[English translation]

To clarify the sight rapidly.
Take juice of cottonweed and let it stand for one night. Then strain it and put it in a bottle and put therein a little zinc oxide and fine sugar and with this rub the eyes three times a day and you will be cured.
Artificial balsam, very good for any illness of the eyes, the ears and for ringworm.
Take 6 ounces of turpentine, 6 ounces of white incense, 1 ounce of Succotrine aloe, mastic, galingale, cloves, cinnamon, citron, cubeb, nutmeg, 1 dram each, and 6 ounces of milk of fig as fresh as you can get it, and make this composition into fine powder and mix it together in the form of dough. Then put the dough in a glass still with its cover and underneath put its collector and distill the dough with very little fire. Be aware that you will extract 3 kinds of water and collect each in its place and when you see the still change color, change the collector and keep the top well covered so that no steam comes out, and of this be very vigilant because this is of much importance as you will see in the result. Note well that the first water that comes out is called 'water of balsam,' the second is called 'oil of balsam' and the third is called 'artificial balsam,' a liquor that is powerful for abcessed wounds and for infected legs, and cures them quickly. It is powerful in scrophulas, in swollen and tearing eyes and in dizziness. Know how to use this water; these are some of its virtues, viz.:... 19
Note that the first water has these virtues: it cures the eyes with swollen eyelids, rheum and tearing and any other infirmity or swelling of the eyes. By wetting some fine cloth in this water and putting it on the eye in the evening and the morning, you will soon be cured.

Another.
It clears ringing in the ears. Put it in with a little cottonwool in the evening when you go to sleep and again in the morning and you will be cured.

Another.
It is powerful for ringworm and scabies. Bathe yourself with it in the evening when you go to sleep.

Another.
I tell you that this blessed balsam is powerful against venomous bites and for pains from cold, putting it on with wet cloths. It is very powerful for blows and for paralysis, through its warming and penetrance. It cures the bad blood between flesh and skin that is putrefied. Certainly this is the best balsam by this great and manifest proof. Do this experiment: take a chicken, plucked and clean and well dried. Then scald it very well in the fire. Then smear it very well with the balsam water 2 or 3 times. Let it dry in the sun and it will never spoil at any time. The balsam even has many other virtues that are not written here. Be very diligent to know how to distill it and it will bring you honor.
[One remedy crossed out here in the MS]

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[Italian transcript]

A clarificare la vista e presto.
Rx. suco di cartofilago e lasselo stare cosi per una notte. Poi lo cola et mettilo in una ampolla et mettivi drento uno poco di tucia preparata e zucharo fino et con esso ongiti li occhi 3 volti al di e guarirai.
Balsamo artificiato bonissimo per ogni mal di ochii, d’orechie et di tigna.
Rx. trementina onze vj, incenso bianco onze ij, aloe suchultrino onza j, mastice, galanga, garoffoni, cinamomo, citroniaci, chubeb, nuce muschate, ana drama j, et latte di ficho onze vj, et chel sia fresco piu che tu poi, et che le dette composicione siano fatte in polvere suttile et tutte insieme incorporate in modo di pasta. Poi meterai dita pasta in una bozza di vetro col suo capello et sotto il suo recipiente et destillerai la ditta pasta con pochissimo foco et advertisse che tu caverai di 3 sorte aque et tutte le metterai da sua posta et quando tu vedrai la bozza amutare colore et tu muterai lo recipiente e tienlo ben serrato ala bocca che non exali et di questo ne sia molto vigilante per essere cosa de molta importancia come tu vedrai nele sue prove. Et nota bene che la prima aqua che ne viene la si adimanda aqua di balsamo, la 2 si adimanda olio di balsamo, la 3 si adimanda balsamo artiphiciato i quali liquori vagliano ale ferrite infistolite et ale gambe marzose et presto le guarisse et vale ale scrophole, ale palpebre enfiate et lachrimose et ale vertigine, sapendo tu ussare la ditta aqua et queste sono parte dele sue virtu, vz.:
Nota dela prima aqua parte dele sue virtu: La cura li occhi palpedrosi, cisposi e lachrimosi et ogni altra infermita o infiatura deli occhi, bagnando dele pezze suttile in ditta aqua et meterla sopra ali occhi la sera e la matina e presto guarirai.
Item.
La libera del suffilare dele orecchie, posto vene drento con un poco di bambasa la sera quando vai a dormire et etiam la matina e guarirai.
Item.
Vale ala tigna e ala schabia, bagnandosi la sera quando vai a dormire.
Item.
Te dico che questo benedetto balsamo vale contra al morso velenoso et a doglie frigide, ponendo lo sopra con pezze bagnate. Et piu vale ale percosse, et vale ala parlasia per la sua callidita e de penetrante. Et piu cura il sangue corotto tra carne e pelle el quale e putrefatto. Certamente che questo si pol dire un optimo balsamo, alle sue optime et manifeste prove. Et fane questa sperienza: torai uno polastro pelato e netto e bene assutto. Poi lo tiene a scaldare al foco molto bene. Poi lo ongi molto bene con ditta aqua balsamata per 2 o 3 volte. Poi fallo seccare al sole et mai non putira di niun tempo. Et etiam di molte altre virtu che a el ditto balsamo che elle non se scrive, ma sia molto digligente a saperlo distillarlo e ti fara honore.