# Table 3 Ingredients/ Methods

Method:
Squeeze the juice of a lemon then place salt in the cut half of the lemon and the lupin flour and mix with a stick to make a paste which you put on the hands to make them white.


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How to remove thorns and splinters from the flesh

Method:
Mix and this will pull out any thorns etc.


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For the pain caused by hemmoroids and burns

Method:
Heat the ointment a little and mix with the varnish used to gild leather which is also used for burns


Method:
Mix the rose water with the juice of a lemon and drink it.


Method:
The smoke of sulpher ricevuto con un'imbottatore nell'ulcere cavernose le risolve*


Method:
Pulverise the acorns and give it to drink to children


Method:
Make a paste and cut into pieces the size of half a chick-pea.


Method:
Mix everything over a slow heat, put in a vase and use cold in the evening.


Method:
Place the fruit in a caraffe when it is still small without removing from the plant so it will grow inside until it is mature


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How to make meat appear as if it is raw, although it has been cooked

Method:
Dry the kid's blood in the oven, then throw it over the meat and cooked meat will appear to be raw, and you can eat it when you like.


Method:
Make an infusion in water and dye it the colour of red wine. IF you want to make it like white wine, add vinegar


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How to counterfeit rubies of every colour


Method:
If you burn these it will stop the flow of blood from the nose and wounds


Method:
Take a cat and put it in a copper basin, with holes in it, with charcoal in it and set this alight so the cat gets burnt and starts yowling. Other cats will run to see, and will not leave until it dies, and those watching the cats trying to get close to the burning one, will find it so funny that you will be amazed at their laughter.


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For inflammed testicles and St. Anthony's fire

Method:
Boil the herbs in water, then make an embrocation with the oil.


Method:
Crush, sieve with honey 'secondo l'arte' and make an electuary.


Method:
oil of sulpher used separately. Mix the other ingredients to make an electuary.


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For those with tuberculosis and those whose gall bladder has ruptured. (Sparso il fiele)?

Method:
Take the crushed sulpher in a jar, attach another jar above it and seal them. Place in an oven and light the fire, so that from the jar above the 'flower' will come out, whose seed (sublimira il fiore del qual seme se ne da meza dramma) should be given in wine or soup to asthmatics and chi ha sparso il fiele.


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How to ensure that an underweight coin weighs enough


Method:
Take a jug of water, in which you put two drops of oil of vetriolo, so the water becomes bitter and this will slake your thirst, as well as being of great beneift to your kidneys


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For fleshyness (carnosita-swellings?) on the penis


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How to heal sores and ulcers on a man's penis

Method:
Apply the oil of sulpher, then medicate with the unguent rubbed over it morning and evening.


Method:
Pulverise the savine and place over the piles. It will eat them painlessly. When they are calloused they must first be rubbed with oil of vetriolo


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To mature boils and sores (tenconi e aposteme)

Method:
Crush the coste and bulbs, first cooked under the brazier, in a mortar. Add butter and chicken fat, yeast and saffron, an amount the size of an egg for each. Apply tepid for several days, and when the boil bursts, cure with a digestivo of trementina, egg yolk, and the rose oil.


Method:
For 20 days take the following pills. Make pills from these, about 1 scrupolo each in size.


Method:
Darli lettione spesso, get up early, dine soberly, water down your wine, and then add 4 grains of incense to the wine in winter. In summer, make a decotion of dried grapes and take 2 finger-height of this for 15 days.


Ingredients:
Put two oranges di 'mezo sapore' stuck full of cloves, and leave to soak in the wine.


Method:
Make a focaccia of millet flour, break into pieces and place hot in the container in a handkerchief, then cork the bottle and leave for 6 hours and remove.


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How to keep wine and prevent it from going musty

Method:
Stir the wine with a piece of elm which has had the bark removed from it


Method:
Pick the blackberries (more di rava?) when still unripe and dry in the sun or an oven. Pulverise and  throw in wine which has gone off and stir it daily for quarter of an hour for 8 days, morning and evening.


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For the crusts and boils of mal francese

Method:
Take equal amounts of the ashes of holy wood and lead and tartar to make a lineament with the oil.


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To prevent hair from falling out (Caused by mal francese)


Method:
Mix and use as a wash morning and evening


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So that the vineyard or field will be fertile

Method:
Take powdered corals, sow in the corners.


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How to ensure that a vine or tree smells of musk

Method:
Make a hole in the trunk, or stem, through to the core, and put a little musk or scamonny, seal well.


Method:
Take a well-sealed jar of wine and place in hot water, boil for a while


Method:
Take barley and crush well, put in a pan and heat well, put in a jar whilst hot and seal carefully. It is done.
(no mention made of the wine)


Method:
Wash the animal well several times in this.


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For receeding gums (Corrosione de le zenzive)

Method:
Dissolve the theriac in good hot wine, as hot as you can bear. It will heal it.


Method:
Take shavings of the horn, and place in a new jar with water. Hold the water in your mouth to remove the pain.


Method:
Dissolve the excrement in hot water. Rub on the face and hands for a wonderful effect.


Method:
Take the second skin/peel/bark of the sambuco, the green one, and boil with the wax and oil over a slow fire until reduced by one third. Strain through a muslin cloth and leave to cool. Use this on the burns.


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How to ensure that the burn does not leave any scars

Method:
Wash the wound three times in the blood before putting anything on it and no sign will remain.


Method:
Take no more than one glass of oil, e 'li sia messo el cristero', then find rat droppings and crush them, mix with the honey and make a suppository (una soposta)? I bona forma e epuato.


Method:
Mix the pepper and orpimento, both well powdered, add the old wine and honey, making a syrup. Drinking this will chase away a cough and cure the lungs and heal the voice.


Method:
Keep pepper in your mouth to clear the voice


Method:
Dry the flowers in the sun be careful that it does not rain on them. Pulverise and take one spoonful at a time, dissolved in good wine.


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How to know whether someone has  poisoned the food on the table

Method:
Put a glass or goblet of recalco on the table. When poison comes near the table the glass or goblet will change into several colours 'per molte linee' and peltro acts similarly.


Method:
Chop finely and put the herbs in good wine, leave for 1-2 hours, strain and drink.


Method:
Take the dung from their stall, fry in a pan with a little oil and use hot.


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For a weak stomach which cannot hold down food

Method:
Pulverise the excrement and give to drink in wine or broth


Method:
Take green leaves and cook in oil until you have an ointment.


Method:
Take the gall and rub the stomach and the shoulders 'per alincontro si e masculo masculo si e femina femina.'


Method:
put on a griddle over the fire, leave to dry without burning. Powder and put in the nose.


Method:
Hold this herb in your hand, watch it closely and the nosebleed will stop


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For someone who is spitting up/coughing up blood


Method:
Rec. pionian e trita subtiliter e fac pulvere subtile: postea recipe deosse teste hois defuncti sive famule defuncte e rade de illo osse con uno cultello e tolle de pilis unius canis albi e icide minutissime e ex istis tribus fac…give to drink in broth and rub the back of the neck with olio costino


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How to make a woman urinate, against her will

Method:
Put in a hot sauce, in front of the woman and she will urinate against her will


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For those who fall from a height and are in pain


Method:
Cook the herb in good wine and put in his food.


Method:
Use spit to extinguish the mercury, mix everything and rub where you have seen them and they will die


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How to kill grubs (pedicelli) which come on the hand

Method:
Burn the shells until like hot coals, put the semola and seeds on them.


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How to ensure that a woman will conceive

Method:
Crush and give to drink with the wine. Her menses will cease and she will concieve. ('cesante el mestruo e concepita'


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How to ensure that your doves stay in your dovecot, and get rid of the doves of strangers


Method:
Make a taccia of ivy wood, not too big, put the wine in it, si fara acqua in el vino tutta lacquale vederai a lagrimar for a della tacia.


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How to prevent wine from becoming too strong

Method:
Take a piece of green willow wood and make many holes in it , low down, and fill with honey. Tie the wood with a needle and dip into the barrel of wine and seal well, then drink the wine.


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Si visscire morte alicuius infirmi (How to find out whether a sick patient will die)

Method:
Tolle urinam eius e lac mulieris masculu lactantis e simul misce, si se coagulauerit vivet, si non morietur probatum est.


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How to gather all the pulesi (pulci?) in a room on a stick

Method:
Rub a stick with the fat and they will go on it, then do as you wish with them.


Method:
If you rub asses milk anywhere, all the puleci of the house will gather there.


Method:
Pone ipsum i acqua clara e percute con uno ligno si aqua turbaverit non est bonus si clara erit est bonus e semper vadit ad locum ubi posusti.


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How to tell si la femina e grossa quello che ha da far
(How to tell the sex of an unborn child)

Method:
put the appio on her head, without her knowing of it. If she says a masculine word (se parlara parola masculina) a male will be born, a feminine word, it will be a female, if she says nothing it will be dead or will not live.


Method:
Take honey and burn it until black and has crystallised. Put a little in water.


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How to get rid of a skin rash (A destruendum volaticas)

Method:
Take the Juice of the celidonia and rub on the rash and it will go away.


Method:
Crush the leaves between stones, or in a mortar, and rub over the sting.


Method:
Cook the herb until reduced by a third, take a good half glass and drink it, and wrap the herb around the knees three times and you will be better.
(Recipe agrimonia, e cuosila sina che laqua sia clata fina la terza parte e de quella aqua aievno quanto sia etc. )


Method:
Clean the bark off the wood-place in the wine?


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How to turn wine which has turned to vinegar back into wine


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How to make a sauce in powder which will last for 2 years

Method:
Roast the bread well in the oven, then put it in strong vinegar. Take rosemary flowers and leaves, crush and mix in. Take the cumin and soak in the vinegar and over a hot griddle dry the pepper, ginger, cloves, etc. To use, take a little of the powder and add vinegar or citrus juice and you will have a precious 'salsamento'


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How to ensure that a hen will not run away….


Method:
Take a drop of strong white vinegar, and a un bezo of the litargirio and boil in a glazed jar, until it boils. Leave ot rest until it clarifies and put it da psi* and in the other glass take the lemon or orange juice . When you wish to play the trick, (fare la gentilezza) put the juice in the vinegar and it will become milk, which everyone will think is real milk.


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How to make a marrow grow in just four hours

Method:
Leave the seed soaking in a man's blood for 15 days, dry in the sun, plant, etc.


Method:
Boil the sublimate in a cauldron of water, until reduced by half, wash over the room three times and sweep carefully, and you will have no more fleas.


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How to expel bladder stones through the urine

Method:
Take saxifrage water and the paretaria, in equal amounts and drink in the morning on an empty stomach.


Method:
Boil the rosemary and drink on an empty stomach.


Method:
Take equal quantities of each, pulverise, put some in a jar to boil with the sour malvasia, which must be old and good. Then take the incense in plant form. When the fever rises, go to bed, take a hot goblet and put the incense over it and destuerai with some of the malvasia. Place it hot on your spinal column, and wrap up well. The rest of the wine, with the spices added, should be drunk immediately. Then cover yourself well so you sweat and try to sleep. The fever will leave in three days.


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How to revive the colour of a washed black cloth

Method:
Boil the leaves in water and wash the cloth in that water.


Method:
Take fresh urine or vinegar, rub well and wash afterwards in hot water with soap.


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The colour of purple lilies for illuminating (miniare)


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Remedy to protect onself from or heal Tertiary fever:

Method:
Take a glass of cold fresh water, squeeze a lemon into it, with the pips, drink and eat the pips.


Method:
Take the formento when it has made its first bud, boil in water and use this water to wash the hair several times.


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A paint which can be used on picture frames so they look as if they are gilded.


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Remedy for sciatica and other similar pains

Method:
Rub the painful area with the oil, standing as near to the fire as possible, applying it every so often. If this doesn't work, boil the fiorume in wine, and make a foment for this area to apply several times.


Method:
Make a funnel of paper, open at the base and set the top on fire. Put a plate at the bottom to receive the smoke and oil and use this to rub on the rash with a finger.


Method:
Take some cups of coffee with lemon juice before the fever rises, and two after it. But do it just before the fever.


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How to make Siviglia ( A kind of tobacco)

Method:
Pulverise the tobacco, pass through a fine piece of silk. Take the English red earh, rub over the hands and work the tabacco with your hands, until they take the colour from the earth. Put the tabacco in a glazed  earthenware pot, and put a piece of cane in the middle, closed at the bottom end, and peeled, so humidity can enter and fill with moscato. Place the cloves and two pieces of cinnamon (cannella soda) and leave until there is just a finger's depth of the liquor-careful that it doesn't dry out completely. Then remove, take oil of Bon, rub the hands and rub over the tabacco until it becomes like a paste, you can also put it in the mortar, place in a tin vase and in 'una pignatta entrovi della rena per conservarlo.'


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How to bleach linen and hemp cloth in 8 days


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How to tan hides with no hair on and whiten them


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How to wash leather-as in garments, specifically trousers


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How to redye black leather. (as in clothing-trousers mentioned)


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How to stop black leather from leaving stains


Method:
Boil the nettle root in the wine until reduced by a third. Drink it when the fever starts and carry on.


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How to make an excellent Polvere da Stioppo

Method:
Squeeze out the onion juice and put many drops in a quantity of powder, making it damp. Then put in a dry marrow for 8 days. Place in the sun for an hour a day, remove and keep.


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How to get rid of bladder stones through urinating

Method:
Take equal quantitites of lemon juice, onion roots.


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Turquoise cloth, and other kinds. How to wash it.


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How to make 'Marmo scaiola' (Marbled limestone?)


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Calf-hide and vacchetta. How to dye it black


Ingredients:
La pietra che si trova nella testa delle lumache

Method:
Take the lerzora di ragno, wrapped in the cialda, and if it is no use take another. The stone found in the snail's head can also be used, crushed and taken in soup on an empty stomach.


Method:
Take the onion juice and mix with oil. Rub the hair and the nits will grow, and then you will be able to remove them with a comb.


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Something which will make you pass your stools

Method:
Take some soap and use as a suppository. Place in the anus, which will hurt a little, but it will work.


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A ruptured gall bladder (Spargimento di fiele) A sure way to cure it

Method:
Take the wine, beat in the egg yolk, then the white and leave out on a clear night.


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Sale volatile; how to make them. (Smelling salts?)

Method:
Take powdered al'armoniaco and mix them and scent as you wish.


Method:
Take butter  in proportion to the patient's complexion, boil it in a cup of broth.


Method:
Beat the yolk in the acquavite, drink and then move energetically, changing the shirt every time you sweat and then go to bed. Otherwise, squeeze the juice of half a lemon into the cup of coffee, and drink an hour before the fever rises.


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How to tan embossed leather (corame) or suolo.


Method:
Pulverise everything, make pills with the honey and take them in the evening one hour before dinner for 15-18 days. (seguitando 15-18 giorni, prendendole la sera, etc.)


Method:
Take the nitre in poweder, mix the two and heat in a small earthen pot or crucible a spoon at a time, and leave to calcify as it wishes, whether white or yellow. Then purge in water to dissolve the nitre and dry it.


Method:
It is made of the excrement of a dog which has eaten only bones for three days and nothing else.


Ingredients:
Canfora
Sevo=I presume the same as seva?
The olive oil 'fatto rosato'

Method:
Cook the minio in the oil and water in a tegame over a slow heat, mixing continuously. At the end add the fat and powdered camphor.


Ingredients:
Madreperle
Allume usto=same as allume arsa


Method:
Take equal quantities of each and pulverise finely


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Decotion for the teeth, for rinsing the mouth out when the teeth are rotton

Ingredients:
Sisimbro=sisembrio, I presume
And spirit of coclearia

Method:
Take equal parts, make a dose in white wine and water and after straining add the spirit of coclearia.


Ingredients:
Written redoaria, it must be zedoaria?
Garofani=garofoli

Method:
Take the husk of the China, fine roots of angelica, and the other ingredients and soak in the acqua vite, leaving for 24 hours in bagno maria without letting it boil. Then strain.


Method:
Put everything in an iron pan, with rain water and every time it dries, add hot water, keep it boiling for two days and when you finally see the black tincture, strain through linen and then sugar paper and put over a fire to turn it into a syrup


Method:
Take the sale di tartaro and vinegar and put in a cucurbita made of glass to dissolve the vinegar, reduce over a flame and add more vinegar until it no longer bubbles and is dry. Then add powdered sale di marte. Put everything in a boccia over a low flame for 4 days, or just in the sun, the add the wine spirit, over a low heat until it turns the colour of blood. Then empty and it will be ruby coloured.


Method:
Pulverise, put in a bronze mortar, heat with a little coal and it will unite, then separate off the residue.


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Antimony liver, colour of a rotting leaf (fogliamarcia)


Ingredients:
Grana Hermes,=is this Hermes, grains of?
Abbreviatio Margh. Used. I assume daisy

Method:
Confessione (confection?) secondo l'arte and add the gold leaf. First boil the grana in the water with the sugar, then strain and cook to a syrup and add the other drugs. (droghe)


Ingredients:
Take 1 lb of the syrup for 3 ozs of the mixed spices
Ing. 15 could be wrong-surely sandali bianco and citrino?


Method:
Leave to macerate for 24 hours, then distill.


Ingredients:
The word given is ' trementina': I assume this is termentina.

Use strained pine resin.


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A cream for washing the hands and softening them

Ingredients:
pinelle-I assume pignuoli
then says
'di zucchino da olio mondati'

Method:
Crush everything, adding acquavite now and again so the oil "non renda" and afterwards put over a fire. Keep in glazed jars.


Method:
Beat over a fire and at the end add the nerofumo and egg white and thow onto paper.


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Varnish made from copal gum. (Vernice di gomma copale)


Ingredients:
acqua di rage (ragio di pino- I suppose)


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A varnish for sticking images onto glass


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Another easier plaster for attaching marble


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Gold; how to recognise whether it is real or false


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Cheeks; how to keep them fresh (carni, modo di mantenerle fresche)


Method:
Beat the mastic,  and gum in powder, then add the camphor in powder, finally the cinabrio, removing immediately from the fire.


Method:
Powder the ingredients, crush together for 30 hours continuously, then mix and pass through' stacci per darli la grana' .You can tell whether it has been well ground, after mixing it, cut it, and if it is white inside it hasn't been mixed enough.


Method:
Leave powdered belladonna root in a glass of wine for 6 hours. Strain and give to drink. When the person wants to eat good food, he won't be able to. IF you want his appetite to return, give him vinegar.


Method:
Mix the juice and wine before the chill comes and walk about,. Do not dine when taking this remedy.


Method:
Take the nettle tips and apply to the wound, or the vinegar.


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Headaches, dizziness, epilepsy, migranes (emicrania)


Ingredients:
Dissolve the pitch in acquavita and spread over a piece of leather and apply to the painful area


Method:
Mix the distilled acqua di malva with the wine and wash the eyes morning and evening


Ingredients:
"Ossi di testuggine," surely refers to the shell?

Method:
Take the calcified ossi, place in a glass of wine or beer : 
(vino di birra?)


Method:
Take a live lizard, put in a closed saucepan and put in the oven. When dead and cold make a hole in it and put the acqua forte and acqua vite in. Close the opening, replace in the fire. Let the liquid evaporate, and pulverise. Then rub the teeth with it. The gum around the tooth will disappear. (sparera)


Method:
Calcify the cicadas, and using the vinegar extract the salt from the ashes, giving 12, 15-16 grains.


Method:
Take the albo greco, heat up a stone until it is burning, throw it in milk and add the powder. . Give to drink to the patient twice daily.


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How to extract dye from minerals and corals


Method:
Place over a circle (sopra un cerchio) a piece of fine linen and place over it a layer of white roses, one of the sambuco flowers and one of fennel, another or roses, one of fennel and one of celidonia. Place a copper basin over a low flame for a long time so the water below will distil, and use this to bathe the eyes.


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The mouth; how to heal and get rid of the smell produced by corruption in the stomach

Method:
Pulverise and make an electuray with the honey.


Method:
Take more rue and assentio than the other ingredients. Crush, boil in a cauldron with enough walnut oil and when the herbs are black, strain and add the ingredients at 9-12: Strain and leave for 6 weeks in dung.


Method:
Put into hot water, she will give birth to it immediately


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How to recognise whether a woman is pregnant

Method:
Take her urine, put in a well cleaned iron plate for a night. If she is pregnant there will be some drops of blood on the iron. If not, it will turn black and rusty.


Method:
Macerate the flowers in the storace and rosewater for two days. Then take about one pound of lean meat (di bestia magra)and crush together and boil (e si bolli dopo strutto e si coli) ? , strain and leave the fat to deposit, then make plasters as desired.


Method:
Take the powdered lacca and allume and mix, steep in the water of the stone and leave until it takes the colour. Strain and keep.


Method:
Cook the biacca with the oil, add a little water so it stays white and then add the wax.


Method:
Soak the scorpions for 40 days in the sun, then boil in a bagno maria. Then add the remaining ingredients, boil for 3 days, strain and use.


Method:
Scent with these things. If this is too strong, add musk and amber. You can make angel water by leaving these drugs to infuse in rosewater and you can fill the pillows with these drugs, added to roses.
Not clear. 
(E con queste droghe si possono unire alle rose per empire li suddetti, ma senza odori.(


Method:
Having extracted the juice, mix with strong acqua vite and water with white sugar. Make a rosolio and infuse everything in bagno maria.


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Paste for the intaglio on picture frames; which can later be gilded


Method:
Mix together over a flame, melting the gums and then spread on the skin, and apply over the stomach.


Method:
Dissolve the caligine in the acqua forte, so it shines. Strain and put on the wood, then the varnish.


Method:
Infuse in the acqua vite, then add the theriac. Distil, so it remains 'spiritosa' and add sugar and filter


Method:
Infuse for 8 days, strain and take in the morning on an empty stomach


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Dizziness when standing (stravolta di piedi). How to cure


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How to cast medals so fine you can recognise even the subject's hair


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How to put silver plate on copper and brass


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Another way of silver plating copper and brass


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How to give tin the sound and beauty of silver


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How to purge and whiten Copper. Excellent for waste from bells


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How to put silver on mirrors or glass balls


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Another way to put silver on mirrors, or convex or concave objects


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Silver and gold ground (in shells):to  put in shells ?


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How to gild with silver or copper powder


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How to engrave wood with letters or patterns


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How to make sapphires and jacinths look like diamonds


Method:
Give tiny pieces of the talc to doves which have not eaten for 24 hours. Collect those they regurgitate, which is after about 6 hours and place in a tin jar, sealed well and put in ice or snow for 4 months. It will turn to oil, and is worth more than gold.


Method:
Use the rosewater to dilute the ingredients


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How to remove oil stains from cloth without wetting it


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How to make a pomander of orange flowers

Method:
Put the lard in the basin with the orange flowers which have been crushed and had the green stem removed. Leave for 3-4 days, then boil in a saucepan put in a caldarotto, (?) full of water, for half an hour. Then strain and leave to cool. Remove the residue and add the remaining 3 lbs of clean flowrs, repeat, and once again.


Method:
Dissolve the alum in water, when it boils add the clove and saffron powder , then put on paper to dry until hard as stone. The dissolve in water and it will make an oil. Use this to rub on the teeth-they will become white and pain will disappear. Cleaned malva roots will also whiten teeth. Keep hot cow's milk in the mouth to relieve the pain.


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A Wax figure which floats (?) (che resti a mezzo a due acque)


Method:
Comb it as if for spinning and smear veal excrement on the linen, leave for 4-6 hours then wash.


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How to cure someone who has suffered great fear or fright


Method:
Take the hornet by the horns and hold it in your hand near the painful area until it is dead.


Method:
Collect them under the september moon whilst still blue and place in white wine for 24 hours. Then remove and put in a jar with acqua vite and a little sugar.


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How to heal a skin rash (volatiche=large red itchy patches

Method:
Mix and strain the caligine and make a salve.


Method:
Dry the herb in the shade, powder and give to drink in wine


Method:
Boil the lily onions and rub on the hair. Or, mix camomile oil with pulvserised fig leaves dried in the shade.


Method:
Put in hot oil for 9 days. Then dry in the sun and plant.


Method:
Take short-haired fine furs like sable, mix litargirio of gold, calcina viva in powder, mix with urine. Rub on the fur, dry in the shade, keep one fur on top of the other and when dry it will be ready.


Method:
Put the musk in a silver spoon over a fire. IF good it will melt, if bad it won't move and will burn and don't trust the scent.


Method:
Shave the soap with a knife and spread over a table. Bathe with acqua vite twice in 6 days. Then add the amido in powder and any scents you wish.


Recipe Name:
How to print on canvas without damaging them (modo d'imprimerle perche non si trincino


Recipe Name:
How to make minerals melt like the earth found in mines


Recipe Name:
How to sow all kinds of grain and cereals in such a way as to profit in five ways


Recipe Name:
Oil of Potassium nitrate (saltpeter)and sal' alcali


Recipe Name:
How to stick images to glass, take away the paper and then illuminate them (??) Attaccare immagini sul vetro e mandare via la carta per poi miniare le dette


Recipe Name:
How to dye Parchment green. Safe and experiemented


Recipe Name:
Tincture of China 'spiritosa' from Doctor Presciani

Method:
Infuse for 8 days, then filter through sugar paper


Method:
Pulverise both mercury and gum finely, mix in an earthenwar mortar adding small quantities of fountain water. Keep on grinding for one hour, until like a grey slime. Before you finish, add the balsam and powdered  liquorice and make a paste. Then make 259 pills to use as ordered.


Method:
Crush the china China roughly. Boil in water several times until the solumble parts of the peel have been extracted. Strain the boiled waters and mix and evaporate to get the correct consistency for the extract. Be careful; if you wish to follow the advise of the very well-known gentleman, Doctor Lorenzo Presciani, you should boil it 3 times, first with water, second with abundant white wine and third with spirito di vino.


Method:
Pulverise and add enough gentian extract to form 80 pills.


Recipe Name:
Another Recipe for Oppilation: Martinetti solubili del Villanova

Method:
pulverise and form in a press, making 40.


Ingredients:
The walnuts should be 'pulite' perhaps shelled.


Recipe Name:
So called Pampepato with half the flavour


Recipe Name:
So called refined Pampepato (sopraffino)

Method:
Crush 3 lbs of the almonds and toast the other 6 lbs


Ingredients:
Can use Radica Fiorentina instead of the iris.

Method:
These doses serve for 1 barrel of wine. Take mature white grapes, Crush in a twhen it has begun to boil, remove the must and put in a large tub. Add the drugs and leave to infuse for 8-10 days, depending on the strength of the grapes. Then remove the wine, pour into another vase or flasks, filtering it as you do to keep it clear and without a deposit. Then add the ingredients.(Not clear -seems to say to add them twice).
If making for medicinal purposes, 'piu stomatico', you can increase the assentio and add fresh steel filings to steep for 2-3 days. This can be done in one of the flasks, which can be for medicinal use.


Ingredients:
The wine must be excellent and which has been chilled for 10-12 days.

Method:
Pulverise the glass of antimony . Be sure to do this in a vase made of porphory or glass, for reasons which are well known. and dissolve in the cold wine for 10-12 days, stirring three times a day. Then leave to form a sediment for 1-2 days, decant and pass through sugar paper, keep in a well-sealed glass vase.


Recipe Name:
Notes by the Sig. Doctor presciani for an attack of nervous hypochondria, known as as the 'flato ipocondriaco.'*


Method:
Steep for 24 hours, then strain and add the apple juice, strain once again.


Method:
Take the pulp of plums cooked in water and reduced to the right consistency. Add the pulp to the clarified cooked sugar , then add the other ingredients.


Recipe Name:
How to tell whether essential oils have been falsified with fatty oils

Method:
You can tell this by dropping a few drops into rectified wine spirit, because the wine spirit with unite with the essential oil, whilst fatty oil remains as it is.


Recipe Name:
How to tell whether essential oils have been falsified with wine spirit

Method:
you can tell because if you put some drops in water, and the water forms a milky cloud, it has been mixed with wine spirit. They may also be mixed with other less valuable essential oils, such as oil of tormentina. To see whether this is the case, take a linen cloth and throw in oil and take it close to a fire. This will dissipate the scented part of the false oil, whilst the smell of tormentina, which is much stronger, will remain.


Recipe Name:
A plaster for the kidneys from the Casertano

Ingredients:
Ing. 5/6 is transcribed as rose rosse Sommacco. But my feeling is this is two separate ingredients, red roses and sommaco. 
Also, can be sandali citrini instead

Method:
Crush together ingredients 1-11: and pass through a sieve as a fine powder. Then add ing.12-15. Mix and leave to one side. Then add the remaining ingredients. Mix well over a low flame, finally add the strained black pitch. Once well mixed, remove from the heat , add the powders, cool and conserve as it is.


Method:
Place everything in a copper pan (caldaretta)*which is placed over a low flame and kept there until everthing has liquefied. Then strain and keep this over a moderate heat so it doesn't cool down. Dip pieces of linen in it, leaving them to get impregnated , remove and pass between two flat 'slices'/spatulas, so they are equal and not too heavy with the waxy mixture, then leave to cool and keep.


Method:
Liquefy over a low flame and form maddaleoni.


Method:
Pulverise well, then add the rose syrup. Make pills as needed.


Method:
Take the sugar, heat in a brass cauldron. Then add the beaten egg whites. Before putting them in however, make sure the first one has mixed well with the first. Then start adding the lemon juice and cinnamon water, then beat in the sugar until it is white. Keep it all over a low flame, the add the heated pine kernels 'bene uniti alla lazza se ne formeranno pezzetti di figura di ricciarello.' They will stick to the 'lazza' and form curly pieces? Note. If you see that the lazza is too hard, before adding the pine kernels, add a little water, to give it a metter consistency.


Recipe Name:
Preparing pinottoli  (A sweetmeat made from pine kernels?)

Method:
Take the pinottoli, put in a cauldron with bran over a low flame and mix with the hands, so they cover the bran with the sticky substance within. Once this has been removed, remove the cauldron and separate the pinottoli from the bran and put in a cloth and shake/rub until they become white, with the bran clean off.


Method:
Clarify the sugar and bring to cook like barley sugar. Once done, remove the vase from the fire and with a wooden spoon stir very slowly until it becomes white. Once cooled, pass through a fine foratina. Do the same for the sugar, which will be used to make the pinocchiate described above.


Method:
Mix, take in two days when there is no fever. ? (che non tocca febbre)


Method:
Pulverise the vetriolo, take the camphor and dissolve in the wine. Then mix with the vetriolo, and water.


Recipe Name:
Water for constipation and for haemmoraging of blood

Method:
Mix in a bronze mortar, until perfectly fine, then mix with the plantain water, steeping them, and adding the vitriol spirit.


Method:
Chop and put ingredients 1-8 into a glass orinale*. Then pour over it the filtered juice of motricaria, the marcorella and wine. Leave to steep for 3-4 days, then distil using a bango maria, until 3 lbs of liquor have been distilled which you keep.


Method:
Put everything into a glazed earthenware pot, over a low flame, first pouring some vinegar over it so the mixture takes the consistency of honey. Then add the ingredients at 6-9 and mix well, until it has evaporated and solidified. To use, 'si masini assai finamente per 2 o 3 oz di questa massa solida' and mix with 10-12 oz of vinegar. Dip a piece of linen rag into this solution,and apply to the wound, changing according to need every 4,6, or 8 hours.


Recipe Name:
Tincture of cantarelle, Sig. Batte the Englishman's recipe.

Method:
Pulverise the cantarelle, mix with the wine spirit and leave to steep in the sun for 3 days. Then filter through sugar paper and leave to rest in a suitable vase.


Recipe Name:
Pills for removing obstructions for oppilation from Sig. Doctor Giuseppe Giuli


Ingredients:
Wine from Malaga or Lisbon-presumably because it keeps better, as explained earlier in the book.
It says 2.5 litres of wine, but can this be correct-were litres in use?

Method:
Steep in a vase for 8 days, filter and use.


Method:
Pulverise the cream of tartar, the borax should be refined. Boil the water. Filter the solution. Evaporate over a slow flame in a glazed earthenware pot  until it becomes a powder. Towards the end mix, so it doesn't burn. Keep in a well sealed vase, so it cannot be affected by damp.


Method:
Liquefy the oil, wax and termentina. Then once cooled, spread the other ingredients over, stir well for one hour.


Method:
Ogni capo di robba pestato e separatamente posto entro diversi cenci si fa bollire nell'olio, ponendovelo fin da quando si mette al fuoco.


Recipe Name:
Recipe for making vermouth from Casa Terrosi


Recipe Name:
How to make short-crust pastry for a tart


Method:
Reduce separately to powder, then unite in a glazed earthenware pot . Dissolve a little in the rosewater, then add the pork fat, mix well with a wooden spoon.


Method:
Infuse for 24 hours in water, then dip a piece of linen in the mixture and place over two hot cloths and place over the area. Repeat as necessary.


Recipe Name:
Mixture for restoring frescoes, or to lighten them.


Method:
Mix in a glass vase, distil in bagno maria, filter and keep.


Recipe Name:
Tincture of Tebiac unaltered from the London pharmacopea

Method:
Macerate for 8 days and strain, adding then the wine spirit.


Ingredients:
Doesn't specify how much sweet mercury: perhaps the same as Diagredia?


Method:
Mix. The verderame is added when the mixture is nearly cold


Method:
Boil in a glazed vase, reduce by a half, filter and keep for bathing.


Ingredients:
Written 'recipe cera vasina, navale, nera, trementina, grasso di maiale, "
I assume this means "cera navale, cera nera, "

Method:
Liquefy the wax, termentina and fat, then add the honey. Strain this and add the oil of vitriol and alchohol once it has cooled.


Method:
Unite the two chemicals-the first pulverised-and melt in a crucible. When they start to fuse, throw into an iron pan, pulverise and boil in water for 30 mins. Then strain over a linen cloth, with white sugar paper over it. Once cold, throw the suphuric acid over it,, until it precipitates, then wash with cold water several times. Filter (?) and dry in the shade.


Method:
Mix all. Remove the stalks from the cherries, crush, put in a 'bigongia', add the drugs and liquors indicated, and to make the mixture more bitter, crush some hazelnuts. Leave to infuse for 33 days, stirring every now and again. Squeeze, and place in well sealed flasks, later remove and put in flasks or bottles.


Method:
Bathe the affected area with ingredients 1-2. 
Or, take ingredients 3-4 and use externally.


Recipe Name:
Purging recipe for worms, from Sig. Le Roy.

Method:
Make a cold infusion for 3 days, then squeeze, add the tartar, filter and use.


Method:
IN taniso in bagno maria for 12 hours, filter  and sieve, add the prepared syrup in the following manner. Steep the sena in boiling water, then strain and add the sugar. Make a julep, which mixed with the tincture will make a elixir.


Method:
Make sure the salt is dry and powdery,. Keep apart until you unite, since everything will evaporate in a glass jar with hot ashes.


Method:
Mix the first 3 ingredients and leave to steep, add the sugar and make a julep which is united with the tincture.
(Presumably Tincture of China, recipe 2464)


Recipe Name:
Cerotto per le scarpe (A wax/cream for shoes?)


Method:
Mix the substances carefully. They will rapidly turn to a liquid paste, so add some mucillage, into which dip the solfinelli. When dry they will burn in the acid.


Recipe Name:
Water of cinnamon spirit (cannella spiritosa)

Ingredients:
what does 'detta stillata' refer to? Perhaps distilled acqua rosa? 6 dens.


Method:
Pulverise the soap and potassa, put in a 'matraccio', pour the wine spirit over and leave to steep for 4 days, then filter.


Method:
Chop well, and mix the first 4 ingredients over low flame.
For internal haemorrhoides make injections with ingredients 5-7.  Ing. 7 can substitute.


Method:
Mix the drugs, steep in the spirit, meanwhile take the cochineal and pulverise the allum and remove the {…} aromatic water, therefore the capo morto {…} with the sugar.


Method:
Melt over a low flame, and 'si diacci', making them absorb water.


Ingredients:
The Ivory should be burned, and can be substituted with Arsenic.


Method:
Pulverise separately, then mix with the scented conserve.


Recipe Name:
A disinfecting vase  or bottle (boccella)


Method:
Pulverise eveyrthing and place in an iron pan, or glazed vase and boil until reducd by a half.


Ingredients:
Butter at 2, and 8 are from a specific animal, not clear which/what.


Method:
Mix. The alchohol is to dissolve the salts.


Method:
Salt the mixture as you please, cook in a casserole with a little butter. Throw the pasta/pastry in small portions in a vase of cold water, then place on a ray, stirring in butter and parmesan, cook and eat.


Method:
Enough flour to harden them (assodarli). Make into the shape of ciambelle, and fry in oil.


Ingredients:
The sugar is described as 'tirato a perle'.

Method:
"Having removed the julep form the heat and cooled it throw the bitters over it and add rum


Ingredients:
Also: 'battiglia a piacere chiacchere n4."

Method:
put everything in the cuccuma da cioccolata, cook as if a milk sorbet, beat like chocolate and pour into suitable vases.


Method:
Mix the sugar with water to the right consistency, add the essence, and place in a suitable vase. Heat to the right temperatures, so that when you tip the vase the mixture is a little runny. Form pastilles with a knife.


Method:
Beat the meat separately, mix together, adding the seasoning. Mix well and 's' insacchi.'


Method:
Liquefy the first 3 ingredients in an iron cauldron, strain through cloth and scatter the finely powdered remaining ingredients which have been mixed earlier. Shake until the mixture is hard, forming maddaleoni.


Method:
Steep the rhubarb in the wine for 6 days, stirring. Add sugar, once clarified and 'diaccio' mix. It is like making elixir of China.


Method:
Put in a mortar of porphory with small doses of water, make a paste, then add the balsam and liqorice.


Method:
Toast the sugar and almonds, beat the 4 egg whites. Add flavouring as wished.


Recipe Name:
Frozen Almond paste (marzipan a diaccio)

Method:
Toast the almonds. Beat the eggs. Take the zest of the almonds, and scent of the cinnamon. Make little balls  and place in oil


Method:
Pass the sugar through a sieve onto the whites, add zest of lemon, or other. Make a fairly firm paste, with fiore di farina and make pallette.


Method:
Dissolve the resin in the liquids  and leave to infuse for 10 days. Then add the aloe, aristologia, and china. The balsam will be ready  after{….?}


Method:
Place in an earthenware vase, dissolve over a bagno maria, and filter.


Method:
Cook until cooked like a julep and it will be ready.


Method:
Boil the sugar and water until it makes a foam, which you remove. Place in a boccia with wide neck, or catinella and add whichever flowers you like. Seal with a cloth and leave for half an hour strain and it is ready. If you add a pinch of salt it will be much better and will cool better, but be careful because salt is not good. (Avventi che il sale sia poco bene.)

You can use limoni  instead of flowers. Squeeze in the water and add some peel.

Acqua cedrata add some citron peel.
Acqua di finocchio, cruch the fennel seed and add in the water as above.
Cinnamon water, boil the cinnamon a good while, until the flavour has taken.


Recipe Name:
Waters to drink in the summer (Continued): Granola and sorbets

Method:
Make as above, in previous recipe, but when you use snow instead of water, you need to add salt.

TO make the sorbet do as above, but you need more substance-whether sugar or lemon and some musk or amber, and adding the salt as above, but more. Stir well to break up the lumps of ice, so it is like an unguent.


Method:
Put the nutmeg and rose water in a double carafe. Boil a 'bagno maria' for an hour, remove from the heat and add the musk whilst still hot and place in the sun for a month. Then strain.


Method:
Use dry iris roots, or those of giuggiolo. Make and infusion in the rosewater for 24 hours. Place over a gentle heat to distil.


Method:
Eat the beans raw, or the roots of the chard.


Method:
River water: Clean the lemons; Boil together until reduced by a third and place in the sun for 8 days.


Method:
Put the lead in a vase, cover with oil and leave for 9 days. Then rub on the weapons.

You can also try powdered allum with vinegar, or the cat grease.


Recipe Name:
Breathlessness; tightness of the chest and wounds

Ingredients:
Not sure, but second ingredient seems to be 'greco tiepido' so perhaps greek wine??

Method:
The 'erba balsamina' is pulverised, enough to go on a giulio. Add to the 'greco tiepido' three or four times.
The leaf, like the whole plant, is good for all wounds, binding it on.


Method:
1) Pulverise the fox lung, enough to cover a giulio, add to the water or syrup.

2) Also, Put the bread into the vinegar, remove and add theriac, place on the stomach, holding for a night. Remove and place incense and rub well.

3) Dissolve the bolo armeno in the wine, take a little every morning.

4) Distil the consolida root and give to drink for many mornings 4 hours before dining.


Recipe Name:
Fresh Water drunk  causing damage. 'Con danno'

Method:
Drink the powdered pepper in malvasia or good wine.


Recipe Name:
Apoplexy, Paralisis and similar conditions

Method:
Purest termentina, not washed. Chop the sugar finely.
Put the termentina over the sugar, leave a while until the trementina has expanded-spread over it. If needed help with the tip of a knife, mixing it in, but not allowing it to become too glutinous and hard and dry, which is harder to swallow. Or you might exceed the dose.


Recipe Name:
How to remove a ring from a swollen finger


Recipe Name:
Attratto per scesa.  (Contorted/twisted whilst descending-of the penis)


Method:
Boil the mosto and water for a few days. Then boil again, adding the apples, until well cooked. Remove from heat, remove the apples, throw the wine in a barrel of the quetta, , seal and leave for 20 days. You can add mustard.


Method:
Leave the flowers for a day, distil in a boccia, pour the water over new roses, distil and repeat three times. The same can be done with all flowers.


Method:
Add the sulpher to the water. 
If you use the grain, wash in aqua vite or boil in wine until it evaporates.


Method:
Put the roses in a caraffe which holds a foglietta. Take a pinch of orange flowers, or others, add the clear water until it is three quarters full and leave in a cold place for 2 hours. Then decant into another vase, seal and keep until needed.


Method:
Put the leek seeds in the wine. Or dry the blackberries in the oven, pulverise and add to the wine.
Or, take the dough of yeast bread, and mix with powder of tartar of good wine. Then throw the dough into the vinegar jar and it will be extremely strong


Ingredients:
The rose should be red, starting to mature, with few seeds.

Method:
Put the more in a dish to dry out in a warm oven . Powder and when you want ot use them, add the powder to tepid wine and it will become vinegar immediately.


Method:
Boil the sambuco in the oil and place oil and leaves on the bruise. Also, rub with raw honey and tie on with linen.


Recipe Name:
For those who have been put under a spell (affatturati)

Method:
Boil the bryony and take 2 or 3 times on an empty stomach


Method:
Put the bran and pane inbieno (inbiero) in the wataer to ferment for 3-4 days near a fire. Strain,  add as much broth as there is bran and the egg yolk. For a fast day (giorno di magro) use chopped onion instead of brodo.


Method:
Mix the flour and milk, make a dough, place in the oven to dry. Crush and pass through a fine sieve.  To use, put a little powder in water and wash the face and hands with it.


Method:
Distil the wine and incense over low heat until half evaporated. 
Give half a walnut shell's amount to drink 

Also juice of the peach leaf:

Also, boil the basil in the vinegar and give a spoonful at a time.

Or lupin seeds, drunk.

Or crush the valerian root, mix with white wine or broth.


Method:
Give the patient distilled water with tips of sambuco and don't allow them to drink anything else.


Method:
Wash the mouth with decotion of these roots.


Recipe Name:
Softening the body-as in for helping to pass stools

Method:
Eat the roses on empty stomach.
Eat the grapes with meals.
Cool and eat the bietole.
Lavolo cotto and eaten.


Method:
Eat rice with meals.
Cook the vinegar in the meals.
Drink the fennel.
Eat a hard boiled egg in vinegar.
These will stop any great bowel movements.


Method:
Pulverise the seeds finely and give to  drink in good wine in the morning.

Clean the rasano and nettle, distil and give the water with sugar in the mornings.


Method:
cook the quinces in the oven, seive and add 15 oz of sugar for every 1 lb. Cook in a saucepan and add the musk diluted in rosewater


Method:
Dry the blood in the oven and throw over the meat. The same can be done with hare's blood.


Method:
Mix the powdered bark with vinegar and apply.

Or the lily root with pork grease.

Or powdered crystal with garlic.

Or some onion left for several evenings on the corn, tied on.


Method:
Burned cabbage mixed with egg.

Burned barley scattered on top.

Malva is cooked in oil

Laurel Leaves are mixed with the fat, strained over the fire, and crushed in a mortar to make an unguent. 

For water burns take the egg yolk and oil, salt and flour, mixed and apply the mixture.


Method:
Chop the roots of the watermelon , pulverise and scatter on top.

Cut a V shape in an ivy stem, place a small caraffe below to collect the sap which you use to bathe the wound. Be careful to seal it so dew and water cannot enter.

Place an egg over the fire, and use any moisture which comes out.

Rub honey on it often.


Method:
Boil the leaves in water and wash the hair in it.

Take unripe figs -in march-dry in the shade, put in a vase with oil, seal and leave in the sun for a month. Rub this on the comb.

Crush walnut shells which have fungus growing in them and mix with oil.

Also dry fig leaves mixed with chamomile oil.

Put the rina di levante in the lessia, or ranno, which you noramally use to wash hair and use.


Method:
Burn the cases, mix with honey and rub on a shaved head.


Method:
Cook the berrette in the lessia.

Boil felce in water and use this.

Mix the allume and calcina until it can take the weight of an egg. Then take 12.5 lbs of this and the oil and mix adding the beaten egg white and flour and vetriolo. Mix for 3 hours, leave for a day and it will be soap which you remove from the lessia and leave to dry for 2 days.


Method:
Mix the crushed linen seeds with  ? Burnt.

Burn walnut shells, use the powder mixed with wine.


Method:
Wash your hair in vinegar.

Rub myrtle oil on the hair.

Mix the leaves, cook in water and wash the hair with this.


Recipe Name:
Capelli venghino a caluj (Thinning hair?)

Method:
Leave the urine in a sealed vase for 15 days under some dung, remove and put back for 15 days. Boil.


Method:
Bury in flour.

Cook, strain and place in the sun and wind for an hour to dry , sprinkle with powder of juniper seeds and salt and put in a pan with white vinegar. Keep the vase in a cool place, turn the meat daily for as long as you like.

To eat, boil.

A copper nail will achieve the same thing.


Method:
mix the dung with vinegar. Hot, press on the painful area and keep the patient in bed for 2-3 days.

Boil the oil and wine together and apply to the wounded area.

For suspected internal wounds drink the suet as hot as possible.


Method:
Make the oil by taking a lemon, emptying half of it, remove the juice and make a hole in the middle. Fill with sugar and leave to drip, this will make the oil.


Recipe Name:
For a weak/faint heart and mournful mood (Coure e umori(?) flebi)


Method:
boil the felce and hellebores and wash.

Crush the sulpher and boil, wash with that water.

Boil the frassino bark, reduce and use.

Boil the verderame in vinegar and use.


Method:
Crush the gomma, melt in the oil, add the wax and ragia and mix well. Add cinabrio to finish.
Make a few pastelli, as the speziali do.

Crush the galbano, sandaraca and gomma, heat over a fire with the termentina, add cinabrio and form the cannelle.


Recipe Name:
How to keep food down-i.e. stop vomiting

Method:
Crush the mint in a mortar, take bread crumbs, squeeze and crush. Then take strong vinegar and soak them in it, to make a sauce. Take a piece of linen as big as the stomach and spread the mixture over it. Heat with a hot brick  and place some powdered cloves on top and apply to the stomach.


Recipe Name:
Cracked/chapped skin or ruptures of every kind (Crepature)

Method:
Mix over a low fire until cold and rub over the affected area

Or take new white wax and mix with the oil, olibano, gum and fat and use the unguent.


Ingredients:
Can substitute the aromatico with as much as a chestnut  (This is not clear)

Method:
Mix first three ingredients.

Make rolls from the second.


Method:
Dry the blood in the oven, throw over the meat.


Method:
Boil the rosemary and willow tips in the vinegar until reduced. Bathe the head .

Crush the sage, put on a hot brick and sprinkle with wine. Apply to the memory.

Crush the sempre viva between bricks and place on the temples.

Beat the egg with rosewater and apply to the temples with a cloth.


Method:
Chop the Turnips finely, with any leaves and boil in a medium sized cauldron just covered with water, until they disintegrate. Then strain.
The patient should wash the painful area with this, as hot as possible.

Or take the eggs, make an omlette with the oil and apply to the joints as hot as possible, tie on with a linen cloth


Method:
Boil the herbs (first 4)-equal quantitites-in the oil and reduce by half.

Or boil the oils, wine and assenzio.


Method:
Take the hard divding parts within the walnut and crush with cinnamon and give to drink in wine or broth, just as much as would cover a giulio.

Or pulverise the hare dung and give in broth. 

Or pulverise the cuttle fish and give in tepid wine.


Method:
Put the flowers in a fresh egg and drink


Recipe Name:
Antidote for someone who has eaten poisonous mushrooms

Method:
1: Take enough filigine to cover a 1 giulio coin with wine. This is make the person vomit
or

2 Drink the white of the excrement with vinegar
or
3 Eat the ruta.
or
4 Eat much raw garlic.


Method:
Pulverise the nest and mix with the rosewater and rub on the discharge (ungi la flussione) in the evening before sleeping


Method:
Make a plaster with the frumento and milk place on a small piece of black taffetta, place on the fontanelle, between the head and neck and leave until it falls off.


Comments:
Based on doctrine of sympathies: the hot oil, on the 'fuoco volatico'.

Method:
Wash and grate and crush the romice. Take a little old pork, salt and vinegar and make an unguent. Rub the rash. This is also good for rogna.

Take a handful of wheat, put on an anvil, take a hot iron, place it on the wheat until a black  oil emerges. Use this to rub on the rash (il fuoco) which will disappear without trace


Recipe Name:
How to stop bleeding (Flusso di sangue )

Method:
Dry the sections of the fruit in the shade, pulverise, put a small amount in a fresh egg and wine and eat.

Take the whole pine (cone?), 'e fanne suffumigio, 'qual ricervi nel sefo' (?) e questo per tre volte.

Dry the blood in the shade, pulverise and give in wine or egg.

Pulverise the plantain seeds, mix with egg, cook like an omlette 'sopra tegola, 'heat hot, often.

Use the roots if no seeds. Also cook with vinegar, or wine is even better.


Method:
Hard boil the egg in vinegar.

Crush the panico and drink in wine

Boil the rice in vinegar. Give 2 spoonfuls in the morning for three days.


Method:
Heat the oil and use.

Pulverise the scabious with agrimony and put on the wound. IT will heal in 3 hours. Try it out on an animal first.

Dry the hyssop, pulverise. Put on the wound-but use nothing else before this.

The liquid inside the elm will  heal intestinal ruptures in children, applied with rags bathed and tightly bound.

The same liquid, sealed in a vase with salt for 25 days under a dung heap will purify, the residue will fall to the bottom. Then put in a clean vase to heal wounds quickly. A marvel applied with thread. 

Can also be used to clean the face and remove marks.


Method:
Burn the vine leaves and use the powder.

Pulverise the balsamina. Apply and Bandage.

Place the web on the wound 

Pulverise the cyprus nut with the leaves.


Method:
Dry the aneto, crush and give 2.5  drms in  wine.

Powder the flowers. give a spoonful in good white wine


Method:
Boil the excrement in water, strain and wash the feet in it tepid.


Recipe Name:
Fever which comes with Arte
(how to bring on a fever)


Method:
Crush everything, mix in vinegar, place in a sealed, glazed, fire proof pignatta  with a lid and put in a hot oven/furnace for more than 12 hours.


Method:
Distil the scolopendria and drink 6 oz every morning, hot. Cover yourself well so you sweat. 

Wash and crush the parts of the orange plant in a mortar, pour into a glass and give this to the patient. Repeat over three days.


Method:
Give the ipericon in wine or broth.

Likewise the pilatro

Crush the garlic, saffron and filigine. Mix with the vinegar to an unguent.


Method:
Remove the egg white . Put 4-5 drops of the milk of a woman who is breast feeding a boy. Give this before the fever rises.


Method:
Boil the pimpinella in wine, give to drink.

Same with verbena.

Hang the root of the virga pastoris around the neck.

Eat 3 oz of the honey before the fever comes.


Ingredients:
From a dog which eats bones, best if it is whitish in colour.

Method:
Pulverise and give 3 denari to the patient or a spoonful in such a way that the patient doesn’t realise, or see or know.


Method:
Dissolve the vetriolo in water with honey and drink.

Dry the granelli in the shade. Give in powdered form on an empty stomach, enough to cover a giulio.


Recipe Name:
To prevent children from suffering from toothache

Method:
Take the blood from an old cockerel-cutting the crest-and bathe that blood on the child's gums.


Method:
Soak the straw in water for 24 hours and drink


Method:
Take the water half an hour before eating. Repeat next day if it doesn't work.


Recipe Name:
Gout, corns and cloudl eyes. (Panni negli occhi)

Method:
Put the talc in the silver, melted with a molletta until it calcifies, then put in a sealed glass boccia with excellent acqua vite. Distil. First white acqua vite will come out, increasing the flame a golden oil will appear which will remove the pain of gout immediately and corns, and clouds in the eyes.

Crush the nettle with vinegar, place over the pain and swelling.

Extract the juice from the leeks, boil with the gall and altea until reduced by  half, and use often.

Boil the veal hoof, to a dense liquid, and rub hot on the painful area. Use often.

Use peach nut oil on the swelling.

Take 3/4 of acqua vite, passed three times, 2 parts of the flowers and tips of rosemary , put in a barrel, seal for 50 hours, then distil per lambicco.


Comments:
'Provato' for first one:
It will work miracles for the third. These comments often appear, in fact.

Method:
Spread the cerussa over the leather and apply.

Take the oil, litharge and wax, make an unguent and spread on linen apply morning and evening.

Soak the 10 day old yeast in rosewater for a night, add the termentina, make an unguent. It will work miracles


Recipe Name:
Gocciola, Apoplexy, Paralysis and other similar afflictions of the brain

Method:
Spread the turpentine over the chopped sugar. Wait a little until it spreads, helping with a knife or spatula, turning. Add 'sufistenza', when taken, remove the remaining sugar which hasn't become glutinous so it doesn't get too hard and dry.


Method:
Crush the trefoil and apply.

Apply garlic skin/peel

Burn the rags and dip in oil and apply.


Implements:
thread of the kind used by speziali to strangle vipers,

Method:
Add the vinegar to the rosewater and honey, mix well, place in a jar over a low flame and when hot, drink a little.

Take thread of the kind used by speziali to strangle vipers, tie it to the throat and it will work wonders.


Method:
Boil in the wine until reduced by a third.


Method:
Open the fig, put in salt and rub over the gums before going to bed.

Crush the rue with salt and honey and rub on the gums.


Method:
Halve the egg, remove the yolk, put the myrrh in its place, put the yolk back in and tie with a thread in the cellar and keep the oil which drips out.


Method:
Boil the pulverised seeds in broth and tie in a piece of linen.


Method:
cook the herbs, nettle with semola and give to the chickens.


Recipe Name:
For those who suffer from Crab (male del granchio) (Stich, colic pain, or cancer)


Recipe Name:
How to conserve grain or biade for a long time

Method:
When the grain has been threshed, place on a metal sheet where the sun beats. Then boil much water and thow over it so it burns. Leave ot dry, replace in the granary. This cannot be used as seed


Recipe Name:
How to tell whether a patient is about to die

Ingredients:
The milk must be from a woman who has given birth to a girl

Method:
Rub the forehead with bread and give to a dog. If it will not eat it, it means the person will die.

Put woman's milk in the patient's urine. IF it sinks he/she will heal, if it floats, they will die.


Method:
Mix the herb with the fat and beaten egg. Cook like an omlette and give to eat for 8-10 days. This is also good for those with Tuberculosis (I tisici)


Method:
Extract the juice and give three fingers to drink for three mornings on alternate days. This is will make the lose a lot of water.

The patient drinks their own urine.

A lessia made of white wine and juniper wood should be drunk.

Take a little rhubarb often.

Make a decotion of the ebuli or wild sambuco leaves in wine and drink.

Take 4 oz of distilled water of sambuco roots for 30 days, with 2 oz the water of the ebuli.


Recipe Name:
The virtues of the herb known as Ipericon or pilatro or perforata. (St. Johns' wort)


Recipe Name:
How to prevent someone from getting drunk


Method:
Boil the tegolirsia in wine until reduced by a third and drink morning and evening.

Drink sugar dissolved in warm water.

Boil the bran in water and drink warm with much sugar.


Method:
Chop the nutmeg and rub.

Rub the cabbage seed.

Make a decotion of lupins and wash oneself.

Rub the bean flour over.

Apply the blood hot.

Wash with lemon juice, in which you have dissolved the sal' ammonicao.


Method:
Boil the fennel, give to drink morning and evening.

Burn the cow ….?, give the powder to drink. 3 drms at a time to the woman in red wine.


Method:
Take a spoon of ruta juice and add the blood. Give to the child as soon as it is born when it takes its milk and it will not suffer from this ailment.


Recipe Name:
How to deviate the path of milk (a sviarlo)

Method:
Use plantain juice and bath the nipples with it and the milk will leave. It is a good thing.


Method:
Rub the duck fat on the lips.

Make a bowl from the turnip and put in the butter and wax. Cook it over a low flame, then remove the unguent and use also on the hands.


Method:
Cook the lettuce in barley water. Drink this.

Cook the fennel seeds/grains in barley water and drink.

Eat the broth.


Method:
Make a plaster and place on the breasts which will make it (what?)mature. This also works for nerves.


Method:
Crush the liatharge with vinegar, mix. Distil through cloth (per pezza). Then pulverise the sal gemma and mix with the water. Then mix both waters and they will look like milk. Rub the area where there are warts or where it burns.


Method:
Boil them and use as unguent to rub on lips at night.


Recipe Name:
How to make a lovely dye for wood in several colours


Method:
Take the strummia, produced by mutton when cooked. Rub this on the children's lattime and it will heal.


Recipe Name:
How to dispel lusts ( Discacciare Lussuria)


Ingredients:
Crispigno= presumably the same herb. Colour not specified.

Method:
Mix the herb with the rosewater and tutia preparata


Method:
Mix and rub on the head and they will die.


Recipe Name:
How to make Lettuce, beans, and watermelons grow in 24 hours


Recipe Name:
How to conserve pomegranates all year round


Recipe Name:
How to make moscardini (Small pills kept in the mouth to freshen the breath)

Method:
Pulverise the sugarloaf, mix with the flour.
Put the gum to infuse , then beat everything, using a scented water.

Dissolve the musk in water and sprinkle over the pastry. When it is made, make it as if it were lasagne, cutting in that manner.


Recipe Name:
Mare, che non travagli. (To prevent one going into labour whilst at sea??)***


Method:
Make a hole in the shell, blow out the white, fill the shell with the oil and put over a flame until it boils.


Method:
Any kind of nettle placed on with salt
Or ashes of semenza applied with vinegar.
Make a plaister with the plantain


Recipe Name:
How to recognise the bite of a rabid dog

Method:
Dunk the bread in the blood which comes from the wound and give to the dogs. They will not eat, or even smell it (if the dog is rabid). However, one cannot be entirely sure about this.


Ingredients:
The wool must be dirty or 'the yolk of raw wool'

Method:
Pick the kind of malva with red flowers, with many leaves, mix with the oak fungus and drink in broth.

Take the turpentine, oil salt and wool and rub over the pain.

Mix the linen, incense, saffron and drink in a fresh egg three times a day.

Take wild poppies which grow amongst the wheat, take the red petals and distil and give half a glass to the patient and this will burst the abscess.

Take the long marrow, known as August trombones, and slice finely. Take an equal quantity of good oil, place in a new glazed pignatta. Boil slowly until the marrow is well cooked and flavoured, Remove the pan from the heat, take some burning iron coins and extinguish in the the pan, repeat 18 times, or 9 times with 2 piastri, . Take a little of the oil in an egg shell, heat and rub the area of the puntura, place a handful of hot straw stubble over it-as hot as the patient can bear-and a dirty linen table cloth over this folded in four, also hot. Bandage so the oil cannot escape. And since the pain sometimes moves from one rib to another , pursue the pain with the rules above. If the patient doesn't begin to spit up after 5 hours, repeat the actions, rarely.


Method:
Boil everything in the wine until reduced by a third, strain, drink a glass for three mornings to reduce the pain.

For a hard spleen, rub bitter almond oil or drink the conserve of broom flowers.

For a blocked spleen rub with the bitter almond oil or laurel oil, or eat rosemary with bread, or lupin flowers with food.

To reduce the spleen take capers in wine for 40 days, or its roots in the same way.

Nutmeg works well too, and the seed of zuchetta, or decotions of lupin flowers.


Method:
Pulverised warm nutmeg taken with the wine.

Seeds of pastinaca in hot wine taken two hours before a meal.

Dry the nutmeg flowers, pulverise and give in the morning on an empty stomach, enough to go over a coin.

Mix the walnut flowers with honey, taking an ounce at a time.
This is also useful for bringing on menstruation and for painful bowel movements.


Method:
Add sugar to the distilled water.
Take in the morning on an empty stomach

After the woman has had her menses, take the white of dove excrement and give in broth in the morning on an empty stomach-as much as will cover a giulio.


Recipe Name:
Mal de pondis with and without blood. Tried out.

Method:
Pierce the egg, remove the white and fill with oil, heat over a flame until it starts boiling, give to drink to the patient .

Pulverise the dry herbs and give to drink in the wine. Four treatments will heal the patient.


Method:
Put the grain in a copper crucible, cover with the glazed earth and seal well. Keep over a low flame and remove the pan every three hours. You will find a liquid which you use.

Take a fresh egg, place over the fire and the humidity which will come out should be applied to the margini.


Recipe Name:
How to re-start a woman's menstrual periods

Method:
Make 'lattuario' (an electuary?) and take in the morning.

Just before the time when the menses normally would start, take yeast dissolved in good tepid wine, for three mornings.

Boil the leaves of a laurel plant in wine or water and drink with nutmeg and saffron, which will do the trick.

Make water of pulegio flowers, conserve and keep. Drink on an empty stomach.

Put the celidonia under the soles of the feet, so it touches the flesh for four mornings, when the menses are due.

Take the matricaria, savina, saffron olibano and dried blood. Pulverise and Mix . Take 0.5 drm in broth or wine on an empty stomach .HOWEVER, this must not be used by pregnant women as it will make them miscarry.


Ingredients:
verbena picked in May.

The acorn cups work even better:
The hard shell of the acorn, or of chestnuts works even better

Method:
Dry the verbena in the shade, pulverise and give with a little egg for 6 mornings.

Take any 'ghiande' and make into flour mix with plantain juice


Ingredients:
Use Dung beetles.

The sambuco flowers must be picked in May.

Method:
Mix celidonia oil and vinegar and rub the haemorrhoids in the morning and evening.

Cover the beetles with oil and boil until they turn to a paste and use. It is rare.

Take the woodlice, put in a casserole with oil and fry until they turn into a paste, which you rub on.

Pick the flowers and leave in a well sealed caraffe in the sun for a month. They make an excellent oil for this which also works for burns.


Method:
Dissolve the honey comb in the lantern oil. Use ivy leaves over it in the summer and 'fila di panni d'uomo' (si this thread from a man's clothes?) in the winter.


Method:
Cut open a hot bread and remove the must, ten times.

Take the grain, put in a little bag and hang over the barrel


Method:
Crush the litharge finely, mix with the vinegar and distill per pezza.Take the sal gemma and water and mix. Then mix both waters, until they are like milk and use that to bathe where needed.

Or mix lemon juice and sal'armoniac bathe with that.

Or mix lupin flour and goat gall.


Method:
Pulverise the broom and scopa Regia, pass through a seive and give in tepid wine, enough to cover a quattrino.

Dry the flowers and cook in wine, then drink.


Method:
Dry the thistles, remove any worms and put in a jar. Dry them, pulverise and take as much as would cover a giulio.


Method:
Make a must from the laurel, boil slowly for 1.5 hours and for 10 flasks of mosto put 6 oz of spices, and crush. Then boil for another hour and add a flask of strong white vinegar, boil another hour, until it is reduced by two thirds.

If you want it sweeter, add the sugar, if not, add more vinegar.


Ingredients:
Porco maschio rosso di montagna.
Only use the petals, it will be better.

Method:
Wash the pork 9 times in fresh water, then mix with half the orange flowers and crush. Leave for a week and then quickly boil it and strain. Add another 2 lbs of orange flowers and crush. Leave another week, boil and strain as before. Then add the acqua lansa and boil until it evaporates and keep in a glass jar.
This way of manipulating the manteca is very impractical. The best way to do it, take 2 lbs of red mountain male pork fat and the orange fowers, crush for 4 hours. Keep for 24 hours in a well sealed vase, then heat in a bagno maria, squeeze in a piece of linen, leave to cool and separate the damp fat. Repeat three times. Then put in a basin and sitr with a wooden sppon. Then put in a well sealed vase and the longer it stands the better it will be.


Ingredients:
Best is The saltwater from a barrel of anchovies.
Otherwise, add salt to water


Method:
Make a flour from the linen seeds:
Mix everything boil over low flame, mix well so it doesn't burn. When it becomes a plaster, place on the boils/affected area.


Recipe Name:
A Medicine which need not be taken by mouth

Method:
Extract the oil with a press, without water and rub around the umbelical 'che movera'.


Method:
Boil the quinces and apples in the must, then remove and seive. Add mustard in powder, orange peel and some cinnamon.


Method:
Either put crushed malva or crushed flies in mud on the sting


Method:
Take equal quantities of the gentian and rue, pulverise and drink


Method:
Make a fine powder with the oregano, mix with the vinegar and sprinkle over the house.


Method:
Mix the nettle juice with oil and salt and rub on.

Put the butter and wax  in a grater, held like a bowl over a low flame, cook until it becomes an unguent and use. Throw away the grater.


Method:
boil the ivy leaves and roots and use the water.

Boil the nettle in vinegar or wine, washing with it in the evening and soap in the morning.

Make a hole in the lemon, add the dragante. Place over hot ashes and leave to cook, then peel and use as an unguent when you go to bed, after washing your hands.

Mix the lupin flour and mustard powder with flour from the almonds.


Method:
Drink the malva juice for 15 days:

Or a glass of the thislte water for 12 days.

In spring or autumn: Take a spoonful of julep with 3 drops of the sulpher or vitriol spirit in it in the morning on an empty stomach. This remedy is very heavy for all ailments of the liver.


Method:
Take the savine, and powder the eggshells, from which chicks have recently hatched. Boil in white wine and drink.

Dry the finocchiella in the shade, make an infusion in wine.


Recipe Name:
How to make someone on the verge of death speak


Recipe Name:
Someone on the verge of death through fever or a bite


Method:
Take the juice of the sambuco, put in a caraffe, cover with pasta di formento and cook with bread. When cooked take the liquid and rub once a day for 10 days.

Boil the laurel parts in water and use the oil which is produced on top hot.

Fill a double caraffe with flowers of ramerino, seal, put under a lid (concio?) for a month until it becomes a liquor. Pass through cloth and put in a sealed bottle under gravel/sand up to the neck, where the sun beats , for a month. Then keep.


Method:
Extract the juice from the scaboius, heat until tepid, wash, and sprinkle over the wound. Then apply cotton dipped in the same juice. Repeat this morning and evening for several days and it will heal.

Also, mix the biacca, litarhe and oil and wax to make an unguent


Recipe Name:
How to encourage urination when someone cannot pass urine

Method:
All these are separate remedies: 
The rue should be wild.
The bettonica should have the juice extracted
Take the white part of the excrement, enough to  cover a giulio and dissolve in wine.
Pulverise the egg shell.


Method:
Place everything in a glass caraffe, hermetically sealed, that is, with calcina and egg white and place in the sun for three months.


Method:
Place one layer of almonds which have been cleaned with a knife, and one of flowers. Repeat ten times at least, then crush and squeeze in a mangle.


Method:
Place ingredients in a new glazed pignatta and boil over a low flame, until the oil is incorporated with the wine and has reduced by half. Then add a little of the pilatro flower,and leave to boil. Leave to cool and place in little flasks, adding some more pilatro. Leave in the sun for a while, then strain until clear.


Method:
Mix the wheat and milk to make a plaster. Smear on small circles of taffetta and attach  "alla fontanella della collottola" head and neck. Leave until it drops off.


Method:
boil the egg, separate the white and yolk, take the white and place in a cloth and squeeze so as to extract the water. Mix this with equal quantitites of the prune or rosewater, adding a little tutia and use.

Or take grape pips , crush and distil. Use that water for bathing the eyes.


Method:
Cook the fresh egg under ashes until hard. Cut in half, remove the yolk, take a twig of dried olive, remove the bark and shave the white part. Fill the egg white with this and place it hot over the eye, with a piece of linen underneath. In the morning you will find the cloth full of blood. Continue until healed.


Method:
Boil everything (except the urine) until reduced by a third. 

Heat your own urine with a little sugar in.


Method:
Take tutia preparata, pulverise finely, mix and boil in a pan, until reduced by a third. Then put in a glass ampule, seal it well.


Method:
Boil the beard in wine, strain and drink.

OR burn the kernels with the silk and drink


Method:
Put the water in a cauldron over the fire, add the falaria or malva, and boil till reduced by a third. Strain and squeeze in a press and mix, heat again adding the oil little by little ,stirring all the time, not letting it go off the boil. Keep stirring a while after you have added the oil, then remove from the fire and it is ready.
To make it even better you can add 3 lbs of honey per barrel whilst stirring.


Method:
Take as much of the steel shavings as you wish, put in a glazed earthenware pan and mix with the lemon. Leave for three days in the hot sun until it dries and becomes friable. Turn into a fine powder. 
Then take 1 dram of it and add the spices. Make sachets of this and leave to infuse in the wine for 24 hours.Drink this wine.
Each sachet can be used three times.

You can make it another way, by cutting the lemon on top, removing the interior part, filling the cavity with white sugar, leaving the sachet inside until the sugar dissolves and use.


Method:
Extract the juice from the lettuce, take the powdered acorn cup, mix with wine, and give in the evening before sleeping.

Also: boil the pomegranate skins in water and drink. Dry the skins and pulverise and give in broth or wine.


Method:
Chop the felce and boil in wine. Strain and give as a drink.

Extract juice from the rosemary and give to drink twice daily, 1 oz at a time in 'vino generoso.'

Eat the bettonica flowers as if they were salad, and as tisana.(?)

You can also pulverise the leaves and drink in wine.


Method:
Put the quicklime in the flask, pour over the oil and it will shine clearly without creating fungus or moccolaia.


Ingredients:
The acqua vite must have been 'cooked' four times.

Method:
Just add the drops of your favourite essence to the acqua vite, stir and sprinkle throughout the room.


Method:
Crush the worms, eggs and rue together. Boil first in dung, then add the almond oil and cook over the fire.


Putting saffron in helps too.


Method:
mix the seeds with the wax. Set alight and ensure that the smoke goes in the ears and you will see the worms fall out.


Recipe Name:
How to extract oil or juice easily from anything

Method:
Take whichever herb, wood, root you like. Grate and crush finely. Place in a pot/jar  with a cover, or a dish, which has a hole in the middle and put a small receptacle under the bowl. Bury everything under the ground 'come sai, so everything comes out, the oil and juice.


Method:
pulverise, mix everything with the linen seed oil. Place it over marble in a damp place, so it turns into a liquid, which you distil over a low flame.


Method:
Boil the honey and oil in a cauldron, stirring with a stick. When well mixed taste. If unpleasant, add more honey. If too sweet, add more oil and use.


Recipe Name:
How to prevent someone from urinating at all

Method:
Dry the frogs in the sun, pulverise and give to eat in soup, or elsewhere.


Method:
Take powdered gold litharge, add a drop of water to make a lotion which you put under the arms and leave to dry.


Method:
Take good, old dry bones, not putrified and pulverised, wash well until the water is clear. Then make a base with acqua di cascio and reform, making whatever you wish. Once made, freeze (congela) like good bones and leave in the sun, they will be bones as before.


Method:
These are several separate remedies.

Apply the verderame.

Macerate the willow ashes in vinegar.

Mix the calcina viva and soap chop the onion, add salt and use.

Pierce the wart and apply juice of celidonia or ink.


Method:
pulverise the pepper, annoint with salvia.

Boil the rue and assentio in lupin broth.


Recipe Name:
Powdered peaches  Marescialla style (alla Marescialla)

Method:
Crush all the ingredients and pass through a seive. Mix with startch (amido) and beneplacito which has bene well purged and washed in mortella water and acqua lansa. You can make the powder even better by adding amber, zibetto and musk or orange flowers or jasmine flowers


Method:
Make the first three scents damp in a bronze mortar using acqua rosa (or di mortella or from Tripoli) and when dissolved mix with the amido which has been washed several times in acqua arrente and mix with the scents and stir very well in the mortar. Then dry in the sun, spread out in the shade for 15 days covered with flowers, changing them every 10 hours.


Method:
Crush all ingredients finely in a mortar, pass through a sieve. Wash in rosewater several times and dry in the shade. Crush again, sieve again, and keep in a glass or lead jar.


Method:
1 Take half a glass of the sage water at a time. Or powder of sage passed through a sieve with the greek wine, or similar.

2 Carry the celandine root so that it touches your skin, to protect yourself.

3 Eat the sambuca leaves/tips with vinegar in salad, as much as you want, in whatever way you wish, so it tastes pleasant, and eat nothing else for that meal.

4 In times of plague eat meat and fish acconcie, (pickled or preserved) preserved in  gelatine- and everything which can be eated in this way. Especially as regards vinegar and saffron which are extremely useful in these times.

5 Make a distilled water from the rue and take every morning.

6 Take as much walnut, fig, rue and garlic as needed.  Crush and preserve in a small box and take a quantity the size of a walnut every morning. 

7Crush the seville orange peel and pimpinella together pulverise and take in the morning in broth or wine on an empty stomach.

8 Gather the juniper berries on the 22nd August and 22nd september and put in an infusion with greek wine or acqua vite. Leave  for 40 hours, remove and dry in the sun and keep.
Take 5 or 6 every morning, chewing them.

9 take ingredients from 12-16, distil together and use this oil to rub around the heart and pulses every 24 hours.


Method:
Dry the peels, powder take the sulpher and salt and mix.


Method:
Dip the skin of the nacchera in the Acqua della Regina, place in the ear.


Recipe Name:
How to cast all kinds of medals in Chalk, wax or sulpher , as desired


Recipe Name:
A new and easy way to distil whatever kind of herb or flower

Method:
Take a clean basin, over which you put a cloth sieve which covers it, tying it firmly around so it is pulled tightly. Over the cloth put the herbs or flowers to distil, piling as many as you can on. Over these flowers put a piece of blue paper (foglio turchino) as big as the mouth of the basin and over the paper put as much rena vagliata as you can, two fingers high, and put a frying pan/crucible over this with a little fire, which make the distilation into the basin


Recipe Name:
How to write a letter which will disappear in a short space of time


Recipe Name:
How to get all the fleas you have in a room, a secret taken from a little old printed book. (Picolo libretto antico stampato)

Method:
Smear turpentine on one side of a piece of paper and leave in the middle of the room overnight.


Recipe Name:
How to make a glass stick to someone's lips, which cannot be removed unless you wish it.


Method:
Take the ear of a black dog and hold in your right hand and go where ever you wish, the dogs will not bark


Method:
Make a potion (sugo) mixing the radish, leek and powder of ground nespole stones


Method:
Take a live eel, put on the spit and roast. Use the fat which comes out. Take the garlic, roasted in the ashes and dip a clove at a time in the fat, then put in the ears, hot, keeping the ear uppermost for the length of a credo and you will see the 'cattivo umore' come out of the ear and the person will be healed


Recipe Name:
How to cure Scolatura (Could be like scolatione=gonorrhea)

Method:
Crush the sandali, put in the fresh water


Recipe Name:
Cloudy vision. How to recuperate perfectly from this.

Method:
Farai mangiare a un figliuolo del finocchio dolce ogni mattina, e farai dopo leccare al detto figliuolo l'occio alla persona inferma, e subito sanera.

Give a child fennel to eat each morning, afterwards make the child lick the eye of the patient, who will immedietly heal


Method:
mix and rub over the lice which will die immedieatly


Recipe Name:
How to use a pistol or loaded schioppo carichi a palla to break with ease a thread which has been tied and pulled between two trees


Recipe Name:
How to shoot birds with an arquebus and still have them alive and well after the shot.


Recipe Name:
Medicament for burns from iron, powder or other things

Method:
Boil the lard over a fire, remove the foam, remove and leave for 3-4 days in clear weather, then return to the fire, strain afterwards over fresh water, rinsing until the water runs clear  and the fat wit white. Rub this on the burn and it will heal leaving no sign


Recipe Name:
How to make a fire which will not go out unless you intend it to


Recipe Name:
How to make a fire which will burn stones and iron


Recipe Name:
Burning water (ardente ) which you can burn on the hand without hurting yourself


Recipe Name:
How to make a flame which burns very high and burns


Recipe Name:
How to make gunpowder for fireworks to use to make luminous globes and other


Recipe Name:
How to make a sort of fireball which will burn under water


Recipe Name:
Two kinds of ball which will burn and shine in water


Method:
Take very strong vinegar, add enough pepper, crushed a little and make an infusion, well sealed for a while. Then heat and boil. When it has cooled so you can bear the heat, bathe the hair and scalp without letting them dry and you will remove all the dirt.


Recipe Name:
How to make a lovely black for painting in water colours or writing


Recipe Name:
How to make a room appear to be full of snakes


Recipe Name:
Recipe for making a gunpowder which will explode the moment it comes into contact with the air, which is real and has been tried out by me, which cost me 20 paoli to make

Method:
Take the Ugna dell'Alce and apply to the painful tooth for the length of an Ave Maria.


Method:
Take juice from the nettle, dip a little piece of cloth in it and then go to the fireplace and cover with ash. Put this in the nostril.


Method:
Fill a lantern with oil, light it and once it has burnt half of the oil, take a nail and place it in a fire,. Once hot, extinguish it in the oil and repeat.


Method:
Take the gall of a male pig, with the fat (sugna) which should not be salted and mix to make an unguent.


Method:
Collect the acorns once fallen from the tree, making sure they are dry. Dry in the shade, pulverise.
For those whose bowel movements are unruly (per chi non avesse il corpo ubbidiente) take the damask roses, put in a pap to boil, morning and evening


Method:
If on occasion you suspect that you have "conceputo la pena per qualche scarmana," o altro, drink your own urine.


Recipe Name:
How to tell whether a sick person will get better or die

Method:
Take the herb artemisia, put under the patient's head so it touches the head. If he is going to heal he will fall asleep when the herb heats up. If he is going to die, he will not sleep as long as the herb is under his pillow.


Method:
Take the gall, rub on the temples once a month


Method:
Boil the lupins with the assentio. When cooked, drain the water. Having swept the floor in the room with fleas, srpinkle with the water and the fleas will die


Recipe Name:
How to keep snakes at a distance so they won't harm you, and how to call them so they will come to be hit when you want.

Ingredients:
The snake must be from Isola di San Paolo

Method:
Take the tongue and show it to the snakes, who will become obedient to you.


Recipe Name:
How to tell whether a pregnant woman will give birth to a boy or a girl

Method:
Take a hat from the woman's head when she is at least two months pregnant and put in a vase of white glazed earth (terra bianca vetriata) full of water. Make sure the hat is under water for at least one hour, after that, if it floats it will be a male, and if it sinks it will be a female


Recipe Name:
Excellent remedy against plague which is the same used by some thieves during the plague of Marseilles in order to make a fortune

Method:
Take the strongest white vinegar you have, put in a glass flask and then add the herbs and leave to infuse for 8 days under hot ash, or in the hot sun. Then filter and squeeze the herbs. 
Then add the camphor, close well and leave.


Recipe Name:
Recipe for oil for the wounds and blows usually made in the Scarlatti home, and which has become very scarce given the wonderful trials which have been seen. (Solito farsi dalla nostra Casa Scarlatti, e che si e reso molto raro per le belle riprove, che se ne sono vedute.

Method:
Take a new pan which takes 12/5 flasks, and put a flask of generous red wine, marking where it comes to on a stick placed in the wine, so as to work out how far to reduce it.
Then add the oil, and the salt and put the pan on the fire, boiling it slowly and continuously until reduced to the makr made on the stick. When it has boiled for about 10 hours put in the pan. Then add the fresh flowers (added in margin: which you will do 15 days before the feast of Saint John the Baptist more or less). Then leave to cool (and strain). Having put the oil in the glass jar (well-sealed with cork) place in the sun to perfect for 15 or 20 days aprox. And it will be done.


Recipe Name:
How to put silver plate on brass and copper  "a fusco", so long as it has no tin/soldering, because tin is contrary to its functioning. This is a particular secret which cost me 4 ruspi to learn


Recipe Name:
How to put silver plating on copper and tin using a bath, so long as there is no tin, as before. This is also a  'segreto particolare' which cost me 12 Zecchi:


Recipe Name:
Recipe for chest pain which has been tried and succeeded amazingly

Method:
boil the wine, oil and water in a new pan until reduced by one third.


Recipe Name:
How to remove ink stains from wool or silk


Recipe Name:
How to revive the colour in cloth which has faded


Recipe Name:
A noble paint which has more colour than coral


Recipe Name:
For gold letters, this is taken from the Libreria di San Lorenzo. (Vedi D. Alessio Piamontese a Carte 286)


Recipe Name:
Another recipe for gold letters as earlier


Recipe Name:
Thick paint to use on the palette and to use for mixing with oil colours


Recipe Name:
For a woman who is having difficulty during childbirth

Method:
Give her another woman's milk to drink in oil and she will give birth immediately before the baby dies


Method:
Take a normal marrow/zuccha and fry in oil, as if to eat. Then take the oil and run it over a heated piece of iron two or three times, then rub the painful area with that.


Recipe Name:
How to make fire appear from a glass filled with water


Recipe Name:
How to ensure that one does not suffer the cold

Method:
Gather the nettles before dawn, then boil in the oil.


Method:
Put the tooth on the person's head and s/he will calm down.


Method:
Place the heart under the sleeper's head and see the effect


Method:
pulverise the snail with its shell
Crush the worms.
Crush the cypress


Recipe Name:
Remedy for St. Anthony's fire taught to me by Sig. Ferdinando Montalvi experimented on himself and on others

Method:
Mix the camphor with the waters, heat to tepid, and bathe and shower 'la parte'. Dip a piece of linen and tie it around the bad area, taking care not to chill down, when it does, bathe it again , so not too hot nor too cold.


Recipe Name:
Remedy for toothache when they are rotton singly (guasti unicamente)

Method:
Take a pinch of rue and rosemary, put in a new pan with the wine and boil until reduced by  half. Add a good measure of salt. (una buona presa di tabacco) Hold it in your mouth as hot as you can bear, on the side of the rotton tooth, then spit out and repeat until used. Do not keep because it will go bad. Since this will also kill worms, you will not suffer any more pain from this tooth.


Recipe Name:
How to predict what will happen in the coming year


Recipe Name:
How to remove scabies (le rogne scabiose)

Method:
Pulverise the orpimento, mix and put on the scabs


Recipe Name:
Rosemary balsam, which has the same virtues as Arabian Balsam

Method:
Take the rosemary flowers, put in a large cuccuma (a gourd? ) sealed with a canvas cork, covered with leather, so the smell cannot escape. Put this in a heap of hot dung, for a month after which the flowers will have turned to water. Strain the liquid into another small double cuccuma squeezing the flowers and bury in a heap of oats, sealed as the first time and left in the sun in clear weather. Covered in oats to the nexk and leave for another month. The balsam will be made and if you put a drop in water it will sink like Arabian balsam.


Method:
powder the sulpher, boil  in water and bathe. Put in a corner near the bed and they will go and die there


Method:
Boil the mercorella in the vinegar and sambuco leaves. Apply to the breasts.


Recipe Name:
The rule for knowing whether a woman will have a boy or a girl, taken from a little manuscript book (la quale deve servire per un giocolino curioso e non per darvi fede, perche de futuris)


Recipe Name:
So that ants will not carry away the grain


Recipe Name:
Ricetta particolare per fare una perfetta ceralacca *(see below) (Recipe for a perfect sealing wax)


Recipe Name:
A rare secret for those who suffer from gall/bladder  stones (mal di pietra)

Method:
Take the ostrich egg, crush in a bronze mortar into a fine powder, passing trhough a silk sieve.


Recipe Name:
A crimson which will not fade. Recipe from a miniaturist


Recipe Name:
Yellow lacquer for painting, from broom flowers, by Father Antonio Neri, from Dell'Arte Vetraria, book 7, cap. CVIII.


Recipe Name:
How to extract lacquer from rosolacci, red roses, red violets and every sort of green plant


Recipe Name:
How to extract Lacquer from Orange flowers, rosolacci, Roses, Red violets, Cappucci, Giaggioli and any other flowers. Green from Malva, Pimpinella


Recipe Name:
A Crimson lacquer which is easy to make, in the new style, experimented and verified.


Recipe Name:
Tempera da Bulini for engraving on Copper


Recipe Name:
A very Noble recipe for worms or grubs, (bachi)  segreto di Dottor'Cervieri.

Method:
Take normal bitter citrus juice and put in a glass,  add a third of rosewater, mix well, and sweeten with sugar. Take on an empty stomach.  According to the Doctor mentioned it is very potent remedy for those suffering from grubs or worms, in 'persone piccole, come nelle grandi, e adulte.' (children,  youths and adults)


Method:
Pulverise the pips, crush and reduce in the white wine like a 'savoie'.


Recipe Name:
A remedy which has been tried and Experimented as true for flux of the eyes or bloodshot eyes

Method:
Peel the cabbage stalks, crush and extract the juice. Mix equal quantitites of the juice and wine. Take the powder of Tutia and seal in crimson-red wool cloth, tied with gugliata di rese, (a sachet) then leave to infuse in a jar for 24 hours in the mixture. 
Half a glass of liquid will suffice.


Recipe Name:
Tuquoise d'indaco colour for painting canvases "a uso di Arazzi. "


Recipe Name:
A Berlin Blue (Azzurro Berlino) and how to make it


Recipe Name:
A trick to make a piece of paper walk across a table


Recipe Name:
A lovely green for Miniatures which I have seen being made


Recipe Name:
How to prepare Cherries (Visciolone cherries) for serving at luncheon

Method:
Take the cherries, remove stalk and pip and place in a glask with enough acqua vite to cover them. Leave in the sun for 8-10 days until it has absorbed the colour. Then seal will a dry fig and leave for the occasion. It is an equisite thing, adding especially a little julep sugar, as is the custom.


Method:
Gather the bacche under a waxing moon in May,  dry in the fireplace, crush and make a fine powder. Make pills, each one the size of a giulio. Give one in hot broth to the patient, it works amazingly. I have tried it on several occasions


Recipe Name:
Perfect Paint/Varnish  made from Gomma Coppale (Gum):*  (see below)


Recipe Name:
A shellac Varnish also learned from the same professor.


Recipe Name:
Varnish of Gomma coppale made another way, said to be from a Jew. Rather, it is from the Jew Vigevena.


Recipe Name:
Black Jewish Pitch Varnish not for plaster, but for well-cleaned wood.


Recipe Name:
Clear Varnish for plaster with a last coat of Biacca


Recipe Name:
Varnish for the Corame head rests/pillows  of chairs, so the colour doesn't fade


Recipe Name:
Varnish from a Priest in Livorno (see also on page 311)


Recipe Name:
How to remove the Flemma from Acquavite perfectly without using a flame


Recipe Name:
How to stick a piece of broken terracotta or similar earthenware


Recipe Name:
How to make Papier-mache for making figurines, masks and other things


Recipe Name:
Varnish for putting in oil colours for colouring the above masks


Recipe Name:
How to use the plant painted and coloured on the following page, which is used for healing tertian fever


Recipe Name:
How to make the metal known as Grinciobech


Recipe Name:
Olio Burrino or Varnish to use on the palette, for mixing with colours when painting with oils (see also 239)


Recipe Name:
An ink recipe which I have from Paris, thanks to Sig. Gio Busoni


Recipe Name:
How to paint the glass on magic lanterns


Method:
Put the resin in a caraffe with as much oil over as will cover it. Leave to liquery and mix in the sun.


Recipe Name:
Acqua Sanpareille (Water with no equals)


Recipe Name:
Water of Visciolone, or Rottimo to drink (See another on page 332)

Method:
Take the cherries, as many as you like. Crush, squeeze with the hands and remove the pip. Put over a flame in an Orinale with a lid to extract the spirit which you mix with other cherries for the colour. You can also add a little acquavite to add spirit, and the usual clarified sugar, as in other Rosoli.
If you want it to be a little bitter, add some of the pips to the cherries before distilling.


Method:
Take a quantity of formiche in a glass jar pour oil over and seal the jar well. Leave in the sun for 46 days, then leave in a boiling bagno maria for 2 hours. Strain the oil by squeezing and leave to purify. Separate the dregs and keep until you need.


Method:
Take live ants and rocket seeds, 'detta in latino Eruca' in equal parts. Crush together to a paste, put in a flat glass jar to leave in the sun until it becomes oily. Then put through a mangle in linen and keep the oil in the sun again.


Recipe Name:
A remedy for "il male de pondi" given to be my the Sigr. Francesco Baroncini, who has tried it out on many people with great success (con felice successo)

Method:
Take dry jasmine flowers which wither in the shade and pulverise.


Method:
Powder the dry panic finely and pass through a veil, take in an egg yolk or another suitable drink,


Method:
Cook the jujube berries, which have first been smashed, in the water until reduced by half, strain the decoction and add sugar to taste.


Method:
Mix in a glazed jarlight the acquavite and stir with a silver spatula. Put out the flame and add the acqua rosa


Method:
beat the egg and oil together to make an unguent, which is perfcet the oil has been well mixed in.


Method:
Once the honey has been clarified with water and egg whites, strain through a cloth and place over a flame in a stone vase, add the vinegar and cook gently, removing the foam often until it becomes like a julep.
(no mention of how much ossimel!)


Method:
cook the eggs till hard in water, remove the yolks and crush in the stone mortar. Put in a copper vase over a medium flame, stirring well until it becomes like a oil. Then put in a piece of cloth dipped in water and squeeze in a mangle.


Recipe Name:
Prepared Vinegar solution (Aceto preparato solutivo)

Method:
Take very strong vinegar. 
Put everything in a glazed earthenware vase, place over hot ashes for 12 hours after one boiling, strain.


Recipe Name:
Vinegar against the Plague, said to be by four thieves from Marseille

Method:
Very strong vinegar.
Make an infusion in a glass vase, well sealed in a hot Bagno maria for 48 hours.
Once boiling, leave for an hour, leave to cool, strain and add the grated camphor to the vinegar. Keep in well seald barrels.


Comments:
Not clear what the abbreviations used here mean.I think it must be Libri, written like a 16 with the second figure having a large curleque to the left, as in a kind of unfinished figure of 8

Method:
Leave to macerate for 3 days, distill 'per arena' half the liquor.


Comments:
Known as Nostoch, by Paracelsus. Fegatella is also known by 'our famous Micheli linkia  as "terrestris gelatinosa, membranacea, ex pallida virescente fulva. " It grows in damp places and dies almost as soon as it lives, it seems like mucillage which falls from the sky, with no roots, but it has very fine roots.

Method:
Gather the Nostoch during the spring equinox, and close in a glass still as quickly as possible, with cappello. Place a receptacle at the beak of the vase and leave in the sun until it passes through.

Some make the waters separately, one the 18th of March, the other 18th of September and mix them later. Calling that made in March the Maschio, the other female and that this composition of waters is the most efficacious of all for the above ailments and all others.calling it a universal remedy


Method:
Infuse in glass jar well sealed for 40 days in the sun, filter and leave. Similarly for Aceto Sambucino.


Method:
Infuse the cinnamon in the barley water for 30 hours ina hot Bagno in a glass Orinale well selaed. Then distil until almost dry.


Method:
Take mature black cherries, crush in a stone mortar, leave to ferment until they smell of wine. Add 10 times the amount of water and distil in Magno until reduced by half.


Method:
Dissolve together over a low flame, then pass the balsam through linen cloth.


Method:
Crush the leaves in a stone mortar, mix with the sugar over a low flame.


Method:
Mix and leave to digest for 3 days, distil until nearly dry


Method:
Boil the honey in the water, in a glazed jar until reduced by a quarter, removing any foam, then strain through wool


Method:
Take leaves and tips of the plant, leave in the sun in a glazed jar over the summer. IN the autumn heat the oil lightly, strain.
Simple oils are prepared the same way, as rose, mint, Hypericon.


Method:
Diligently crush the berries and leaves, macerate in the oil for 1 month in the sun. Then add the wine and heat to evaporate and strain through a mangle


Method:
Mix water and oil in the glass jar, add the iron filings gradually, until there is no more fizzing.
Leave to rest for some hours.
Si versi per inclinazione la Flemma,* and conserve the black oil.


Method:
Leave in the sun for a month in a well sealed vase, then strain


Recipe Name:
Oil of Apparisce, known as the Spanish girl's

Method:
Bruise the herbs well and soak in the wine for 3 days in a sealed vase. On the 4th day add the oil, cook in Bagno Maria for 3 days, then squeeze through a mangle. Replace in the base and then add the ingredients 7-10.

Boil again in the Bagno for 6 hours. Then cool and keep without straining.


Method:
Equal parts of ingredients. Pulverise finely.


Method:
Clarify the sugar with egg white, strain and cook, melting the lemon peel. Use enough to give a pleasant odor and flavour. Once it has become a syrup or julep, remove the peel


Method:
Fill a storta lutata with the silk gallette, not washed but with the pupae removed. Apply the receptacle and "distil a fuoco di riverbero per tutti li gradi, "until no more vapour escapes. Remove and separate the spirit from the oil. Rectify twice and keep well sealed


Method:
Gather many barrels of urine and leave to go off in the sun. Once fetid, distil in glass jars over medium heat and reduce by half. Rectify the distilled liquid.
OR
Cook the urine in glass orinale 'a forma di mele' and unite one third part of calce viva, pulverise and close the orinale, apply receptacle, distil without heat


Method:
Put in a remote place, and bury the Bell Jar, inclined on one side, light underneath it many coppe of sulpher roughly crushed, until you have as much as you need. You collect more spirit in damp conditions. The belljar should be in proportion to its height and width. The cups with the sulpher should be ample.e quasi tutto socchiudano il vano della campana.


Method:
Melt the wax over a light flame in a tin vase which will take at least the double. Remove from the heat once melted, stirring so the unguent cools. With water wash it several times and leave in glazed vases . DO not keep for over 3 months  because it turns rancid and does not work any more


Method:
Take fresh flowers, crush and cook in the fat slowly until the humidity has disappeared, squeeze and add the egg yolks


Method:
Melt the wax in the oil, add the turpentine, remove immediatlely from the flame.


# Table 4 List of Ailments

Ailment or condition:
Bowel/intestinal disorders (includes flux, dysentery, diarrhea, etc.)


Ailment or condition:
Brain disorders  (madness, memory loss, etc.)


Ailment or condition:
Respiratory tract disorders (includes phthisis and mal di punta)


Ailment or condition:
Skin; freckles, wrinkles, blemishes, tatoos


Ailment or condition:
Parasites; external- fleas, ticks, lice, grubs


Ailment or condition:
Bowel/intestinal disorders (includes constipation, pain, obstructions, etc.)


Ailment or condition:
Humoral imbalance (excess phlegm, blood etc.)


# Table 6 Glossary of Ingredients

English Translation:
Sweet sedge, Myrtle sedge/or Sweet cane or great Galingal (JF)


English Translation:
A water prepared from herbs (see recipies 882-3)


English Translation:
Water of wild thyme, or mother of thyme.


English Translation:
Could be Soldanella, which is 'bindweed'.


English Translation:
Sea buckthorn, willow thorn, sallow thorn


English Translation:
Composed of corrosives: impure nitric acid, distilled over fierce fire.


Other Information:
Can be substituted with Acqua pettorale, or brodo di ceci rossi


English Translation:
Alchoholic distillation of between 40% and 70%


English Translation:
A round medicine prepared from agaric? (see JF)


English Translation:
Agnus Castus / Chaste tree / Hemp tree (JS) (Hemp and abraham's balm in JF. And Bedevian.


English Translation:
Flowers of Agnus Castus / Chaste tree / Hemp tree (JS) (Hemp and abraham's balm in JF. And Bedevian.)


English Translation:
Seeds of Agnus Castus / Chaste tree / Hemp tree (JS) (Hemp and abraham's balm in JF. And Bedevian.)


Other Information:
(JS):Alum deprived of its water of crystallization so as to become a white powder


English Translation:
Allum with the herb Cali, burned to ashes.


English Translation:
The tartar formed in barrels was burnt and this was rich in potassium

Other Information:
La gromma (o gruma) è il “cremor di tartaro” formatosi nei tini per effetto della fermentazione. Quando la gromma veniva bruciata essa rendeva le ceneri assai ricche di potassio (detto allume di feccia) e quindi veniva adoperato come ottimo mordente (www.Historiabari)


English Translation:
Rock-allum: (OR Roman Allum) Solfato  di alluminio . Used in dyes. In medicine, an astringent and emostatico*


English Translation:
Scaly allum: Made of Pietra speculare, chalky.


English Translation:
Sugar and egg white and rosewater are added to allume di rocca.


Other Information:
The recipes make a careful distinction between the Legno d'Aloe  and Aloe Epatico. JF mentions Aloe cavallino, and cicatrino, whilst Bedevian describes Aloe ordinario-(cavallina) and Aloe delle Indie, (calambucco, Falambo.)


Other Information:
In recipe 3 Loto can be used as a substitute


English Translation:
Sucotrine aloes. (AT) Juice of various plants of the asphodel family-the most prized from Egypt.


Other names:
(Three types; Altea officinale, Altea a foglie di canapa, and Altea rossa di provenza.)

English Translation:
?Could be White or marsh mallow, Egyptian hemp, or Andwerp hollyhock.


English Translation:
White coxcomb, tumblewed, or wild amaranth.


Other Information:
(JS:A wax-like substance of marbled ashy colour, found floating in tropical seas, and as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm-whale. It is odoriferous and used in perfumery; formerly in cookery.


English Translation:
Antimony (or kind of stone-Magnesia, Dross of lead (LA, 32)Or, MM:  Crude antimony is a combination of a metal with common sulphur


English Translation:
Aristolochia (JS) Serpentary root, Virginian snake-root. (Bedevian) Heart -wort or birth wort (JF online)


English Translation:
MM: Long birthwort. (RF) OF the Aristoloch family. Use the roots from the Kingdom of Naples, especially Puglia.


English Translation:
Earth apple, (Bedevian) Round aristoloch.


English Translation:
Yellow arsenic-arsenic mixed with sulpher. (MM)


Other names:
Vincetossico, Bozzoli, Ipecacuana dei tedeschi


English Translation:
Assa-foetida plant (A fennel like plant)


Other Information:
Perhaps also called mascenso in some regions, or  erba amara. Unless this is a substitute plant


English Translation:
Could be Croton,  also known as the castor oil plant.


English Translation:
If the latter, then Gardenbalsam, or  Coast mary/Costemary  or Maudlin herb.(JF 1690 and JF 1611 online)


English Translation:
Either common peruvian balsam, or if white, known as storax. (MM)

Other Information:
One of the most prized balsams, for medicines, synomym of Storace solido o liquido and Benzoino.


English Translation:
Horn from a male animal, whether a buck, billy-goat, etc.


Other Information:
There is ambiguity about whether 'seno' (breast) as found in the text is interchangeable with 'sevo' (fat/grease) also found in the text elsewhere.


English Translation:
Bengewine (JF) Benzoin tree. Also known as Benjamin gum or perfume

Other Information:
Rare expensive perfumed resin (balsam) from a tree (Styrax benzoin) growing in Indocina, Java and Sumatra. Contains benzoic acid and resin.(AT) Used for internal medicine and inhalations.


English Translation:
A green stone ( AL,71 ) A morbid substance produced in the bodies of some land animals.Often substituted with artificial compounds.

Other Information:
The oriental bezoar is 'supposed to to produced…in a cavity at the bottom of the fouth stomach, or an animal of the goat kind, in the mountains of Persia. (MM, 135)


English Translation:
Snakeweed, bistort, adderword (JF online 1611)


English Translation:
Root of Snakeweed, bistort, adderword (JF online 1611)


English Translation:
"A kind of gluey earth found near Babylon." (Engl. Trans.)


Other Information:
A mineral, mixture of hallocite with ferrus oxide. Sticky reddish used as adhesive in gilding. Also. Rubbery, lent itself to use in plasters.


English Translation:
Red clay from Alessandria  (A different variety?)


Other names:
(Se nera: anche Tamarro, Radice vergine)

English Translation:
Bryony-perhaps black bryony because in Italian that is also known as 'Radice vergine'


Other names:
Calamento montano, Calamita, Menta cedrata,


Other Information:
Rhizome used to extract essential oils which were aromatic and with antiseptic properties (AT)


English Translation:
Flower of copper/Calcitis/ Vitriol/  Probably Burnt copper


Other Information:
From the bark of the tree grown in E. Asia.Introduced late 1500's, esp. used for internal medicine.


Other Information:
In 30, a red haired dog. IN 41, Can be interchanged with kidskin, chamois skin, or goat  or mantonina bianca.


English Translation:
A variety of Cinnamon or with sugar added?


English Translation:
Water for soaping oneself (as in text of recipe)


Other Information:
Spelt cipperi, but I think this means capers.


Other Information:
See Culpeper's Physical Directory: Used to stop the flux of blood, and ulcers in the breast and lungs.


English Translation:
Thistle ( here specified as that used for carding clothes)


Other names:
Erba turca/ contra veleno/Granum Paradisi) Malagnetta

Other Information:
The red seeds, from white pods were choppd with pepper and used in cooking.


English Translation:
Seeds of woolly safflower or distaff thistle.


Other Information:
There are many other types(Egyption, American, di Levante,  Wild, etc.)


English Translation:
Cassia Lignea; Bark of the Cinnamomum Cassia tree


English Translation:
"A herb which makes one's nose to bleed but touching it." (JF) (or, Castor, from the glands of Beavers JS)


English Translation:
Flesh of a castrated male sheep (Mutton)


English Translation:
Hide of a castrated male sheep  (Mutton)


English Translation:
Foot of a castrated male sheep  (Mutton)


English Translation:
Breast ( grease?) of Castrated male sheep


English Translation:
(Catapuzza) Caper-spurge, myrthle spurge, wild caper


English Translation:
(Coda equina?) False horse-tail, horse-pipe, bottle brush.


English Translation:
Citron, Adam's Apple. JS (may have been used to describe lemon or lime)


English Translation:
"Crimson obtained from an old world cochineal insect" (LCM)-JS)


English Translation:
Insects which are crushed and used in dyes


English Translation:
Quinine. From the bark of Porlandia Glandiflora (AT.) Sometimes used to mean rhubarb.


Other Information:
Not in Castor Durante's 1585 edition. But, aztec name for drink was tchocolatl, and Spaniards called the drink cioccolata.(Riva, 488) In Durante, 1684. P478 See database diary)


English Translation:
(Crespina, Sevone,) Sow thistle, milk thistle


Other Information:
Deep red stones, used in painting, as antidote in medicine, or black globular. (AL,102)


English Translation:
Scamony, (Florio)(Or according to AT, Synonym for Greek Pitch, Pece Greca.)


Other Information:
well crushed. Pippone can be used in 90.


English Translation:
Counter poison-root of a small plant growing in Peru


Other Information:
Present in residue from vinification, used in dying and artificial raising agents. (AT)


English Translation:
"Which is eaten in salad everywhere in Italy. Also called Cardoncello rosso, or Crispignio, which is miraculous."


Other Information:
Take a bar of Iron or Steel, thrust hot into brimstone. Separate the iron, grind to powder….


Other Information:
Can mean the plant or sesquiossido di ferro e l'idrato di perossido di ferro. (AT)


English Translation:
West african black pepper (cubeb pepper)(wild?)


English Translation:
Tumeric, Long rooted curcuma: Goldenseed root (DTGC)

Other Information:
"A kind of long rush, reed or cane, …so big as they make walking-staves of them."


English Translation:
A pharmaceutical preparation using basil (my guess)


English Translation:
An electuary of general ingredients deemed useful for all conditions-a mild purge for all humors(DTGC)


English Translation:
A pharmaceutical preparation of unknown kind


English Translation:
Pharmaceutical preparation using tumeric-defined as a spice (DTGC)


English Translation:
A gum distilled of the root of the herb scammonie. Used to purge choler. (JF) and see (DTGC)


English Translation:
Unknown. Possibly, a pharmaceutical preparation based on pears.


English Translation:
White unguent for cooling a heat, see DTGC


English Translation:
An unguent used in women's health care (M.O' Dowd)


English Translation:
Found in Antidotarium Nicolai, a 12th century salernitan text and in Hannah Wolley 'A Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet, at www.abacci.com/annotated/ebook


English Translation:
Milk vetch, or, Gum-tragacanth, or Goat's thorn or beard.(Bedevian) Tragacanth / Dragant / Dragagant / Adragant (JS)

Other Information:
JS: "NC: Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs; Ivan Day - used as a binding agent to make powders into pills


English Translation:
White milk vetch? Or the inner white root of milk vetch?


Other names:
Ebulo, Ebolo, Sambuco minore, Sambuchella


English Translation:
Danewort, Dwarf elder, Ground elder leaves


Other Information:
Elenina and Inulina were extracted from this.White crystals, bitter with aromatic scent .(AT)


Other Information:
OED: The Cuscuta Epithymum or Dodder, a parasitic plant growing on thyme. Dodder: slender leafless plants, like masses of twining threads, parasitic on flax, clover, thyme, furze, and other plants.


English Translation:
Probably camendrio-but there are many types; di montagna, salvatica, acquatico .

Other Information:
Could be camendrio?,: there are many kinds, Broadly, Germander, wood or garlic sage?


English Translation:
Could be as erba della madonna; Orpine, purslane leaved stonecrop.


English Translation:
Hermodactyl: (JS)Finger of Hermes (Bedevian) Root of a plant, white, flat  and heart shaped, from Turkey. (MM)

Other Information:
OED: Hermodactyl: A bulbous root, probably that of a species of Colchicum, formerly imported from the East and used in medicine.


Other Information:
'Ethiopian' means a dark, black medicine (AT)


English Translation:
Milk-wort, or Devil's milk:(Bedevian)  Euphorbium (JS)

Other Information:
(JS) A gum resin obtained from certain succulent species of Euphorbia. It is an extremely acrid substance, formerly used as an emetic and purgative. The powder causes violent sneezing. Euphorbia: Latin name of the Spurge genus.


English Translation:
(JF 1611) any kind of corn, but properly wheat


Other names:
(Ligustro?) a spelling /dialect variant?


English Translation:
Soot, ashes, Blackening-As for shoes, smoke


English Translation:
Bloom of copper.('Fiore' here means 'very fine dry particles resulting from the separation of a substance through sublimation or other means.(MM)


English Translation:
Bloom of Verdegris: see above Fior di rame


English Translation:
See Fior di rame. Or. Chemical preparation using yellow brimstone, colcolthar of vitriol. (NC, 232)


English Translation:
Frasenella/frassino fiorito/ Flowering ash, manna ash.


Other Information:
(AT)Originated in Asia, and South America. Imported from late 1400's. Essential oil extracted from it. Cultivated in green houses.


English Translation:
Possibly same as galls from Aleppo-stronger than those from S. Europe


Other Information:
Bulges which form on the oak once insects have pierced the bark. Full of tannin-used in dyes and inks. (AT)


English Translation:
Our ladies' bed-straw, or maiden hair (JF 1611)


Other names:
Genziana asclepiade, or Gentiana maggiore, o gialla?

English Translation:
Milkweed gentian, or willow gentian or a yellow gentian.


English Translation:
A gum made from copal, a vegetable resin which is a very young form of amber.(Wikipedia)


English Translation:
Gum of the giant-fennel, or apricot-tree


English Translation:
Gum made from Goat's beard/thorn/Gum-tragacanth,


English Translation:
"A gum or an oyl distilled from olive-trees in syria. Also, oil of lillies."


English Translation:
Shellac: Shellac; made from the secretions of an insect found in Thailand and India. A natural polymer. Used in varnishes, as food additive etc. (Wikipedia)


English Translation:
Insects which turn into crysalids and are crushed and used in dyes( Chermes)


Other Information:
Used as diuretic, and antisceptic in urinary tracts-like grains of corn.(Riva, 28)


English Translation:
Oil or gum distilled from syrian olive trees


English Translation:
Root of False pellitory of spain, Fellow grass


English Translation:
A form of Incense (maybe fir resin. JS-Lagrima=fir balsam)


English Translation:
Incense from the Frankincense/ Olibanum tree


Other Information:
Native of South Americas, white flowers, for bronchial/catarrhs, can cause vomiting and diarrhoea


Other names:
Perforata, Erba di San Giovanni, Primo Fiore, Fiore d'ogni mese, Pilatro.


English Translation:
(is this ipericon??, or imperatoria? Used for teeth


Other Information:
In 48 it specifies ' Con tutti i suoi ricci, la quale erba lappole e notissima a ciascuno, e d e quella della quale i putti pigliano , i ricci son grandi come una nocchia o manco e gli traggono sopra a testa o addosso di contadini, e a gli altri putti.


Other Information:
This may specify a cut of pork which includes mostly fat.


English Translation:
Decotion made of allum, litharge, vinegar, for whitening the face.(NC)


English Translation:
Ladanam. Fatty, greasy from the plant rimbrentine. (Voc. Crusca)

Other Information:
OED: ladanum: A gum resin which exudes from plants of the genus cistus, much used in perfumery and for fumigation.


English Translation:
Officinal guaiacum gum tree, lignum vitae, or Holy-wood tree

Other Information:
Two main types, though the term legno Santo is used for both varieties


English Translation:
Mixture used for washing hair, involving ashes see recipe **??


English Translation:
A kind of lead oxide, used in glazing obtained from alteration of lead minerals.


English Translation:
Litharge made from mixing it with gold (LA, 208)


English Translation:
Lupin (Could be either wild or Egyptian)


English Translation:
Mace: Aromatic fleshy shell of nutmeg seed.


Other Information:
In 68 it must be 'small and blind.' Also called Lucengola.


English Translation:
Member of the Pea family (Lathyrus) or a kind of vetch


Other names:
(1) Manna di persia?/Lupinella/(2) Manna del Libano, lentisco, Pistaccio

English Translation:
Camel thorn, Hebrew Manna plant  or Lentisck.


English Translation:
Bone marrow from the flanks of an asses back legs.


English Translation:
Honey into which dry roses have been mixed in some way


English Translation:
Tre-foil, Blue melilot, King's clover flowers


English Translation:
Tre-foil, Blue melilot, King's clover seeds


English Translation:
Lemon- balm (But, many kinds of melissa)


English Translation:
Lemon-balm leaves. Melissa / Balm-mint /


Other Information:
Quelle pome che si mangiano, che sono gialle e odorifere.If none, take a melo o pomo called mele rose. Interchanged with Melo  rosato, and  mele in 38.


Other names:
(if menta dei giardini, or menta comune)


English Translation:
A preparation using mercury, vitriol, etc. (NC, 233)


English Translation:
Hara nut tree/ Citron myrobalan / Yellow myrobalan


English Translation:
Nuts or bark of Citron myrobalan / Yellow myrobalan


English Translation:
(JS) A composition of many ingredients in the form of an electuary, regarded as a universal antidote or preservative against poison and infectious disease. Named after  Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (died c 63 b.c.).

Other Information:
The Salve: Radiche di ebuli, 1 1/2 lb.butiro, 1 1/2 lb., oglio di camomilla, oglio rosato, oglio d'ipericon, 1 oz
Sogna, un cece (chickpea), foglie di edera.


Other names:
Pomi cotogni (Or they can be used instead)

English Translation:
(JS)NC: Rob Cydoniorum, Or Rob of Quinces. Take of the clarified juice of Quinces, boil it till two parts be consumed and with its equal weight in sugar boil it into a Rob.

Other Information:
(JS) GS: a sort of cotognata, called miva di codogni semplice di Mesue. Recipe (JS)


English Translation:
Bitume or pece (pitch, or tar) used in mummifying


Other Information:
JS) An odoriferous, reddish-brown substance, secreted in a gland or sac by the male musk-deer. It has a very powerful and enduring odour, and is used as the basis of many perfumes, and in medicine as a stimulant and antispasmodic


English Translation:
Green tree moss growing on the oak (JF 1611)


English Translation:
Nackre/nacchere/nacchera= a kind of shell fish JF:


Other names:
Cetrangolo, arancio, naranzio, Melarancio, Arancio dolce, Pomo Narancio, Naranci,


English Translation:
Another term for a seville orange? (cedrangolo)


Other Information:
E quella erba che si mangia in insalata.


Other names:
Nepente, Pianta da brocche? (PG has nepente, not nepeta)


English Translation:
The burnt shell of a nut (JF: nocella, any kind of small nut)


Other Information:
(Also if type of oil is not specified I assume Olive)


English Translation:
Could be short for sassofrasso, sassafraso, i.e. Sassafras Tree.


Other Information:
As in branch, leaves, or chopped. Not oil


English Translation:
JF 1611) Venus' navell, Hipwort, peniewort, Peniegrasse (roots of)


English Translation:
Navelwort, Kidney-wort (But AT says, the immature pods ofr Papaver Sonniferum which can be extracted to produce one of many kinds of opiate.


English Translation:
(Ozimi, Ozimo in JS, also no definition)


English Translation:
JF 1611) Satirion (a herb) Castor oil plant, (Bedevian)


English Translation:
JF 1611) The first buds, sprouts, tendrils on the vine


English Translation:
May be Pavoncina, which is Red Sandalwod tree, or Coral pea tree. (Bedevian)


English Translation:
A stone from Portugal  which is green and roan, darkish, shiny and light.(434)


English Translation:
Greek pitch: a resin obtained from the distillation of Terebentina.


English Translation:
Idrodolomiti, a mixture of idromagnesite and calcite, found on vesuvius or in Lazio


English Translation:
Pimento, Red Pepper, Guinea Pepper, Capiscum.


Other names:
Ipericon, Pilatro, Primo fiore, Fiore di ogni mese, ipericon


Other Information:
There are ten varieties of this including Waybread, Greater plantain, Star of the earth, Ribwort,


English Translation:
Pine resin  (see 1149, gomma di pinattro-is same?) (Turpentine)


English Translation:
JS: 'OED: Wild Thyme. a popular corruption of some med.L. herbalists’ name, e.g. Pulegium montanum, or Serpyllum montanum:


English Translation:
Common polypody or golden locks; often growing on oaks or walls, hence 'quercino' or oaken-fern.


Other Information:
To replace nasturtium seeds, from a speziale.


Other Information:
When Used in Savelli Pratilli (source ID 10) called mele appie


Other Information:
(piccoli, like cimici grossi, con molti piedi, che si trovano sotto le pietre).


English Translation:
Potassium hydrate (Free Online medical Dictionary)


English Translation:
Radish (JF says rafano is any radish-perhaps the qualification 'da mangiare' suggests radish

Other Information:
Can substitute common roots and leaves used in salad.


English Translation:
Dock (whether smooth, or spinach-dock or bladder-dock?)


Other Information:
(che restanto sopra li rosari, come pater nostri in forma di ovo col seme dentro)similar amounts)


Other Information:
In 56 it specifies that these reduce bruising. IN 69 they should be red or white.


English Translation:
A yellow cordial water made with the bog-plant 'sundew' (see www.historicfood.com/rosolio)


Other Information:
According to recipe 491 this is made of distilled human and animal blood)


Other names:
Also referred to as  'da mangiare' in one recipe.


English Translation:
Halite: Cloruro di sodio, a crystalline mineral, used in many other preparations.


English Translation:
(could be a mistake? Surely sandali bianco and citrino?


Other Information:
It specifies it should be a woman's first menses.


English Translation:
A kind of gum like incense coming from a thorny plant in Persia. Or, a wild rose


Other names:
?Satoreggia, Santoreggia, Timbra, Cunilia, Erba acciugaia.


English Translation:
Devil's bit scabious or scabious, pincushion flower.


English Translation:
Bramble or shrub, or a flower or herb which some take for yellow yarrow (JF)


English Translation:
Leaves of Scordion or water germander (JF)


English Translation:
Snake , (Poisonous with square head with yellow spots)


Other Information:
He explains what they are and how to extact from plant. Hence, new.


English Translation:
Common houseleek, or tree house look, or jupiter's beard


English Translation:
Leaves of Common houseleek, or tree house look, or jupiter's beard


Other Information:
There are many other types of 'sena', including 'dei poveri'.


English Translation:
Black mustard, or wild or corn mustard. 'Common' mustard is black.

Other Information:
Could this be rape seed? In Italian one term is Rapanea.?


English Translation:
Common dragon or snake plant or tarragon


English Translation:
Common dragon or snake plant or tarragon roots


English Translation:
Laserpitium siler (A kind of mushroom, known in Italian as Siler montano) or Prick-wood or Spindle tree seed


Other Information:
(The crystals are lemon yellow. (Wikipedia)


English Translation:
Spike: Lavendula, French Lavender. Related to common lavender


English Translation:
Spikenard: (JS) Aromatic substance Derived from Nardostachys Jatamansi of Northern India.


Other Information:
(Perhaps "common buckthorn"-used widely as a purgative. (Wikipedia)


English Translation:
"A kind of rugged stone, dross or cinders found in brass furnaces, much used in medicines for sore eyes." (JF)


Other names:
Spigo digitato, Giunco odorato, Fieno di camello


Other Information:
Anti-parassitario, used for scabies and against fleas


English Translation:
Sticadove/sticadoor (JS) (Kind of lavender)


English Translation:
Sticadove/sticadoor (JS) (Kind of lavender) (Flower)


English Translation:
Sticadove/sticadoor (JS) (Kind of lavender) (Syrup of )


English Translation:
Resin or gum or balsam from the Storax, or styrax tree, or sweet-gum tree. (AT) In Liquid form (JS)

Other Information:
The resin of a tree, cultivated in Greece. Used as anti-inflamatory, and in 19th for scabies.(E.R) See also Balsamo


English Translation:
The best storax (JF) (Dry resin of storax, JS)


English Translation:
(Mantis sturiaca seems to be an insect-could it be linked)


English Translation:
Balsam or Balm of Gilead or Mecca, Tacamahaca.


English Translation:
Turpentine from the terebinto/terebinth tree


Other Information:
In Ricettario Fiorentino, 1696, see Ammoniaco Timiama,' una lagrima di una ferula…di un'arbore detto metopio. White inside the 'tear', minute grains like incense, dense, like galbano. (p17) Or, Could be understood as a mixture of aromatic scents  known as 'confectio timiame' as described  in 'Dragon's Brain Perfume. An Historical Geography of Camphor.' R. A Donkin, (Brill, 1999.);146.


English Translation:
Is it turbitto bastardo? Which in Bedevian is Laserwort? Athamanta Turbith:  "A root much used in physicke to purge phlegm with. (JF 1611) Laserwort?

Other Information:
According to wwww.annie's plants this plant derives from the eastern mediterranean. But, JS translates as Turpeth / Turbith: RC: Radice dell’Ipomaca Turpethum, found in Ceylon and grown in the Indies.


Other names:
(Bot) Tuja?  There are two kinds.  Sandaraca, and Albero della vita, Tuia d'oriente.

English Translation:
Arar tree, Sandarach tree, Juniper-gum tree. Or Arbor vitae, Chinese arbor vitae.

Other Information:
(Min. could be the 'heavier foil of brass that sticketh to the higher places of furnaces of melting houses, it is good for sore eyes.(JF)


English Translation:
JS)OED: crude oxide of zinc found adhering in grey or brownish flakes to flues of furnaces in which brass is melted (cf. pompholyx); also occurring in some countries as a native mineral; formerly used medically, chiefly in astringent ointments and lotions


English Translation:
Ointment of dialtea (AR,  338, 340) (Altea, marshmallow)


Other Information:
This ointment appears also in James Shaw's commodities database


English Translation:
Ointment made with axungiae porcinae and oculorum populi. (AR 320)


English Translation:
Possibly a bony protruberance from the leg (as in horses' chestnut-Cambridge English Dict.)


Other Information:
www.Kramer's alternate names: Oxide of Copper, Acetate of Copper; Cupric Acetate


Other Information:
But earlier description of porcellette was of earwigs.


English Translation:
Varnish used in the preparation of 'corame', embossed leather hangings


English Translation:
Sulphuric acid: Blue vitriol, copper sulphate, green vitriol, ferrous sulphate)etc.


Other Information:
There were many composite metal sulphates, including sulphuric acid-because copper, iron and zinc sulphate have an appearance similar to glass. Used as an agent in chemical reactions .(AT)


English Translation:
Red vitriol: Nitric Acid and Copper (KCS)


English Translation:
Green Vitriol: Ferrous Sulphate, Nitric Acid & Copper. (KCS)


Other Information:
Often, Malvagia or Greek wine is specified, 'or good white wine.' (see 28) In 10, 'piccolo'


English Translation:
Wine from  A decotion of mortella flowers.


English Translation:
Solidago, Golden rod, Aaron's rod. (www.dictionary.com)

Other Information:
Anti-inflamatory and 'antiurica' used in renal and rheumatic compaints


English Translation:
Zilo: A tree which yields balsam' (Florio)


English Translation:
Kind of melon, like Cantalupe melons. Or some kind of animal, since recipe 433 mentions cutting off its feet.


English Translation:
Is this abbreviation for belzoino? See 1845


Other Information:
Sometimes penniti is used as a substitute


English Translation:
Sugar flavoured with borage, or rose-campion.


