[English translation] To cause retention of urine for one who suffers from flow. Take pomegranate rind and boil it in water and give that to the patient to drink. Then dry the rind and make very fine powder or instead roast the rind and make fine powder. In the evening when he goes to sleep, give the patient one spoonful to drink in a glass of the boiled liquid or wine. It should be very warm. Do it several times and he will not urinate as much. It is tested. Soft tips of oak boiled with red wine, ground and put several times in the form of a warm plaster on the pubic region keeps the urine from coming out. Another to cause retention of urine. Take the insides of the scaly skins of the leg of the chicken and wash them with vinegar and string them on a thread and dry them in the shade and make them into fine powder. In the evening when the patient goes to bed, give ½ spoonful of the powder with the above-described boiled liquid or with wine or warm broth and soon the urine will be retained. Tested. Another to cause retention of urine in one who cannot. Take 4 ounces each of roots of wild elder and betony, fennel and horehound and 1 ½ drams of mullein flowers, 2 drams of white roses and 6 ounces of cleaned honey. Put everything in a pot and boil it very slowly on a slow fire and add 3 jugs of ordinary water and boil it until only one jug remains and not more. Then strain it and press the herbs very well, extracting the substance and save that for your needs. Give 5 ounces of it to the patient to drink 2 hours before daybreak each time for 4 mornings in a row. In the evening of the same days, rub the area of the kidneys with unguent of sandlewood. Then give 1 dram of finely-powdered rusty fern, that is erba dorata , to drink in distilled water, with 2 ounces each of water distilled from over-ripe jujubes and water distilled from the head of a goat and these should be tepid. Continue this drink until you are cured or nearly. By continuing this, through God's grace, you will be cured. This is a rare and great secret. This malady, where the urine is not retained, comes from dislocation of the neck of the bladder and the anatomy of this has been studied and it is all seen very clearly. Another who urinates during sleep in the bed. Take some goat hoofs and ox hoofs. Dry them and make very fine powder. Then take 1 dram of each, and 1 ½ drams each of acorn caps, myrtle and shepherd's purse all made into fine powder, and put these powders together and give them to the patient to drink with very warm broth or red wine, one glass each time in the evening when he goes to sleep. Do it several times and keep the stomach warm. By continuing this, through God's grace, soon you will cure so that he will not urinate in bed. It It is effective even for one who may be a hermaphrodite, that is a man who may include the genitalia of a woman or a woman those of the man, being created that way by nature. This secret has been tested by many and has helped, through God's grace, many who are cured completely and others who are helped considerably. Another for one who urinates in bed and does not feel it. Take 1 ounce of nettle seeds made into very fine powder and ½ ounce of powdered mastic and put them together and take some dough as large as a fist and knead therein these powders. Then form it into a loaf and cook it in the oven. Then divide it into 3 parts and each morning take one part for 15 days in a row and, through God's grace, you will regain health.... 77 Another for one who may urinate too much through coldness of the kidney or may not be able to retain urine. Take a quantity of bladders of fish from the river, a bladder from a sow, a bladder from a wild boar and half a lung from a kid. Dry everything and make them into very fine powder together. Then take a little galingale and galbanum gum, each the same amount, and carefully make them into fine powder and incorporate everything together. Then in the evening when the patient goes to sleep, he takes one spoonful of it in broth, wine or water and it should be tepid. Do this when the moon is in the first quarter and in a few days the meatus for the urine will be reduced so that one will not urinate too much. This has been verified. For those who urinate in bed. Take some of those flowers that remain on the plant all winter and pulverize them finely and give them to drink as you wish and one will not urinate again in bed. Water of pine nutsdistilled when green will help hold urine wonderfully. ---------- [Italian transcript] A fare ritenere l’orina, a chi ne patisse flusso. Rx. le scorze di melingrano et fale bolire in aqua et di quella ne darai a bere al patiente. Poi farai seccare le ditte scorze et fane polvere suttilissima et etiam dele ditte scorze ne farai brussare et ne farai polvere suttila. Poi ne darai a bere al paciente la sera quando va a dormire uno cugiaro in un bichiere dela ditta bolitura overo vino e chel sia al quanto caldo et falo piu volte e non pissera tanto. E provato. Et cime di quercia tenere bolite con vino rosso peste et messe a modo di impiastro caldo sul petignone caldo piu volte resta orina che non pissera. Item a fare ritenere l’orina. Torai le scorze dele gambe dele galine quella di drento et laveli con aceto et infilzale et fale sechare al ombra e fane polvere sutile et dane la sera ½ cugiaro quando va al letto con la sopra detta bolitura overamente vino o con brodo caldo e presto ritenera l’orina. Probato. Item a fare ritenere l’orina a chi non po. Rx. dele radice de jazoli e betonicha e finochio e prasoli, ana onze iiij, e fiori di tasso barbasso drame js e rose bianche drame ij e mele purgato onze vj. Poi metti ogni cosa in una pignata et falla bolire pian piano con lento foco et li agiongi aqua comune bochali no. 3 et tanto bola che rimanga uno bochale e non piu. Poi la colerai e premi l’erbe molto bene cavandone la sustantia et quella conserva ali bisogni. Poi ne darai al paciente a bere 2 ori avanti dii onze v per volta per 4 matine continue. Et la sera se onga el filo dele rene con unguento sandalino per quelle 4 sere. Poi li darai a bere polvere di citracha, cioe erba dorata, fatta suttilissima drama j datta in aqua stillata di zizole mal mature et di aqua stillata di una testa di capra, ana onze ij e che la sia tepida. Et questa bevanda la continua finche tu sei guarito overo apresso. E questa continuando, per dei gratia, guarirai. Et questo e raro e di optimo secreto. Et questa infirmita ha non potere ritenere l’orina non procede da altro se non di dislogatione del colla dela vissicha et di queste ne statto fatte la notomia e il tutto se veduto del chiaro. Item che pissa in insonio inel letto. Rx. dele onge de capra e onge di buo. Fale sechare et fane polvere suttilissima. Poi ne torai ana drama j et capeletti di gianda e mortella e borsa pastoris tutte fatte in polvere sutila et ne torai ana drame js et meterai insieme le ditte polvere et dale a bere al paciente con brodo o vino rosso al quanto caldo uno bichiere per volta la sera quando l’va a dormire et falo piu volte et tiene caldo lo stomaco et continuando per dei gratia presto guarirai che piu non pisserai in letto. Etiam che fusse homo hermofrodito, cioe chel participasse ineli membri gienitali dela donna overo la donna del homo per essere cosa creato di natura. Et questo secreto e statto provato a molti et etiam a zovato tanto che per dei gratia molti ne sono guariti a fatto et ad alcuni li a zovato assai. Item a chi se pissa sotto inel letto e non sentano. Torai sementa de orticha fatta in polvere sutilissima onza j et polvere di mastice onza s et metteli insieme et torai tanta pasta quanta tu ai grosso il pugno et impastari drento le ditte polvere. Poi ne farai una fogacia et fala cosere nel forno. Poi ne farai 3 parte et ogni matina ne piglierai una parte per 15 giorni continui et, per dei gratia, te rissanerai. Item a chi pissasse tropo per frigideza di rene overe non potesse ritenere l’orina. Rx. una quantita di vissiche di pessi di fiume e una vissicha di una porcha femina e una vissicha di porco salvatico e mezo polmone di capretto. Et ogni cosa farai seccare e fane polvere sutilissima tutte insieme. Poi torai um poco di galangha e di galbina, ana, et col tuo ingegnio falle in polvere sutile et incorpora ogni cosa insieme. Poi la sera quando il paciente va a dormire ne piglia uno chugiaro in brodo o vino o aqua e chel sia al quanto tiepido et questo lo farai quando la luna e ben sema et in pochi giorni se restringerano li meati del orina che non tanto pisserai. E di cosa vera. A quelle chi pissano in letto. Piglia di quelli fiori che rimangano in sun la pianta per tutta la invernata et polverizati sutile et darai a bere come tu voi et non pissera piu. Et l’acqua dele pinelle stillate verde fa ritenere l’orina mirabilmente.