[English translation] Best ointment for retracted nerves. Take a goose, and it should be fat, pluck it and clean it as if you wanted to eat it and cut off the neck and the feet. Then take a live cat that should be fat, kill it, skin it and clean it as if you wanted to eat it and cut off the head and the feet. Then cut it up minutely including the bones. I say, very minutely. Grind this together with one pound of lard from a male pig, 1 ounce of powdered cloves and 2 ounces of finely-ground clean wax. Grind and incorporate everything well together. Then put everything inside the body of the goose and cook it. Tie it up on the spit and bind it so it stays firm. Then roast it and keep the fire very low until it is cooked or over-cooked, but not burned, until the bone is seen. Collect all the fat so that nothing is lost, not a drop, into a bowl of strong white vinegar. Because you will want the fat that is above the vinegar, save this as something dear. It is the fat which has this property, when retracted nerves are rubbed with it warm, using it several times softens them and makes them return toward their pristine state. Keep them warm with unwashed wool, which is very appropriate. Observe the rules and soon you will be cured. More for retracted nerves. Take some fat from a sheep and some of its marrow and cut each minutely. Then fry these in good white wine. Then wash the sick place with this wine, very warm, and bathe it for a while and do this several times and you will cure. A cleansing unguent for the nerves. Take 1 lb. of Venetian turpentine, 1 ounce each of sarcocol gum, myrrh, flour of lupin, of flax seed and of fenugreek and ½ ounce of clean wax. Dissolve the turpentine and the wax on a good fire. Then remove the pot from the fire and put therein all the other things made into powder and stir with the ladle so it is well mixed until it is cold and it will be made, an unguent good to cleanse those sores that are on the nerves. Another to cure cut nerves. Take 2 ounces each of these five kinds of oil, that is laurel oil, petroleum, oil of mastic, of dill and of tartar, and badger fat and 1 ounce of clean wax. Incorporate everything on a little fire and make a soft unguent. It should be warm when you want to use it. Do this several times with warm unwashed wool on the cut place and it will help you greatly. Another for nerves retracted through cold. Take ox dung in the month of May and boil it in good white wine. Bathe the painful nerves with this wine and it should be warm. Do this several times and you will help greatly. Keep the nerve very warm and soon you will cure. More to cure these sores on nerves and other diverse sores. Say over the sore, first making the sign of the cross, “O highest wisdom and power, O eternal light, O creator of heaven and earth, O you who saved human nature and were placed on the cross + for us, wretched sinners, to save us. Remember, Lord, when you said, ' Hely, hely, lama zabatani. Hoc est corpus meum, Agios, Agios, Agios, Ischiros, Athanatos, Adonay. ' As you, Lord, were freed from the wounds of your side on the most holy cross + which you bore to Mount Calvary, as you, Lord, were wrapped in white cloth, as the wounds did not bleed with either fever or decay, so these will not, if it please God and his Son. Suffering of Christ, may these be healed. Suffering of Christ, may they be healed in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen.” Say this over the wounds when you pray. Then take a little cloth of a man's shirt and put it in the form of a cross on the wounds and they will be healed quickly. ---------- [Italian transcript] Onto contra a nervi retratti, optimo. Rx. un ocha che sia grassa, pelela e ordenela como se la volesti mangiare et tagliali il collo e piedi. Poi torai un gatto vivo chel sia grasso, amazalo e scorticalo et nettalo como se lo voleste mangiare e tagliali il capo e piedi. Poi taglialo minuto con gli ossi, dico minutissimo, et pestali incompagnia una lb. de lardo di porco maschio et polvere di garofani onza j et cera nova pesta minuta onze ij. Et ogni cosa pesta et incorpora bene insieme. Poi metterai ogni cosa in corpo alla ditta ocha e cosela. Poi infilzela in nelo schillone et leghela che la stia salda. Poi la cosi arosto et dali il foco lento lento tanto che la sia cotta o stra cotta e non brussata tanto chel se li veda l’ossa. Et ricoglie tutto quello grassa che niente se ne perda in una giotta con drento uno bochale di aceto bianco forte. Poi che averai il grasso di sopra al aceto et quello lo conserva per cosa cara. E questo e quello che a questa proprieta doperandolo caldo a ongere li nervi retratti usandolo piu volte li molifica et li fa a rendevoli molto al suo prestina stato e tenendoli caldi con lana suscida sopra la quale egli e molta aproprieta. Et osservando l’ordine, presto guarirai. E piu a nervi retratti. Torai del sevo di peccora et dela sua mirolla et taglia ogni cosa minutamente. Poi falo frigere con vino bianco bono. Poi lavati il loco infermo col ditto vino ben caldo et fa durare assai il bagno et fallo piu volti e guarirai. Unguento mondificativo dali nervi. Rx. termentina venitiana lb. j, sarchacola, mirra, farina de lupini e de semelino e di fiengreco, ana onza j, e cera nova onza s. Metti la termentina e la cera a dissolvere al foco bene. Poi leva el tozzo dal foco et mettivi drento tutte le altre cose fatte in polvere et con la mestola mesta drento che bene se incorpora e fino che e freddo et sera fatto, unguento bono per mondificare quelle piaghe che sono in loco nervoso. Item a guarire i nervi tagliati. Torai questi cinque sorte di olio, cioe olio laurino e petroli e di mastice e di aneto e di tartaro, e grasso di tasso, ana onze ij, e cera nova onza j et incorpora ogni cosa a un picol foco et fane unguento tenero. Et quando lo adoperi chel sia caldo et falo piu volte et molto ti zovera con sopra lana suscida e calda. Item a nervi retirati per fredura. Torai sterco di buo il meso di magio et fallo bolire in vino bianco bono. Et col dito vino bagnati li nervi dogliosi e chel sia caldo et fallo piu volte et molto ti zovera. E tienlo ben caldo e presto ne guarirai. E piu per guarire le ditte piaghe di nervi et altre piaghe diverse. Dirai sopra ala piaga, facendoli prima li segno di +. “O summa sapientia e potentia, o eterna luce, o creator del cielo et dela terra, o tu il quale recuperasti l’umana natura, et fusti posto in croce + per noi miseri peccatori per salvarci, ricordati signore quando dicesti, ‘Hely, hely, lama zabatani, hoc est corpus meum.’ Agios, agios, agios, ischiros athanatos, adonay, et sicut tu, domine, liberasti de vulnere lateris tui cum sanctissime crucis + quam tu portasti ad montem calvarium et sic tu domine involutus fuisti in tela alba et sicut plage ille non emisserunt sanguinem nec ardorem nec fetorem ita non amittantur plage iste ita placeant deo et nativitate sue. Passio christi liberent istum, passio christi liberent eum. In nomine Patris + et filii + et spiritus sancti +, amen.” Et dicant super vulnera cum ore tuo et postea pone modicum de camisa hominis et pone in + super plagas et cito liberabitur.