[English translation] If it is thought that one is tubercular, use this powder. Take some large snails in shells in whatever amount you want, and wash them carefully and thoroughly. Then cook them in good vernaza or the best white wine. Remove them from the shell and dry them in the oven in a pan so they do not brown and make very fine powder of them and save them in a clean bottle. Then give a spoonful to the patient to drink with this water, that is with 2 ounces each of water of chicory, of borage and of betony. Give it tepid in the morning at dawn in the form of a syrup. The patient should sleep thereafter for at least an hour. Continue this for 9 mornings and it will give them much sustinance and will also help cure them. Another to cure one who may have refractory tuberculosis. Take one or more glasses of juice of root of elecampane and a glass of purified honey and put them together in a clean little pot on a slow fire and when you have it well skimmed and cleaned, put in a glass of the above-described powder of snails and mix it well and make it in the form of an electuary and save this. Give a spoonful of it to the patient to eat in the evening when he goes to sleep and also in the morning when he gets up. By continuing it for a few days you will see the wonderful result that there will be a rapid improvement. Another to aid in curing one who has developed consumption. Take some goat's milk and put therein some powder made from tamarind or cook some finely-cut tamarind in the milk. Then strain it and fill a bowl and put in a spoonful of the above-described powder of snails and give it warm to the patient to drink early in the morning. Then he should sleep for an hour or repose as long. Continue this beverage for a least 15 days and soon you will see great improvement. Another electuary to cure refractory tuberculosis. It is tested. Take ½ ounce each of cinnamon, cardamon, ginger and cloves and 4 scruples of saffron and some of the powder of snails described above and powder made from turtles in the way that you made that of snails and take one full bowl of each, and one bowl each of flowers of rosemary and borage, ½ bowl each of flowers of broom, of nettle and of mallow, and 1 handful each of white roses, blue violets, rosemary, hyssop, sage, marjoram, mint, melissa and root of couch grass, half a handful each of white dittany, horehound, celery, southernwood and rue, and root of elecampane, scabiosa and root of asparagus, each at your discretion, and ½ ounce of laurel berries. All these things, except the flowers, should be dried in the shade, not in the sun, and made into very fine powder. You can make more or less of it, according to how difficult it seems to you to make it. Use this powder at your discretion. Then take 1 lb. of fresh butter and 2 lb. of clarified and clean honey. Put the honey and butter on a slow fire and when it is well clarified put therein the powder described above, little by little, while it boils and incorporate it well. At the end put in the powdered spices with the saffron and mix them very well on a slow fire until it becomes in the form of an electuary and save this in a suitable bottle in a cool place. Give the patient one dose in the evening when he goes to sleep and also in the morning and he should rest for one hour. By continuing this electuary for one who needs it, soon he will feel and improvement and increase in strength. He should take care of how he lives, keeping to a good life and not being intemperate. That will be sufficient for you to cure him with the remedies described above. ---------- [Italian transcript] Chi dubitasse di essere tisicho usi questa polvere. Rx. dele ciociole ut lumache dele grosse una quantita che a te pare col gusso et lavele politamente e bene. Poi li farai cosere inela vernaza bona ut vino bianco optimo. Poi cavale fora del gusso et falle seccare inel forno in uno tegame che non brusano et ne farai polvere sutilissima et quella conserva in uno alberello netto. Poi tu ne darai uno cugiaro da bere con queste acque al paciente, cioe con acqua di radichio et di boragine et di bertonicha, ana onze ij, et dalla a bere la matina al alba e tiepida in modo di syropo et vi dorma sopra al manco un ora et questo lo continua per 9 matine et li dara molta sustantia e anche li zovera. Item a guarire uno che fusse intratto inel tisico. Farai uno bichiere o piu di succo di radice di ennula campana et torai un altro bichiere di mele purgato et metti insieme in uno pignatino novo al foco lento et quando tu l’arai bene schiumato et purgato et mettivi drento uno bichiere dela sopra detta polvere di lumache et incorpora bene insieme et farai a modo di lattovario et quello lo conserva. Et ne darai a mangiare al paciente uno cugiaro la sera quando il va a dormire, et cossi la matina quando’l si leva et in pochi giorni, continuandolo, tu vedrai mirabile experientia che presto pigliera milioramento. Item per aiuttare a guarire colui che fusse cascato inella tissicaiia. Rx. del latte di capra et mettivi drento dela polvere fatta di tramarino overamente farai cosere inel latte del tramarino tagliato minuto. Poi lo colerai et pigliane piena una scudella et metivi drento uno cugiaro dela sopra detta polvere di lumache et dallo a bere al paciente la matina per tempo cossi caldo. Et poi li dorma sopra per un ora overo se ripossa al quanto et questa bevanda la continui al mancho al manco per 15 giorni et presto vedrai assai miglioramento. Item lattovario per guarire colui che e intratto inel male del tisicho sopra detto, il le e aprobato. Rx. cinamomi, cardamomi, zenzero e garoffani, ana onza s, et zaferano scropuli 4, et dela polvere sopra detta di lumache et polvere fatta di testugine fatta inel modo che tu ai fatta quella di lumache, ana una scudella piena, et fiori di osmarino et di boragine, ana una scudella, et fiori di ginestra et di orticha et di malva, ana meza scudella, et rose bianche e viole zotte e rosmarino e ysopo e salvia e magiorana e menta e melissa et radice di gramigna, ana m. uno, dittamo bianco, marrobbio, appio, abrottano, ruta, ana m. ½, et radice di enula campana e schabbiosa et radice di sparesi, ana a tua discretione, et pomelle di lauro onza ½, et tutte queste cose sopra dette, eccetto che i fiori vogliano essere fatte seccare tutte al ombra e non al sole, et ne farai polvere sutilissima et ne potrai farne piu et meno secundo che a te parera, et tu ne piglierai dele preditte polvere a tua discretione se ella ti paresse troppa. Poi torai bottiro fresco lb. j et mele purgato e netto lb. ij. Poi meterai el mele, el bottiro al foco lento et quando l’arai purgato bene mettivi drento le predette polve[re] a poc a poco mentre chel bole et le incorpora bene et in ultima li metterai le speciarie in polvere col zaferano et incorpora molto bene con lento foco tanto chel diventa in modo di lattovario et quello conserva in vaso atto e stia in loco fresco. Et ne darai al paciente una presa la sera quando il va a dormire et cossi la matina et sopra el se ripossa per un ora et questo lattovario continuandalo avendone lui di bisogno presto si sentira a migliorare et con qui stare le forze. Et conservandosi del vivere, tenendo bona vita, non facendo dissordine, questo sera sufficente di guaritti con li rimedii ditti di sopra.