[English translation] For the digestion in the stomach. Take the root of lappola , that is ground furze, and clean it carefully and scrape it well and separate the center and take the softer part and eat that with salt and pepper before the meal and it will warm up the stomach and comfort it completely, helping you digest without difficulty.... 53 Another to help the stomach of one who has lost appetite. Take 6 to 8 grains of pepper and cut each grain in 2 or 3 parts. Do not crush them; it is better so. In the evening infuse it in two fingers of racese wine or other great wine like corso or malvasia. Early in the morning drink it and swallow the pepper and rest for a while or walk in a closed room for 2 hours and you will feel movement in your body and a good stomach. Do this for 3 mornings in a row and you will be cured.... 54 Another to provoke the appetite. Take 2 ounces each of sumac, acacia, mastic and roses and to these add oil and wax enough to make a poultice and put it warm on the top of the stomach and as the stomach is warmed your appetite will return at once. *To make the stomach good and to cure headache. Take well-cleaned roots of marsh mallow and cook them throughly in water. Then grind up pistachios to make ½ lb. and take ½ lb. of Venice turpentine and recook everything together. Then save it in a vessel for your needs. In the morning take an amount the size of a nut and it will give you a very good stomach. It is tested. Dominick.... 55 Best remedy for dry cough. Take 1 ounce of ground licorice and 12 dry figs and 2 ounces of barley sugar and boil these things in a flask of very good white wine until it reduces 1/3. Then strain it and put therein a little tragacanth. Drink this beverage warm and, by continuing it, you will soon be cured of the cough. Also it cleans out your chest. This has been tested. Another for the new or old cough. Take some gum that forms as tears on cherry trees and dissolve it with good wine and a little water and heat it and drink it in the form of a syrup. Keep yourself warm. That wine cures every old or new cough when you drink it and rest. Another, an electuary for cough. Take seeds of watercress, myrrh and clean honey and compound them in the form of an electuary. In the evening give it to the patient and soon he will be cured. The best remedy for stricture of the chest and heavy cough. Take 6 ounces of dry, fat figs and hyssop leaves dried in the shade and made into fine powder, and cut the figs finely. Then take 2 lbs. of honey and put these things together and boil and skim it very well. When it is cooked, strain it carefully and it will be made. Save it for your needs. In the evening, eat very little and you will be able to take an ounce of it. In the morning take a little more and it should be warm. Soon it will work well and it will help you a great deal. For the heavy cough make this beverage without fail. Take clean barley flour and cook it in a little pot with a little water so that it is a broth and put therein 1 ounce of clean honey and incorporate well. Then empty this liquid into a bowl and put in enough sugar and make it as warm as the patient can drink it and soon he will be cured. If he has a great cough give him a bowl of it to drink also in the evening. This beverage matures the coldness that is in the stomach so it makes you spit out a large amount through the mouth. Be the person young or old, he will soon be cured. The body and the head should be kept warm. Drink white wine and eat some licorice and soon you will be free of the cough. Another for the man or woman who may be chilled. Take old male pork fat and ordinary oil and chicken fat, each at your discretion, and a little saffron. First dissolve the fats and strain them. Then put in the oil and the saffron and incorporate them well on a slow fire. Rub the top of the stomach and the soles of the feet with this warm oil. By keeping the stomach and all of the body warm you will soon cure. It is tested. Another for flatulence from the stomach. Take parsley and rue and make juice of them and drink a glass of it and soon you will be cured. Remedy for stomach pain. Take 3 ounces each of juice of mint and of rue. Make it hot and drink it and the pain goes away at once. Another for the above pain of the stomach. Take gentian root and cook it in good white wine and eat the root and drink the wine and it will help you greatly in stomach pain. ---------- [Italian transcript] A smaltire sun lo stomacho. Rx. la radice dele lappole, id est bonaga, et nettela politamente e ben raspata et li leva quel da mezo et piglia li piu tenere parte et quelle mangia con sale e pepi inanti pasto e ti riscaldera lo stomacho et tutto lo conforta aiutandoti a smaltire senza passione. Item a fare bono stonacho a chi avesse perso lo apettito. Torai 6 o 8 granelli di pepi et taglia ciaschuno granello in 2 o 3 parte. Non lo pestare che e meglio cosi, et mettilo la sera in infusione in doi ditta di racese overo altro vino grande come corso o malvasia. Et la matina per tempo lo beva e ingolla el pepi et starai al quanto in riposso over pasegia in camera serrata per 2 ore et sentirai movimento di corpo e bono stomacho et questo farai per 3 matine continue e guarirai. Item a provocare lo apetitto. Torai sumac, acacia, mastice, roxe, ana onze ij, et con queste li angionge olio e cera tanto che basti affarne impiastro et caldo mettila sun la bocha delo stomacho et come lo stomacho e rischaldato subito ti ritornera lo apetitto. *A fare bono stomaco e guarire del dolore di testa. Rx. radice di malva vischio nettali bene et cosale bene con acqua. Poi fale passare pistachio et se sara lb. s. Pilia lb. s di melazo et ricosalo ogni cosa insieme. Poi conservalo in vaso ali toi bisogni et la matina ne piglia quanto e una noce e ti fara bonissimo stomaco. E provo. Domenico. Ala tosse seccha, optimo rimedio. Rx. rigolitia pesta onza j e fichi secchi no. 12 e peniti freschi onze ij, et queste cose fale bolire in uno fiascho di bonissimo vino biancho tanto che calli il terzo. Poi lo cola et mettivi drento um poco di draganti. Poi userai a bere dela ditta bevanda calda et continuandola presto guarirai dela tosse et ti fara anche purgare il petto. E di cosa aprobata. Item ala tosse nova e vechia. Torai dela goma che fa le piante dele cirese et fala disfare con bon vino e uno poco d’aqua insieme e fala scaldare e bevilo a modo de syropo et starai caldo dela tua persona, il qual vino cura ogni anticha et nova tosse, usando a berne et riposandosi. Item alla tosse, lattovario. Rx. seme di mastorci e mirra e mele purgato et componi a modo di lattovario et dane la sera al paciente e presto guarira. Ala strettura di petto et ala tosse grassa, remedio optimo. Rx. fichi secchi che siano grassi onze vj et ysopo in erba e falo seccare al ombra e fane polvere sutile et li fichi tagliali minuti. Poi torai lb. 2 di mele et mettivi drento ogni cosa et falo bolire e schiumalo molto bene. Poi chel sera cotto lo cola con diligentia et sera fatto. Serbalo ali tuoi bisogni et la sera mangiando poco tu ne potrai pigliarne un onza et la matina un poco di piu e chel sia caldo e presto ti fara bona operatione e zoverati assai. Item ala tosse grassa farai questa bevanda e non manchare. Torai farina di orzo netta et fala cosere in uno pignatino con uno poco di aqua e che la sia liquida et metivi drento onza j di mele purgato et incorpora bene. Poi la vota inela scodella cosi liquido et metivi sopra del zucharo assai et calda piu che si pole il paciente la beva e presto guarira. Et quando lui havesse gran tosse dagliene a bere una scudella anche la sera, la qual bevanda fa maturare quel freddore che e in sun lo stomacho et te lo fara gittare tutto per boccha e in gran quantita et sia persona giovine o vechio che presto guarira. E stia caldo dela persona e dela testa e bevi vino biancho e usa a mangiare dela regolitia et presto serai libero. Item ha homo che fusse raffredato overe donna. Torai songia vechia di porcho mastio e olio comune e grassa di gallina, ana a tua dischretione, e uno poco di zafferano. Et prima farai disfare i grassi e colali. Poi li metti l’olio, el zafferano et lo incorpora bene a lento foco et cosi caldo ongiti la boccha delo stomacho et le piante di piedi, tenendo caldo lo stomacho et tutta la persona, presto guarirai. Probatum est. Item a ventosita di stomacho. Rx. predesemino e ruta e fane suco e bevine uno bichiere e presto guarirai. Rimedio per lo dolore di stomaco. Rx. suco di menta e di ruta, ana onze iij, falo scaldare et bevilo e subito si parte il dolore e presto. Item al preditto dolore di stomaco. Rx.radice di gentiana et fala cosere in bon vino bianco et mangia la radice e bevi il vino et grandemente ti giovera al dolore di stomaco.