[English translation] Lavage to heal and clean sores of the legs. Take 2 flasks of water from a stream or fountain and put therein a bowl of barley and boil it until it reduces in half. Put in 2 ounces of rock alum and 1 ounce of crushed white lead and boil for at least one miserere. Then remove it from the fire and strain it and press the barley well so that the substance goes into the decoction and save this in a glass bottle. When you want to treat, take a little in a small pot and warm it and wet some linen cloths in it and put them on the sores of the leg. Do this several times and you will cure the sores quickly. It even helps those sores that come on the head, wetting them with the cloths. Another lavage for sores of the legs. Take 2 glasses of the urine of a healthy man or child, 2 ounces of raw honey and ½ ounce of rock alum and put everything together in a small pot and make it boil very slowly. Wash the sores of the legs with this lavage and let it dry in place. Then take clean marsh mallow roots and first remove the heart from the center and dry them and make very fine powder. When the sore has been well dried after lavage, put thereon enough of the powder, like a spice. Then put the medicated cloth on the sore in an appropriate size for the sore on the leg. By continuing this, you will cure it soon. Medicated cloths to heal sore legs. Take 6 ounces of fresh rose oil, 1 ½ ounces each of cinnabar and litharge and 1 ounce each of incense and burnt rock alum. Put the oil on the fire in a pot and put therein the cinnabar and when it wants to boil, put in the litharge and after it boils a little it will become dark. Then put in the incense and the rock alum. When you see it has incorporated well, put in your cloths to dress sores, as many as you want, and stir them well with a stick in this unguent until they are soaked. Then remove them, still warm, and spread them to dry in the shade and they will be made, medicated cloths. Put these cloths on all sores of the leg and they will comfort greatly and cure them rapidly. Another medicated cloth to make easily. Take 1 lb. of rose oil, 4 ounces each of yellow litharge and white lead and 2 ounces of clean wax. Pulverize and incorporate everything and cook it well on a low fire. When it is well incorporated, soak your cloths well therein. When they are cold, use them to treat. To make a medicated cloth. Take 3 ounces each of beef suet, crushed white lead and clean wax and when it is melted, dip in your cloths and they will be made and dry them. Another medicated cloth. Take 6 ounces each of ordinary oil and rose oil, 5 ounces of white lead and 1 ounce each of diaquilon and powdered St. John's wort. Put everything in a pot to compound them and when it becomes dark, that is a sign that it is cooked. Then put in your cloths for medicating and soak them well in this composition. When they have picked it all up, remove them and put them to dry in the shade so that the powder does not all shake off and they will be made. Use them as you wish. Very fine plaster to clear up sores. Take 1 ounce each of wax, black pitch and colophony, 2 ounces each of elemi gum and turpentine, ½ ounce each of mastic and sarcocol gum, 3 drams each of rock rose gum and eyebright, 5 drams of myrrh and 3 ounces of rose oil. Put all these things in the pot and with a slow fire compound them well, stirring continuously with the spatula so that they do not stick. When they are well cooked in the usual way, remove them from the fire and continue in the usual way for plasters and it will be done. Preserve the powder for your needs and it will bring you honor.... 109 ---------- [Italian transcript] Lavanda per saldare et purgare piaghe di ghambe. Rx. aqua corrente o di fontana 2 fiaschi et mettivi drento una scodella d’orzo et fallo bolire chel calli la metta et allora li metterai drento lume di rocha onze ij e biacha violata onza j et falo bolire manco di un miserere. Poi levelo dal foco et colalo et premi ben l’orzo che la sustantia vadi inela dicotione et lo conserva in vaso di vetro. Et quando lo vorai adoperare pigliane um poco in uno pignatino e fallo scaldare et bagnavi drento dele pezze line et metteli sul male dela gamba. Fallo piu volte e presto guarirai. Et etiam zova al male che viene insu la testa, bagnando dele pezze. Item lavanda per piaghe di gambe. Torai horina di homo o putto sano bichieri 2 e mele crudo onze ij e alume di rocha onza s, et metti ogni cosa insieme in uno pignatino et fallo al quanto bolire cosi pian piano. Et con la ditta bolitura lavati le piaghe dele gambe et lassela sugare da sua posta. Poi torai le radice del malva vischio che le siano nette et cavane prima via l’anima da mezo et falle seccare et fane polvere sutilissima. Poi che la piaga sera ben sutta, mettivi sopra dela ditta polvere assai bene a modo di spetie. Poi metterai sopra ala piaga pezza lavorata fatta e propriata a posta al mal di gamba et questo continuando presto guarirai. Pezza lavorata per consolidare malori di gambe. Rx. olio roxato del novo onze vj, minio e litargirio, ana onze js, incenso e lume di roca brussato, ana onza j. Metti l’olio al foco nela caza et mettivi drento el minio et quando vole bolire mettivi il litargirio et quando a um po bolito mettivi el vera nero. Mettivi l’incenso e l’alume et quando tu l’averai bene incorporato, mettivi drento le tue pezze conze como a te pare et con li bastoni vali bene involtando in ditto unguento tanto che li siano bene insuppate. Poi le caverai fora cossi caldo et distendeli bene che si sugano al ombra et serano fatte, pezze lavorate. Et dele ditte pezze ne metterai sopra a tutti i mali dele gambe e molto li conforta e presto li guarir[a]. Item. Pezza lavorata a farla presto. Rx. olio roxato lb. j, litragirio d’oro e biacha, ana onze iiij, e cera nova onze ij. Et ogni cosa sia incorporato et spolverizato et ben cotto e con lento foco. Et quando e bene incorporato, insuppavi drento le tue pezze e bene e como egli e freddo le poi adoperare. Et per fare pezza lavorata. Torai grasso di becho e biacha violata e cera nova, ana onze iij, et quando e distratto, atuffali drento le tue pezze et presto serano fatte e sutte. Item pezza lavorata. Torai olio comune e roxato, ana onze vj, e biacha onze v e diaquilon e polvere de ipericon, ana onza j. Et metti ogni cosa nel tozzo a componere et quando diventera nero e segno che egli e cotto. Allora mettivi drento le tue pezze conze como tu vorai et invilupali bene in ditta composicione et quando l’averano riceuto tutto caveli fora et mettili a secare al ombra che non li vada suso polvere et serano fatte. Et li adopera a tuo piacere. Cirotto per dissolvere molto nobile. Rx. cera e pece nera, colofonia, ana onza j, goma elami, trementina, ana onze ij, mastice, seracollo, ana onza s, laudano, euforbio, ana drame iij, mirra drame v, olio roxato onze iij. Et tutte queste cose metteli nel tozzo et con lento foco falli ben componere et sempre mestando con la spatula chel non si atachi et poi chel sera cotto al solito mo[do], levelo dal foco et lo lavora secondo il modo deli cerotti et sera fatto. Et conservelo dala polvere e per li tuoi bisogni e ti fara onore.