[English translation] For sickness in pregnancy and malady from the womb. Take a pine cone, fresh or dry, that has within it pine seeds and grate it and grind it very finely and in the evening give a spoonful of it in warm broth or white wine to the woman when she goes to sleep and, if she arises early, also early in the morning, although that is not important. And if she lacks a strong digestion caused by malady from the womb give her a good spoonful, warm, in the morning with warm wine or chicken broth. She should stay warm and take this powder when she feels distress because it acts rapidly. It has been tested by me for both men and women and especially it has worked wonderfully in nuns. Most approved remedy for pleurisy. Take some shells of wild hazel nuts and make very fine powder of them and give a good spoonful to the patient with a pain in the chest to drink with chicken broth or an appropriate water for 2 or 3 mornings. It should be warm. This powder has this property that it breaks those blisters of blood that gather around the heart. But first draw blood following the usual method. The patient should not drink wine, stay warm and you will cure him. Also the tooth of a wild boar, that is the tusk, filed and finely ground, and given to drink with a little linseed oil does the same. Take 1 ounce of linseed oil with a little ground tusk and boil it and give it to drink. It may cure the pleurisy soon. It has been tested. For sickness in pregnancy caused by coldness. Take 1 lb. each of juice of Mercury's herb, of borage and pellitory and 6 ounces of malvasia or very good white wine. Put everything together and boil until it reduces in half. Then strain it carefully and divide it in 7 parts and give it to the patient to drink in the morning in the form of a warm syrup. Before she takes it, first she should urinate and empty the body if she can and you will see a wonderful effect that the pain will leave and she will give birth at her time. Another for the sickness from the womb and in pregnancy. Say these words 3 times in the left ear in the morning early, viz., 'May I be accepted as a vessel of the Lord and I will call for help in the name of the Lord.' Say 'Amen' 5 times in honor of the 5 wounds of Jesus Christ and say it for 3 mornings with 3 Pater Noster and you will cure her rapidly. Another, the best beverage for sickness in pregnancy. Take ½ ounce each of fresh coriander and laurel berries and 2 nutmegs and grind them all into very fine powder. When the woman feels pain within the womb she should take a spoonful of this powder with warm broth, 2 or 3 times a day. Also she should take it with a fresh egg and soon you will cure the pains of pregnancy. Furthermore, if you take the powdered the seed pods of laurel and mix the powder with wine, it will help greatly in the sickness of pregnancy. Another, a fomentation for sickness of pregnancy. Take some dry pine cones and make a fomentation of it from below, keeping it well covered so that the vapors are not lost and it will be of great help to you. Electuary for the stomach and to aid the digestion. Take 4 ounces each of galingale and ginger, 2 ounces each of nutmeg, cloves, cut and cleaned licorice, 1 ounce each of mace and cinnamon, ½ ounce each of long pepper, grains of paradise and cardamon, and 1 lb. of cleaned honey and make these things into fine powder and then incorporate everything together and you will make a perfect electuary of it. Then every morning take 2 ounces of it, more or less according to how you feel the need, and do this 2 hours before a meal and it will give you a very good stomach, comforting the digestion and your feelings. ---------- [Italian transcript] A mal di madre et mal di madrone. Rx. una pigna verda o seccha che abia drento li pignoli, limela e pestela sutilissima et la sera ne darai ala donna quando la va a dormire uno chugiaro con brodo o vino bianco chel sia caldo, et se bene ne desti anche la matina per tempo, non importa. Et se’l fusse homo per difetto dela dura digestione, cioe del madrone, dagliene la matina con vino o brodo de polastro caldo un bon chugiaro e stia caldo et questa polvere la piglierai quando tu senti la passione perche presto fa sua operatione. E per me la e aprobata da homeni et da donne et maxime a monache a fatto opera mirabile. A la punta, rimedio aprobatissimo. Rx. dele scorze di nizole salvatiche et fane polvere sutilissima et dane uno bon chugiaro a bere al paciente dela doglia di petto con brodo di pollo o aqua apropriata per 2 o 3 matine che la sia ben calda et questa polvere a questa proprieta che la rompe quelle vessiche di sangue che si ragunano intorno al core. Ma prima ti farai cavare sangue secondo il suo ordinario e non bere vino e sta caldo e guarirai. Anche il dente del porco cingiale, cioe la sanna, limata e pesta suttile e datto a bere fa quel medemo con un poco de olio de seme lino. Se tu piglierai onza j di olio di seme lino con uno poco di sanna limata e fatto al quanto bolire e datto a bere, presto guarisse dela ponta. E provato. Al mal di madre per fredda causa. Rx. suco di marchorella e di boragine e vitriola, ana lb. j, e malvasia overo vin bianco bono grande onze vj et meti ogni cosa insieme e farai bolire tanto che calli la metta. Poi la coli sutilmente et partela in 7 parte et dala a bere la matina calda a modo di syropo calda. Et avanti che la pilia prima orini et vadi del corpo si puo et vederai opera mirabile chel dolore presto si partira e li fara venire il suo tempo. Item al dolore di madrone e di madre. Dirali inel orechia sinistra la matina per tempo 3 volte queste parole, vz., ‘Calicem domini accipiarem et nomen domini invocabo.’ Et dirai amen 5 volte in honore dele 5 piaghe di jesu christo et dila per 3 matine con 3 pater noster e presto guarirai. Item al mal di madre, bevanda optima. Torai coriandoli crudi e rubache di lauro, ana onza s, e 2 noce muschate et pestale tutte et fane polvere sutilissima. Et quando la donna si sente il dolore drento matrichale alora piglia uno chugiaro dela ditta polvere con brodo caldo 2 o 3 volte al di. Overamente la piglia con ovo frescho et presto guarirai del dolore di madre. Et piu se’l ti paresse di tore la polvere dele robachelle di lauro fate in polvere sutila con vino, molto ti zovera al mal di madre. Item fumentacione al mal di madre. Torai dele pigne secche et ne farai fumentacione per di sotto via stando ben coperta chel fumo non si perda e zoverati assai. Lattovario per lo stomacho et conforta la digestione. Rx. galanga, zenzero, ana onze iiij, noce moschate, garoffani, rigiulitia rasa e monda, ana onze ij, macis, cinamomo, ana onza j, pepi longo, grana paradisi, cardamomo, ana onza s, et melis purgato lb. j, et farai le cose in polvere suttile et le incorpora ogni cosa insieme et ne farai perfetto lattovario. Poi ne piglierai ogni matina onze ij o piu o meno secondo che tu ti sentirai averne di bisogno et cosi 2 ori avanti cena et ti fara bonissimo stomacho, confortandoti la digestione et li sentimenti.