[English translation]

Several kinds of very rare remedies for painful colics.
Take 6 ounces of the oldest olive oil that you can find, 3
quatrini
each of saffron, incense and powdered cloves, 20 laurel berries and 1 ounce of clean wax. Pulverize everything and put them together in a little pot on a slow fire for the period of one miserere. Remove it from the fire, stirring continuously until it is cold and it will be made. Save it for your needs. When you want to use it, warm it and rub the body well and put on warm cloths and turn on your back. In the space of one hour you will begin to get improvement and, with the aid of God, soon you will be freed of the painful colic and you will not feel more distress.

Another.
Take sifted flour and flour of millet and boil them with oil of rue and of camomile, the same amount of each, and with this warm rub the body and soon you will be cured.

Another against painful colics.
Take 2 handfuls of elder flowers, 1 ounce of sweet flag, 3 ounces each of pulverized peach kernels and cherry stones, 2 ounces of pulverized medlar stones, 1 ounce of mullein root and 6 lb. of table wine or malvasia. Put all together in a well-stoppered glass vessel for 3 days. Then distill it and save this distillation for your needs. Give the patient 2 or 3 ounces at a time in the form of a warm syrup and soon he will be cured. This was proved in a gentleman who was given up for lost.

Another against painful colics.
When you are at mass, when the body of Christ is lifted, say 'Pure host and holy body, Lord Jesus Christ, free me from the pain of my side.' When the blood is lifted, say 'O worthy body, O holy blood, Lord Jesus Christ, free me from the sickness in my side.' At the end say one Pater Noster and soon you will be cured.

Another against painful colics.
Take some of Job's tears planted this year, break them up and extract the good, dry it and make fine powder of it. Give one spoonful of it to the patient to drink with ½ glass of good warm wine and soon the pain will stop. It is tested.

Another for these illnesses of the side.
Take galbanum gum and make a round plaster of it and put thereon powdered cloves and heat it well and put it on the navel and do not move it but let it detach itself from its place and you will see a good effect. It is tested.

Another.
Elder flowers given to drink with warm wine help the pain in the side greatly. Do this several times and soon it will be cured. It has been tested.

Another against pain in the sides.
Take 6 ounces of water distilled from elder flowers and put in 2 ounces of ground sugar, heat it and give it to the patient to drink as soon as he feels the illness. At the end of one hour he will begin to improve. This was tested by a bishop who was on a journey and in the morning he rode without impediment.

Another for this pain in the sides.
Take some milk vetch and boil it well. Then make an enema of this decoction and soon the pain will cease.

Another for this sickness of the sides.
Take 4 drams each of melon seeds, squash seeds and ground pine and 3 drams each of spices for an electuary, theriac and sandalwood, 3 ½ drams each of anise and asparagus seed, 1 ½ lb. of fine sugar and 1 dram of cinnamon and make an electuary of it in the usual way. Take it early in the morning and you will see the good result that the pain will soon lift and you will be cured.

*Another.
The root of hyoscyamus, that is henbane, carried on the back on bare flesh, is powerful against the pain in the sides.

*Another.
Well-ground parsley seed, as much as will stay on a
julius
, given to drink with warm wine, acts powerfully in the pain of colic.... 71

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[Italian transcript]

A dolori colici rimedii rarissimi di piu sorte.
Rx. olio di oliva del piu vechio che si possa trovare onze vj, zafferano, incenso, e polvere di garoffani, ana quatrini 3, e cochole di lauro no. 20 e cera nova onza j et ogni cosa sia spolverizato e mete insieme in uno pignatino a lento foco per spacio di uno miserere et levelo dal foco et sempre mesta tanta che sia fredo et sera fato. Poi lo serba ali tuoi bisogni. Et quanto lo vorai adoperare falo scaldare et ongi il corpo bene e meteli sopra panni caldi et voltati col corpo al ingiuso et per i spacio di un ora comincierai a pigliare milioramento et, con l’aiutto di dio, presto serai liberato da li dolori colici et non sentirai piu passione.
Item.
Torai farina volatilla e farina di miglio et la farai bolire con olio di ruta et di camomilla, ana, et con esso caldo ongiti il corpo, e presto guarirai.
Item contra a dolori colici.
Rx. florum sambuci, m. ij, calami aromatici onza j, medulorum ossium persicarum et cerasarum, ana onze iij, ossa nespulorum pulverizatarum onze ij et radicum tassi barbassi onze j, bibole seu vini malvatici lb.vj. Misse omnia sumul in vase vitriato bene obpturato per tres dies. Postea fiat distillare et conserva ditta destillatione ali bisogni. Poi ne darai al paciente 2 o 3 onci per volta che sia caldo a modo di syropo e presto guarira. Questo fue aprobato in uno gentilomo che fue abandonato.
Item contra a dolori colici.
Quando tu stai ala messa quando si leva il signore, dirai, ‘Ostia pura e corpo sancto, signore yehsu christo, me libra del do[lo]re di fiancho.’ Et quando si leva il sangue, dirai, ‘O corpo degno, o sangue sancto, signore jesu christo, me liberi del mal di fiancho,’ e in ultimo uno pater noster, e presto guarirai.
Item contra ali dolori colici.
Rx. dele lachrime di jobe piantate quello anno, rompele e cavene il bono, falo seccare e fane polvere suttila et dane a bere al paciente uno chugiaro con ½ bichiere di vino bono chel sia caldo, et presto cessera il dolore. E di provata.
Item al preditto male di fianchi.
Torai galbina e fane uno cerotto tondo et metivi sopra polvere di garofani et falo scaldare bene et mettilo sopra’l belicolo et non lo movere mai finche non sispicha da sua posta et vedrai opera bella. Di provata.
Item.
Il fiore del sambuco datto a bere con vino caldo molto zova al dolore di fianco et fallo spesse volte e presto guarira. E provato.
Item contra al dolore di fianchi.
Rx. aqua stillata di fiori di sambuco onze vj et mettivi drento zucaro onze ij trito et falo scaldare et dalo a bere al paciente subito che lui si sente il male et in termine di un ora cominciera a migliorare. Et questa fue aprobata a uno vescovo essendo in viagio e la matina cavalco senza impedimento.
Item al ditto male di fianchi.
Torai del mililotto et falo bolire molto bene. Poi dela ditta dicotione ne farai servitiale e presto cessera il dolore.
Item al ditto male di fianchi.
Torai seme di melone e di zuccha e erba iva, ana drame iiij, e spetie del lattovario e triacha e sandali, ana drame iij, anesi e semente di sparasi, ana drame iijs, et zucharo fino lb. js e cinamomo drama j et ne farai lattovario al solito modo et ne piglierai la matina per tempo et vedrai opera bella che presto ti levera li dolori, e guarirai.
*Item.
La radice del iusquiamo, id est del dente cavalino, portata adosso a carne nuda, vale contra al dolore di fianchi.
*Item.
La somenta di preteseme ben pisto e quanto staria sun un giullio, datto con vino caldo a bere, molto vale alli dolori colici.