + in meze e con queste 4 parole, ‘rex, lex, lux, pax.’ Et lasse lo stare cosi e presto guarira senza altro. Item per le setole dele tette e bono ancora ali labra e per mano. Rx. midolla de vitello e olio di mandole dolce e cera nova, ana onza j, et metti ogni cosa in uno pignatino et falo bene incorporare et sera fatto et con ditto onto ongiti le setole spesse volte et in breve guarirai. A molificare il latte inele tette et farlo venire fuora. Rx malva vischio ben cotto e ben pisto con songia di porcho et farina di seme lino e fengreco ben pesto, ogni cosa a tua dischretione et la incorpora al foco et mettilo sun le mamelle e ti fara honore e se molificherano. Item a chi avesse perso il latte. Torai una ungia di vacha, brusela et fane polvere sutilissima et falla la bevere a quella donna chi a perso il latte con vino o brodo caldo con zucharo et presto li ritornera. Item a chi a perso il latte. Torai del erba barbena, pestela et cavene suco et dane onze ij o iij a bere caldo con zucharo drento ala donna chi a perso il latte et ne fara abondantemente. Item a quella donna chi a perso il latte o per paura o per altro inconveniente. Trouverai una pianta di erba barbena, id est erba di san jone, et inzinochiati et dirai il pater noster et l’ave maria. Et dirai, ‘Verminacha per la virtu che dio te datta che tu me dia del latte quello che tu voi et non quello che tu puoi.’ Et falli prima sopra uno segno di +. Poi spichane 3 foglie e mangiale et poi sbarba la pianta et lassela sechare. Et subito te abondera tanto il latte che non saperai che farne. E di provata. Item a fare venire et multiplichare il latte alle donne. Torai foglie verde di finochio et fateli bolire con vino o con aqua et la donna ne beva a pasto e fora di pasto piu spesso che ella pole et li abondera di molto latte. Et se ancora patisse di retentione di mestruo o corso ordinario questa e medicina ordinaria. Item a fare del latte assai. Torai cachature di toppi e pepi longo, ana onza j, et fane polvere sutilissima et dalla a bere ala donna con brodo o vino con zucharo et presto ne fara quanto ne vorra che non la sapia. Item al male di capitelli dele tette. Pigliati 2 rossi d’ovi freschi e 2 quatrini di cera nova e uno poco di olio roxato e uno pochetto di tucia preparata con aqua rosa. Et incorporate ogni cosa al foco in uno pignatino netto et como e fredo stendetilo insu una peza et metti sopra’l male. Ma prima la lava con vino bianco dove sia statto cotto drento roxe e piantagine e foglie di oliva verde. Poi la suga et meti sopra l’empiastro e presto ti sanerai.