[English translation]

Various medicines for illness of the spleen in several ways.... 156
Take the same amount of roots of cyclamen and dittany, crush them between two lodestones and incorporate this with male pork fat. Put this warm on the spleen in the evening and morning. Do this repeatedly for the pain and soon you will cure the spleen. This has been tested.

Another.
Take plowman's spikenard and make it into juice and drink this for 9 mornings in a row and you will be cured quickly.

Another.
Take the bark of the ash tree and cook it with good wine and use this to drink and you will be helped greatly. If there is swelling of the spleen, take nettle root, well-minced, and mix it with white wine. Heat it well and put it on and it will help greatly. If the spleen is not swollen, take hart's tongue, that is spleenwort, cooked with wine and drink this in the form of a syrup for 30 days. It helps a great deal.

Another.
Take oil of dill and rub this warm across the spleen. Then take the urine of a child and wet some stupes and warm them and fasten them on well. Make powder of the herb catchweed, which blocks up the fish ponds, and drink it in the morning with some broth and you will be cured soon. Also take oil of capers and the same amount of laurel oil and equal amounts of the bark of capers and of tamarisk, made into powder, and a little wax. Make an ointment and rub yourself with this warm, and soon you will be cured.

Another.
Take flowers and leaves of tamarisk, as much as you wish. Dry it in the shade and make fine powder of it. Give the patient one spoonful in a fresh egg or in wine. Then give a few raisins with a finger of wine on them for 15 to 20 days and soon he will feel much better.

Another.
Take ½ handful each of rosebuds before they are open, betony, valerian, sage, mint, rue, horehound and flowers and leaves of tamarisk. Dry them and make fine powder and give it to drink with a fresh egg or with wine. Do this several times and it will help greatly.

Another to resolve the indurated spleen.
Take some ordinary oil, as much as you wish, and put it in a pot and put therein 1 handful of wild cucumbers. Let this boil until they are falling apart. Then put in some others and do this 3 times. Then take this oil and with it, very warm, rub the painful place on the spleen and by continuing this you will cure rapidly.

Another.
Make ashes of twigs of grape vines and pass them through a sieve and make some lye from most of this. Then take equal amounts of this lye and vinegar and ordinary old oil and urine from a little child of 6 years and put everything together. Put it in a clean vessel and boil it very slowly until it is reduced in half. Then put in the fine ashes that you have reserved, little by little, until it takes on the body of a liquid unguent. Let it boil a little, stirring continuously. Then add 1 ounce of clean wax. Remove it from the fire and stir until it is cold and it will be made. The sick person should go to bed and the hard spleen should be rubbed with the warm ointment. Put on warm stupes and cloths and bind them on well. Do this every evening until you feel yourself improved. Watch what you eat. It is that which hurts you and keeps you sick.
Take leaves and roots of ferns and asparagus, each the same amount. Cook them in cistern water and give it to drink warm. By continuing this, the spleen will be dried up.

Another for hardness of the spleen.
Take 2 ounces of ashes made of grape vine twigs, 6 ounces of droppings of goat or of human and 6 drams each of leaves of hellebore, rue, horehound, tamarisk and rusty fern each made into fine powder, and ammoniac gum dissolved in vinegar for one whole day. Put everything in a little pot on a slow fire that vaporizes away all the vinegar. Then take enough laurel oil to make a poultice and put this warm on the spleen. Continue this several times and you will cure. Add to the plaster 3 ounces of snails with shells, powdered, and 1 ounce each of powder of hepatic aloe and myrrh and with this you will cure.

*Another to cure the spleen.
Toast a slice of bread on both sides and soak it in warm linseed oil and give it at once to the patient to eat early in the morning. Do this for several mornings and you will cure.

*Another.
Take the flowers of broom freshly picked during the half moon and fill a pot. Put in 1 lb. of butter, cover it and boil it on a bain marie until it becomes like an unguent. With this, warm from the fire, rub the spleen and soon you will cure.

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[Italian transcript]

Al male de milza, medecine varie in piu modi.
Rx. la radice del pan porcino e dela frassinella, ana, amachale tra 2 pietre vive et li incorpora con songie di porco maschio et cossi caldo metti insu la milza sera e matina et questo spesso volte lo farai et dela milza presto guarirai. E di provato.
Item.
Torai bacchera e fane suco et di quello ne bevi per 9 matine continue e presto ne guarirai.
Item.
Torai la scorza del frassino et fala cosere con bon vino et quella usa a bere e molto ti giovera. Et se’l fusse infiato sopra ala milza, torai la radice del orticha ben trita et missela con vino bianco et fala ben scaldare e mettila suso e molto ti giovera. Et se ella non fusse infiata, torai lingua cervina, i scolopendria, cotta con vino e bevto a modo di syropo per 30 di. Molto la li giovera.
Item.
Torai olio d’aneto et con esso ongi caldo atraverso dela milza. Poi torai orina di putto et bagnali drento dele stoppe et fale scaldare e mettila suso bene infassata. Et farai polvere del erba asperella dove sei sgura li stagni et bevila la matina con del brodo e presto guarirai. Et torai olio de cappari et olio laurino, ana, e scorce de cappari e di tamariso, ana, fatte in polvere e uno poco di cera. Et ne farai onto et con esso ti ongi caldo e presto guarirai.
Item.
Torai del fiore et la foglia del tamariso quanto tu voi. Falo seccare al ombra et fane polvere suttila et dane al paciente uno chugiaro in uno ovo fresco overo in vino. Poi li darai uno poco di uva passerina con uno dito di vino sopra per 15 o 20 giorni e presto pigliera miglioramente.
Item.
Torai deli botoni dele roxe avanti che si aprino e betonicha e valeriana, salvia, menta, ruta, marobio, foglie e fiori di tamariso, ana m. s, et fale seccare et fane polvere sutila. Et dane a bere con uno ovo fresco overo con vino e falo piu volte e molto li zovera.
Item a rissolvere la milza indurita.
Rx. del olio comune quanto tu voi et metilo in una pignata et mettivi drento cochumeri assinini m. uno et lasseli bolire tanto che siano disfatti. Poi ne rimetti drento deli altri et cosi farai 3 volte. Poi torai del preditto olio et ongiti chel sia ben caldo il loco adolorato dela milza et presto tu ne guarirai, continuandolo.
Item.
Farai dela cenere di sermenti de vite et la farai passare per lo staccio et di quella grossa tu ne farai dela lissia. Poi torai dela ditta lissia e aceto e olio vechio comune et orina di putto piccolo di 6 anni, ana, et meti ogni cosa insieme et mettilo in uno vaso netto et falo bolire pian piano tanto chel calli piu dela metta. Poi le meterai drento di quella cenere suttila che tu ai serbata a poc a poco tanto che piglio al quanto di corpo come unguento liquido. E anche lasselo bolire um poco e sempre mestando. Poi li agiongi cera nova onza j. Poi lo leva dal foco et li mesta drento finche e fredo et sera fatto. Poi lo infermo va al letto, ongasi la milza indurita chel sia caldo et meti sopra stoppa e peze ben calde e infassati bene et farai cosi ogni sera tanto che tu ti senti a megliorare. Et guardati dela bocha che e quella che ti condanna et ti tiene cosi amalato.
Torai foglie e radice di felexe e sparegi, ana, et cosele in aqua di cisterna et dala a bere calda continuando la la rissuga la milza.
Item ala durezza dela milza.
Rx. cenere fatta di sermenti de vite onze ij, cacature di capra overo humano onze vj e foglie di ellera arborea, ruta, marobio, tamario e cetracha et de tutte ne sia fatto polvere suttila, ana drame vj, et armoniaco fuso inel aceto per uno di naturale. Et meti ogni cosa in uno pignatino a un foco lento tanto che vapori via tutta l’aceto. Poi torai olio laurino tanto che basti e fane uno impiastro et cosi caldo mettilo sopra ala milza et spesse volte lo continua e guarirai. Et agiongeli sopra alo impiastro lumache con la scorza in polvere onze iij, e polvere de aloe patico e mirra, ana onza j, e guarirai.
*Item a guarire la milza.
Farai brostolare una fetta di pane da tuti 2 i lati et cosi calda insupela in olio de linosa et subito dala a mangiare al paciente la matina per tempo. Et falo piu matine e guarirai.
*Item.
Le fiori di ginestra fresche colti a luna sema et empiene una inchistara et metivi drento botiro lb. j. Turela et boli a bagno maria tanto che venghi como unguento. Et con esso caldo al foco, ongi la milza e presto guarirai.