[English translation] To reduce the flow of menstruation when it is too heavy. Take 3 plantain roots with the leaves and cook them in river water and give some of that to the patient to drink and soon menstruation is checked. For illness of the womb. Take equal amounts of roasted deer horn, incense and mastic, all pulverized, and put that in the private place of the patient. Electuary to take by the stomach against womb pain. Take 1 dram plus 1 scruple each of cloves, cinnamon, crocus, nutmeg, long pepper, zedoary, mace, cubebs, galingale, cardamon and ginger, ½ ounce each of rosemary leaves and flowers, 2 drams plus 2 scruples each of mint, sage, thyme, hyssop, betony, mugwort, marjoram, anise seed, fennel, coriander, red coral and ground pine and make an electuary with honey. First take herbs that are well matured with aroma and many flowers and when making the electuary, always mix with a wooden spatula. Another electuary for comforting the womb. Take 2 drams of choice cinnamon, ½ ounce each of mugwort and nutmeg, and 1 dram of laurel berries. Mix them and pulverize them finely and make an electuary with 6 ounces of honey. *Remedy to make hair grow after a disease causing baldness, tested in Lucca, 1559. Take a pound of clear and good honey, an ounce of ground pepper and a quantity of fresh roots of reed and distill them. First put enough washed gravel to cover the bottom of the still. Bathe yourself in this water in the morning and evening for 8 days and you will be cured, that is it will make the hair grow and if you continue it, the hair will continue to grow. *Remedy for one who has no hair, to make it grow as soon as you have begun. Take a pound of malvasia wine and ground long pepper and distill these in a glass still or vitreous decanter and wash with this water in the morning and evening for 4 to 6 days and you will be freed. Tested in Ferrara in 1566. *Take 2 handfuls each of mountain hyssop and southernwood, 2 lb. each of fresh malvasia wine and fresh milk, and 6 ounces of mustard seed. Infuse these for 3 days and then distill in a still as above and bathe where needed. ---------- [Italian transcript] A restringere el troppo fluxo di mestrui. Rx. radice 3 di piantagine cum le foglie et cocele in acqua di fiume et di ista da bere al paciente e presto si restringe. Al male di matrice. Rx. corno di cervo brusato, incenso, mastice, ana, tutti polverizate et mettilo inel loco secreto del pacienti. Ellectuarium stomachale contra matricis dolorem. Rx. garofilorum, cinamomi, croci, nucis muschate, piperis longi, zedovarie, macis, cubebarum, galange, cardamomo, zinziberis, ana drama j scropulo j, fogliorum rorismarini et florum, ana onza s, mente, salvie, serpilli, ysopi, betonice, artemisia, maiorane, seminis anesi, feniculi, coriandolorum, coralorum rubeorum, iva, drame ij scropuli ij, et fiat ellectuarium cum melle. Prius ponendo herbas bene contritas et postea aromatarum et in fine florum et fiat ellectuarium, sempre miscendo cum spatula ligniea. Item. Ellectuarium ad matricem confortandum. Rx. cinamomi electi drame ij, artemisie, nucis muschate, ana onza s, baccarum lauri drama j. Misce pulverizando subtiliter et cum onze vj mellis, fiat ellectuarium. *Remedio a far nascer li capegli per conto de pelarella, provato in lucca, 1559. Rx. mel chiaro e bello lb., pepe pesto onza, con al quante radici de canne fresche. Stilla con mettervi prima nel fondo del lambicco tanta ghiara lavata che cupra el fondo del lambicho. Et con questa acqua ti bagnarai mattina e sera per 8 giorni, e guarirai, cioe ti fara nascere li pelli e sel ti pare continua al quanti di piu. *Remedio a far che non te pelli quando cominciasti subito. Rx. malvagia lb., pevere lungo pesto. Farai le ditte cose stillare in lambico di vetro o boccia vitriata et con questa acqua ti lava mattina e sera per 4 o sei di, e sarai libero. Provato in ferrara nel 1566. *Rx. ysopi montani, abrotani, ana m. ij, malvagie, vini neque purei, lactis recentis, ana lb. j, semeni sinapis onze vj. Fiat infusio per 3 di et poi stilla a lambicco ut supra et bagna dove bisogna.