[English translation]


Another.
It is powerful against every fistula wherever it is. This is the way. Take juice from cabbage leaves and mix it with the oil and put it on as a poultice with juice of wormwood and the substance from ground snails. It helps greatly and will cure rapidly.
Note that many of the above virtues of this oil are nearly the same as those of balsam and in practice you will know its great power by testing it and becoming an expert. Some make this oil in an easier way but I do not believe it to be of such great virtue. They take old olive oil, the oldest they can find, and as much pure and clean tamarind flowers as can be put in the oil. Put it in a pot and let it stay in the sun, day and night, for 20 to 30 days, well covered. Then put it underground for a month in a warm place where the sun beats on it. Then bring it out and strain the oil carefully through a double thickness of cloth and put it again in the sun for a month to purify and it will be made, very odorous and rich. When you use it for all your needs, make it warm and you may even tell the patient to drink it because its virtue is to warm and comfort human feelings.
A wine to open a fistula and cure an ulcer.
Take 1 ½ jugs each of strong vinegar and sharp white wine and put in 8 ounces of slaked lime in powder and boil it until it reduces 1/3. Remove it from the fire and let it settle. Strain it so it is very clear. Then put in all these things made into very fine powder, that is, 1 ounce each of rock salt, ammonium chloride and saltpeter and 3 ounces of ash from burnt feathers. Let it stand for one whole day in a well-covered vessel in a warm place so they are well incorporated. Then distill through felt or strain it finely. Then put 1 ½ ounces of iron rust into the wine and it will give the color red to all the wine and it will be made. When you use it, wet some cloths well and put them on and in the sore and treat in the evening and morning. This wine has the strength to remove bad flesh and induce good. It even cures the scab that comes in the rear. If you make some copper become red hot in the fire and extinguish it in this wine, the copper will become white in color and will appear like silver. This has been tested. In this wine you have a cure for the above infirmity.... 124

Another.
Garlic and sage cooked with rose oil and ground and rubbed on an ulcer remove the pain.

Another powder against fistula and canker.
Take 1 lb. of quicklime, 1 ounce of copper sulfate, ½ ounce of sulfur, 4 ounces of powdered orpiment, 6 ounces of barley flour, 8 ounces of white honey and 3 ounces of strong vinegar. Incorporate everything together and make a paste. Make little balls and dry them thoroughly in the warm oven. Then regrind them and make very fine powder and save this for your needs. When you wish to use the powder in the illness of fistula or canker, put a little in the top of the tent that you put on the sore and treat once a day or twice a day. Know that the powder eats, corrodes and consumes all the bad flesh and makes the good grow.

Another against fistula.
Take branches of green ivy without leaves, cut them minutely and distill them in glass. Wet some cloths and put them on the sore but first it is purged. Then put on some leaves of bramble.

Another for the above.
Take 3 or 4 live lizards and boil them in a little water. Then dry them and make very fine powder and give it to drink, if the fistula is inside. It will be removed by vomiting. If it is outside, put on some of this powder and it will be cured.

Another for the above illness.
Take flour of red chick peas and mix it with raw honey in the form of a warm poultice. Put it on several times and it will cure a fistula. If the fistula is open, take roots of the herb toadflax, grind them well with male pork blood and make an unguent. Put it on warm and it will cure fistula and canker.

Another.
If the powder of orpiment is too caustic, put in a little of this honey and it will decrease its action.

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[Italian transcript]

Item.
Vale contra ad ogni fistula e sia in qualunche loco si sia in questo modo ricevi del suco dele foglie di cav[o]lo et lo mescola con l’olio preditto et metilo sopra a modo di impiastro con suco di assentio et substantia de lumache piste. Molto li zova e presto lo cura.
Nota chel sopra detto olio a di molte virtu e di quasi simile al balsamo et praticandolo tu lo cognosserai le sue magne virtu che sperimentandolo tu ti fai detto. Alcuni fanno el ditto olio a uno altro modo piu facile, ma non credo sia di tanta gran virtu. Pigliano olio de oliva del piu vechio che possono trovare e fiori schiette e nette dil tramarino quante ne pole stare in ditto olio et metilo in una inchistara et lasselo stare al sole di e note per 20 o 30 giorni ben turata. Poi la metterai sotto terra in loco caldo dove li batte il sole per un mese. Poi la cava fori et colerai il ditto olio strettamente con peza dopia et lo rimetti al sole per un mese a purificare et sera fatto, molto odoriffero et corpulente et sera fatto. Et quando lo doperi in tutte le tue occorentie fa chel sia caldo etiam che tu lo di a bere perche la sua virtu sie de riscaldare e confortare li sentimenti humani.
A mazare una fistula e guarire un cancro con vino.
Rx. aceto forte e vino bianco brusco, ana bochali uno ½, et metivi drento polvere di calcina onze viij et farai bolire tanto che si consumi la terza parte e levelo dal foco et lasselo fare possata. Poi la cola chel sia ben chiaro. Poi li meterai drento tutte queste cose fatte in polvere sutilissima, cioe sale giema, sale armoniaco e sale nitro, ana onza j, e sale di piuma onze iij et lasseli stare drento per uno di naturale e chel vaso stia in loco caldo e ben coperto et che le siano bene incorporate. Poi la distilla per feltro over lo cola sutilmente. Poi meterai in ditto vino dela rugine dil ferro onze js et dara la tinta rossa a tutto quel vino et sera fatto. Et quando lo adoperi bagna le pezze suttile et mettele sopra e drento ala piagha et medica sera e matina et questo vino a forza di consumare la carne cativa et induce la bona. Et etiam guarisse del male del fico che viene al posterone. Et se tu farai diventare rosso il rame inel foco e spengerlo in ditto vino la fara diventare di colore bianco che parera un argento e di provata. Et abi cura del dito vino inele ditte infermita.
Item.
Aglio e salvia cotto con olio rosato e pesto e ongi il cancro e leva il dolore.
Item polvere contra fistule e cancro.
Torai calcina viva lb. j, vitriolo onza j, solfero onza s, orpimento in polvere onze iiij, farina d’orzo onze vj e mele bianco onze xiij e aceto forte onze iij. Et incorpora ogni cosa insieme et ne farai una pasta. Poi ne farai balotine piccole et fale seccare inel forno apeni chel sia caldo. Poi le ripesterai et ne farai polvere sutilissima et quella conserva ali tuoi bisogni. Et quando vorai doperare la ditta polvere ali sopra detti mali a fistula o a cancri, metine uno poco in cima ale taste che tu meti drento ala piagha et medicherai una sol volta al giorno overo la copia drento. Et sapi che la ditta polvere mangia, corrode, consuma tutta la carne cativa e fa cressere la bona.
Item contra ala fistula.
Torai rami di edera verdi senza folia. Tagliali minuti et fali stillare al vetro et bagnerai dele peze et meti sun la piagha e che prima la sia purgata. Poi meterai sopra dele folie di rovede.
Item al preditto.
Torai 3 o 4 luserte vive et fale bolire um poco in aqua. Poi fale secare et fane polvere sutilissima et dane a bere. Se la e drento la fara gittare per boca e se la e di fora meti suso dela ditta polvere e guarira.
Item al preditto male.
Farai farina di cesi rossi et mistica con mele crudo et a modo di impiastro caldo metti suso piu volte e guarira. Et se’l male e aperto, torai radice di erba passarina pestala bene con sangue di porco maschio et farai unguento e meti suso caldo e guarira dela fistula et cancro.
Item.
Se la polvere del orpimento ti fa tropo rodere, meteli uno poco di questo mele e passera via.