[English translation] To cure split lips around the mouth. Take roasted ox hooves and make powder of them and roasted leaves of leeks, all in very fine powder, each the same amount, and incorporate them with sufficient drams of honey and rub it on in the evening and soon you will be cured. Another to cure hands damaged from cold. Take mastic, incense, clean wax and rose oil, each the same amount, and make an unguent and rub the hands and you will be cured rapidly. Grease for split lips and cracked hands and feet and other developing soreness, viz: Take 1 ounce each of goat fat and beef marrow, 2 ounces of clean wax, 1 ½ ounces each of rose and violet oils, ½ ounce each of oils of St. John's wort and balsam and 4 scruples of camphor. First cut the fat finely and put it on the fire with the marrow and when it is melted, strain it through cloth. Then put it again in the pot with the cut wax and all the oils and stir well so everything is incorporated together. Put in a very little salt ground like flour because it does not melt. Then remove it from the fire and put in the camphor, cut up, and stir until it is cold, and it will be made. If you want to strain it again when cold, do this before you put in the camphor. Afterward, save it carefully for your needs. The older it is, the better for all these infirmities: first in all developing sores, boils and fistulas, for pain from hemorrhoids, for choler with fever, for cracks in the lips around the mouth, for cracks on hands and feet and for the swelling on the knees. It has many other virtues that you will learn daily. It removes pain rapidly in all these infirmities, reduces them and warms them. Continue to rub with it cold in the evening and morning and for hemorrhoids it should be tepid. It has been used many times for chilblains. For pain in the teeth and any other distress caused by dry mouth or from the stomach. Viz. Take ½ handful each of sage, hyssop, myrtle, mastic and olive leaves. The herbs should be fresh. Cut them coarsely and add two cut dry figs and 20 grains of pepper, broken coarsely. Put everything to boil in a clean pot with white wine until it is reduced in half. Strain it carefully. Then hold this wine in the mouth as warm as you can bear. This kills the decay, strengthens the gums and teeth and makes the breath good. If you want to extract a tooth without implements, say, 'In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen. Dodo machabeo baruto o grassbii.' Draw the tooth and it will come out without pain. This has been shown. Another to make the teeth firm. Take 2 drams each of male incense, dragon's blood gum, that is the tears from the tree, hematite stone, myrtle seeds, roots and seeds of peony, lavender, cubeb and cloves, 5 drams each of whole red roses, Armenian red clay and cinnamon and 1 dram each of mace, nutmeg and red coral. Mix everything with myrtle syrup, rose honey and sugar. Then put it on the gums and on the teeth and it will restore you to health. Another for teeth that may have a hole or may have a worm in them. Take dilute nitric acid and put a little cottonwool on the tip of a fine iron rod and wet it in this acid. Then with dexterity put the wet cottonwool into the opening in the tooth and let it stay there well pressed in for an hour or more. Do this 2 or 3 times a day and soon it will kill the worm. If it is on an upper tooth, make the patient turn with the head down so that the nitric acid can penetrate more easily. It will soon free one from such distress.... 26 Another for pain of the teeth which have made the jaw swell. Take rosemary, sage, wormwood, pepper and ginger, each the same amount. Then boil them in good, strong wine and hold this wine in the mouth as warm as you can and do this several times in the day and soon you will be cured. Also to remove this suffering caused by the teeth: take strong vinegar and a little ground camphor and put it in a bottle and heat it. Put this warm in the mouth and soon it lifts your pain. Also for this pain from the teeth. Take betony and boil it with strong vinegar and put therein a little honey and boil it enough so it reduces 1/3 and hold this boiled liquid in the mouth as warm as you can and soon it will remove your pain and you will be cured. ---------- [Italian transcript] Li labri sfessi dela boccha, guarirli. Rx. onge di buo brusate et fatene polvere et foglie de porri brusate tutte in polvere sutelissima, ana, et le incorpora con mele tanto drame suficit et ongi la sera e presto guarirai. Item a guarire le mane guaste dal fredo. Rx. mastice, incenso, cera nova e olio rosato, ana, et fane unguento et unge le mane e presto guarirai. Onto per labri sfessi e crepaturi di mano e di piedi et altri mali nassenti, vz. Rx. sevo di beccho, mirolla di buo, ana onza j, cera nova onze ij, olio roxato e violato, ana onze js, olio di preforata e de caranci, ana onza s, e canfora scropulo 4. Prima taglia minuto il sevo et metilo al foco et la mirolla insieme et come egli e ben distrutto lo cola con una peza. Poi lo rimetti inel tocetto et mettivi tutti li olii et la cera taliata et mesta bene che ogni cosa si incorpora mestandovi drento et mettivi drento uno po poco di sale trito come farina perche’l non se distruge. Poi levelo dal foco et mettivi drento la ca[n]phora tagliata et mestavi drento tanto chel sia freddo et sera fatto, e se’l ti pare li ricolarlo cossi caldo lo potrai fare avanti che tu li metti la canfora et lo serba apresso di te ali bisogni, et con piu egli e vecchio egli e migliore in tutte queste infermita, prima a tutti i mali nassenti, bugnoni, fignoli, al dolore dele morise, a colera calida, alle sfessature dela boccha di labri, ale crepature di mano e dele piedi, e ale pepite deli ginochi et a de molte altre virtu che ala giornata le imparerai. Presto ti leva il dolore di tutte queste infirmita li restringe e li fa scaldare et continua a ongerti sera e matina cosi fredo e ale morise vorebe tiepido. Et di probato piu volte et e a le boagance. Al dolore di denti et d’ogni altra passione causato per sese over dalo stomacho. Vz. Rx. salvia, ysopo, mortella, lentischo, oliva le foglie, ana m. ½, che siano verde, taliate li grosso, et doi fichi secchi tagliati et 20 grani di pepi rotto di grosso et metti ogni cosa a bolire in pignata nova con vino biancho tanto che calli la metta et cola con diligentia. Poi del ditto vino ne tiene in boccha chel sia caldo piu che tu poi soffrire et questo amaza il verme et conforta la zengiva e il dente et fa bono alito. Et se tu vorai cavare il dente senza ferro, dirai, ‘In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, amen. Dodo machabeo baruto o grassbii.’ Et tira il dente et ve va senza dolore. E di veduta. Item a fermare li denti. Torai incenso maschio, sangue de drago, cioe lachrima, lapis ematithis, seme di mortella, radice e seme di peonia, spice, cubebe, gariofilorum, ana drame ij, e roxe rosse in completarum, boloarmeni, cinamomi, ana drame v, macis, nuce muscate, coralli rossi, ana drama j, et ogni cosa componi con syropo mirtino e mel rosato con zuccharo. Poi ne metti sun le zengive e sun li denti et presto ti rissanera. Item al dente che fusse buso et avesse drento il tarlo. Torai del aqua forte di quella da partire et metti uno poco di bambaso in cima a un ferretto suttile e bagnalo in ditta aqua. Poi metti la bambasa bagnata con ingegno inel buco del dente et lasselo stare drento bon calcato per un ora o piu et farai cosi 2 o 3 volte al giorno et presto morira il tarlo et se gli e di sopra falo voltare con la testa a basso accio che l’aqua forte piu presto possa penetrare e presto te libererai di tal passione. Item al dolore de denti che avesse enfiata la massella. Torai del osmarino, salvia, assentio e pepi e zenzero, ana. Poi fale bolire in vino bono e possente et del ditta vino ne tiene in bocca caldo piu che tu poi et farai cosi spesse volte al giorno e presto guarirai. Et anche a levare la ditta passione del dente: torai aceto e uno poco de canfora pesta e mettila in una ampolla et falla scaldare et cosi calda metila in bocca e presto ti leva il dolore. Et etiam al ditto dolore de denti: torai bertonicha e fala bolire con aceto forte e metivi drento uno poco di mele e tanto bola che cali il terzo et di ditta bolitura calda ne tiene in bocca piu che tu poi e presto ti cavera il dolore, e guarirai.