# Table 1 Books of Secrets

Book or MS Title:
De' Secreti del Reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese, Prima parte, divisa in sei libri. Opera utilissima, et universalmente necessaria, e dilettevole a ciascheduno. Second Edition. (British Library)

Additional information:
The first part of the secreti is divided into six sections. The first is devoted to 'Ordine, et secreti da conservar la gioventu', e ritardar la vecchiezza, e mantener la persona sempre sana, e vigorosa, come nel piu' bel fiore della sua eta'. I have consulted the British Library volume held at shelfmark 42.f.19.


Book or MS Title:
La Seconda Parte De I Secreti Di Diversi Eccellentissimi Uomini Nuovamente Raccolti, e con diligenza stampati. (British Library)

Additional information:
The edition used is a compilation of parts I, II, and III. The same edition has been used for part III, but is named as source 3 to facilitate comparison between the different parts of the whole collection. I have used the British Library volume held at shelfmark 1036.c.1.


Book or MS Title:
Dei Secreti di Diversi Eccellentissimi Huomini nuovamente Raccolti. Parte Terza. (British Library)

Additional information:
The edition used is a compilation of parts I, II, and III. The same edition has been used for part II,  but is named as source 3 to facilitate comparison between the different parts of the whole collection. I have used the British Library volume held at shelfmark 1036.c.1.


Book or MS Title:
De Secreti del R.D.Alessio Piemontese. Parti Quattro .

Additional information:
I have used the volume held by the Wellcome Library at shelfmark 10586/A


Book or MS Title:
Opera Nova Intitolata Dificio de Ricette, nella quale si contengono tre utilissimi Ricettari. Nel primo si tratta di molte e diverse virtu. Nel second se insegna a comporre varie sorti de suavi e utili odori. Nel terzo et ultimo si tratta di alcuni rime di secreti medicinali necessari in risanarsi corpi humani, come nella tavola qui seguente si puo vedere.

Additional information:
I have used the British Library volume held at shelfmark 1651/4 . Additional notes
Note the themes in the introduction to this volume: Avendo benigno lettor mio gia fa molti anni non gia con poche mie fatiche dilettationi di radunare e cumulare insieme diverse e varie sorte di recette esperimentate, lequale te insegneranno di molti bellissimi secreti, e havendole io mostrate e consultate con molti miei amici, liquali m'hanno pregato anzi constretto che per beneficio universale io le debbia mettere in stampa accio che loro insieme con quelli che se dilettano di simili virtute ne possino havere copia. Et cosi in fatisfation sua ho deliberato di far stampare el mio sopradetto Recetario da lo quale ciascheduno ne potra prendere molta utilita e piacere. Laquale opera sara divisa in tre Recettari, nel primo saranno scritte de molte utilissime ricette, le quale anchora saranno per dar piacere come ne la presente opera vederete. Poi ne lo secondo Ricettario vederete scritti de molti dignissimi secreti circa a l'arte delli soavissimi e confortativi odori come ne la opera vederete. El terzo e ultimo Recettario trattara di alcuni secreti necessari a la salute de li corpi humani che veramente ciascun di loro valeno uno tesoro, perche certamente se non fussero li secreti de l'arte medicinale molto piu breve saria la nostra vita, e pero vivi e sta sano.

Place/Publisher:
Venice, Giovanantonio et i Fratelli da Sabio

Additional notes:
Note the themes in the introduction to this volume: Avendo benigno lettor mio gia fa molti anni non gia con poche mie fatiche dilettationi di radunare e cumulare insieme diverse e varie sorte di recette esperimentate, lequale te insegneranno di molti bellissimi secreti, e havendole io mostrate e consultate con molti miei amici, liquali m'hanno pregato anzi constretto che per beneficio universale io le debbia mettere in stampa accio che loro insieme con quelli che se dilettano di simili virtute ne possino havere copia. Et cosi in fatisfation sua ho deliberato di far stampare el mio sopradetto Recetario da lo quale ciascheduno ne potra prendere molta utilita e piacere. Laquale opera sara divisa in tre Recettari, nel primo saranno scritte de molte utilissime ricette, le quale anchora saranno per dar piacere come ne la presente opera vederete. Poi ne lo secondo Ricettario vederete scritti de molti dignissimi secreti circa a l'arte delli soavissimi e confortativi odori come ne la opera vederete. El terzo e ultimo Recettario trattara di alcuni secreti necessari a la salute de li corpi humani che veramente ciascun di loro valeno uno tesoro, perche certamente se non fussero li secreti de l'arte medicinale molto piu breve saria la nostra vita, e pero vivi e sta sano.


Book or MS Title:
Tesoro di varii secreti naturali. Tratta da diversi Auttori famossissimi e piu volte sprementati in molte persone. Opera molto giovevole alla sanita de'corpi humani. Con la dichiaratione di molti dubij. Et il modo di far e conservar il Vino

Additional information:
I have used the British Library volume found at shelfmark Cup.406.g.20


Book or MS Title:
Centuria di Secreti Politici, Cimichi, e Naturali

Place/Publisher:
Venice, Verona, Parma, Lodi, Milano, Bologna, Padova: Pietro Paolo Tozzi


Book or MS Title:
Recettario Novo probatissimo a molte infirmita, e etiandio di molte gentilezze utile a chi le vora provare

Additional information:
Selected because publication date coincides with that of Dificio, 1532, supposedly  to be ‘first’ published book . This is much shorter. Interesting to see how many of these older recipes are used in the Secreti del Rev. Dono Alessio Piemontese. Also, interesting to compare style of chapbook recipes before and after the innovations of piemontese: So, to compare to a 1600 pamphlet, for example. I have used the British Library volume found at shelfmark Cup.406.g.20


Book or MS Title:
Libro contenente la maniera di cucinare e vari segreti e rimedi per malatie et altro:

Additional information:
An 18th century manuscript 'Libro di Casa' from the archive of a  family from Reggio Emilia, transcribed, edited and printed by Giulio Bizzarri and Eleonora Bronzoni. Introduction by Emilio Faccioli. 
The Manuscript itself is divided into sections, 'Materie per uso di cucina' 'Segreti e rimedi'  and 'Robe per uso di credenza'. I have only entered those from the 'Segreti e rimedi' section. However, there are more recipes for cooking than anything else.
Page references refer to the printed 1986 volume. 'Libro contenente la maniera di cucinare e vari segreti e rimedi per malatie et altro. ‘Libro di casa’ di una famiglia reggiana del Settecento.'

Place/Publisher:
Edited by Giulio Bizzarri e Eleonora Bronzoni, Intro. Emilio Faccioli.
Bologna: Il lavoro editoriale,


Additional information:
Thought to have been compiled / transcribed as part of the dowry taken by a woman from the Savelli family of Sinalunga. Perhaps by two speziali. I have taken this data from the modern edition "Il Ricettario Savelli-Pratilli. Un manoscritto senese del Settecento di farmacopea, gastronomia e tecnica artistica. Ed. Antonio P. Torresi, (Liberty house;Ferrara, 2001). " Page references are to the modern edition.


Book or MS Title:
Ricette e Segreti diversi di Me Filippo Maria De Giovanni Batista Scarlatti messe in sieme questo Anno 1713

Additional information:
Manuscript held by the Wellcome Library in the Archives and Manuscripts section, at shelfmark MS 4383.


Book or MS Title:
Aggiunta d’altri diversi segreti fatta da me Gio Batista di filippo Scarlatti, alla quale ho dato principio questo preseente anno 1735.

Additional information:
This is the second part of the manuscript which was compiled in 1753 by Gio:Battista di Filippo Scarlatti, presumably his son. Manuscript held by the Wellcome Library in the Archives and Manuscripts section, at shelfmark MS 4383.


# Table 2 Recipes

Aims of Remedy:
This will help you to conserve and restore your health and youth. It restores natural heat and damp, vigour and life to the human body. It can be taken by mouth. The most precious of the two liquids which are produced, the coloured one,  conserves, strengthens, returns natural heat and energy, makes you vigorous of body, head, mind, giving colour to the face, sweet breath, keeps you young and  robust. It can be rendered even more perfect with the addition of dissolved gold, and the next recipe in the volume describes how to do this.

How to take:
Drink in winter, on its own, or in a soup of veal, castrato, pigeon or chicken, or in malvagia, greek wine, or good white wine. In summer in acqua di buglossa, or boiled soups, or cooked boragine, buglossa, lattuga, cecoria, and  endivia. Always good in half a glass of a woman's milk  if she is nursing a boy, or in goat's milk. Give more those who are sicker, older, weaker and more can be given in winter.


Name of Recipe:
How to Dissolve Gold in Drinkable Liquor to be taken by mouth to conserve youth and health, on its own and mixed with the liquor described above. It will cure every ailment in seven or more days.

How to take:
The resulting liquid can be taken by mouth once or twice a month, alone or with the mixture from recipe 1

Comment:
It is used to prevent illness, to keep one youthful and to heal all obstinate incurable ailments. Water of silver is also miraculous. HE cites an Englishman he knew who had made one.


Name of Recipe:
Potion or drink to use in place of syrups or medicines.

Aims of Remedy:
For who needs to take a purge, for all types of people at all ages. As much can be taken as desired for it does no damage. Useful for Mal Francese and all stomach ailments and of the head. The healthy can take it twice a year as a purge, in spring and september.

How to take:
Drink half a glass at dawn , or more, warmed then stay in bed and sleep a while if possible and if you wish toget up, go about the house or out on your business, do as you please. It is safer to stay at home especially because it may cause bowel movements (bisogni del movimento del corpo). And you can take for 5, 7, 9, 11 mornings without damage.


Name of Recipe:
Easy and splendid remedy for Mal Francese

Aims of Remedy:
For every crude kind of Mal francese, such as  Pains, piaghe, * boils. Very cheap, no need to stay in bed or at home and can be used whilst travelling. Can also be used for all pains in the joints (giunture) and everywhere on the body.

How to take:
Drink a glass of it hot in the morning and afterwards chew a little melo cotogno, or una sorba, or a little citrus fruit or bitter pomegranate , or something else astringent. Stay in bed as long as you like, sleep a little. Then get up, go out, get on with your duties.Take on alternate days.or, twice a week if the ailment is not too grave. You will see a miracle and there is no need to take anything else, this will be sufficient.


Aims of Remedy:
Suitable even if it is a chronic problem

How to take:
If using for the carnosita of the verga or penis, first take one of those schizzatoro for blowing up ballons-balls (balloni da giocare)and fill with the white wine/rose/plantain/milk  liquid and with that wine try to wash the penis very carefully with the inflator from inside, and then take a long wax candle, which can go inside the penis and on its tip, put  some of the unguent mentioned above, heated a little, so it doesn't break up, and put it inside the penis so as much as possible goes inside, till you find the carnosita' and leave the unguent there a little while. Then remove it  and do this in the morning, the evening, when in bed with the belly upwards, and you will see 'un effetto raro,' and it will be healed within a few days.


Name of Recipe:
To heal overheating and ailments of the liver

Aims of Remedy:
Also useful for those who for that reason had a face like a leper, thickened legs or hands which are infocate, or scabrose.

How to take:
Take a glass in the morning, on alternate days, lie on your stomach and sleep if possible, then get up and do as you wish. You will heal in a few days. This for the summer. Those with a cold stomach, put a piece of red or scarlat cloth, (rosato, scarlato or scarlattino) over the chest, wiping oneself with a little oil for weak stomachs, as I will teach in the next recipe. (7)

Comment:
Note the use of red coloured cloth to heal overheating


How to take:
The patient should lie in bed, face down, and put the hot leaves on the haemorrhoids (NB. placed on the cloth) having put a little olive oil on them first. Meanwhile, take some others and put them on another cloth, and remove the first ones,and put this one on, and keep on changing them doing it all night, or as long as you are able, and then leave the patient to sleep and you will see that next morning he will be cured, and clean of them, as if he had never had them.


How to take:
Take it hot and smear from the pubic bone (petenecchio) up to the throat, when in bed during the evening. And when eating, use rosemary as much as possible, raw or cooked, even putting it in the wine you drink. Also, take the miraculous acqua vite I have described. (1)


Ailment/Condition (E):
Bowel/intestinal disorders (includes constipation, pain, obstructions, etc.)

Cause/Description of ailment:
A thirty-six year old woman, had been trying to lighten her hair colour in the sun, or for some other reason, her stomach was ruined such that she was constipated for two and a half years, and when she ate, vomited everything and she had become dry as wood and yellow.

How to take:
Give the bread to the patient for eight or ten days. Drink the wine, without water and eat gentle foods, with cinnamon, sugar and every morning drink a finger height of acqua vite in a glass. Every evening smear the mixture of herbs on the chest with the distilled oil and assentio. The Patient should get up late every morning, and at night keep a pillow at the stomach and sometimes eat confettione di diambra.

Comment:
A wise Agostinian  nun, who had infinite rare secrets, used this remedy and in seventeen days the woman was healthy, her colour had returned and she was as beautiful as before.


Comment:
The child will believe it is milk and drink it more readily.


Comment:
Particularly for those babies who are so small or stomacosi, that they couldn't take anything by mouth


Cause/Description of ailment:
That is, when they tremble and tramortiscono, which occurs because children often ingest many two headed worms, which go to the heart and this makes them tremble and often kills them.


How to take:
The patient eats this for eight days, morning and evening and the patient should abstain from wine, coitus, legumes, salad, heavy meats and all sad things.


Name of Recipe:
Oil of Sulpher, For cancers, fistulas or old wounds

How to take:
Wash the wound with acqua vita or white wine and put this oil on top, and in a few days it will have healed perfectly.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Caused by poisoned Iron. (Ferro attossicato).

How to take:
Put the mixture on the wound and it will pull out the poison and the wound can then be medicated as normal. If necessary the assa fetida on its own can be used to remove the poison from the wound.


Name of Recipe:
To remove arrows  or other metals from wounds

How to take:
Put the crushed herb and mixture on the wound, tie a bandage round firmly and it will pull the metal out and heal the wound.


Name of Recipe:
The great cough of children (Gran tosse dei Puttini)

Ailment/Condition (E):
Respiratory tract disorders (includes phthisis and mal di punta)

How to take:
A drink and an unguent are made. The latter is smeared on the chest.


Name of Recipe:
For those who have had a bang on the head

How to take:
Probably meant to place the hot, impregnated cloth on the head.


How to take:
Whilst the mixture is hot , the patient goes to bed and the mixture/vapour is conveyed into the patient's ear with a funnel for half an hour. Then the oil is heated till tepid and 2 or 3 drops put in the ear, rub the ear with cotton steeped in musk and then allow patient to sleep.Be careful when doing the fumigations,, to have dry beans which are to be chewed and broken with the teeth and then spat out, so that the pori of the ear open up. In a few days, with god's grace, the ears will open, and if they don't then there is no other remedy possible. This will not work if the subject was born deaf. Also use pills which purge the head and eat good food.


Name of Recipe:
To Heal a woman whose womb is falling out.

How to take:
The woman stands over the hot scented object, and the ball of impregnated cloth is inserted in the vagina. An unguent is smeared on her kidneys, covered in warm stoppa,* and  bandaged like a child. The woman must be kept in bed with the kidneys below, head lowered and the buttocks raised. Do this on alternate evenings, three times and she will be cured.  She should eat hot foods like pigeons, hens, with spices and other such things.


Name of Recipe:
To make a woman's milk come and increase

How to take:
THe woman drinks the liquid as often as possible and this will bring on her milk, and if she is not menstruating, this will bring on her menses.


Name of Recipe:
For the boils produced by Mal Francese, old and new

How to take:
An oil is smeared around and on top of the boils, which have been washed with the wine. Linen is placed on top. Then boils are pierced with an iron or left to burst.


Name of Recipe:
Another Remedy for Boils produced by the Mal Francese

How to take:
Wash the boils in wine, and the unguent is placed on the boil in a piece of cloth for a day.


Name of Recipe:
For someone who has been struck on the head with wood or stone.

How to take:
If the wound is bleeding, dry it and clean well, washing it with white wine, or water, and then put the juice on it and on this the crushed herb. Bandage well and leave for a day.


Name of Recipe:
Water for cleaning every kind of wound in a few hours.

How to take:
Wash the wound with it and placing a damp cloth over it, it has miraculous properties.His dagger had fallen on his ankle , a dangerous place, and he did nothing but put this water on it, which one of the gentlemen of the house had found ready made, and in two days it was healed, leaving no sign. Also useful for contraction of nerves, and many other things. It can also be mixed with other things.

Comment:
This is something everyone should keep at home, ready made to use when needed, it costs little and is easy to make and of holy and miracuous properties. It was used once by a servant of the Ill. Sig. Lionelo Pio da Carpi in venice, in 1548.


Name of Recipe:
Hypericon Oil, or Perforata, or Red Oil.

How to take:
Smear on wounds and affected parts, usually heated up.

Comment:
This oil has so many virtues, I will recount only those I have witnessed several times. Useful for all cold pains in the body, sciataica, cold gout, if smeared on hot. For Febre quartana, terzana, smear on the back; it heals colic pains, if smeared on the stomach and chest. If smeared on the pettignone it makes one urinate. If a woman is carrying a dead baby, drinking three of four dramms will help her to expel the body. If is particulary effective for plague, and drinking 2 oz. With wine. But particularly used for smearing on wounds.


How to take:
It can be used for any cold ailment. Adding extra ingredients it is good for the pains caused by gout, rubbing it on the affected joints

Comment:
This was used to heal a monk of Sant' onofrio, (cioe' che portava quell'abito romano, , ma non stava in manasterio, ) whose left arm had been dry as wood for eleven years, because nature didn't sent it any nutriments. This was in summer 1557. I put this unguent on it for the enght of two miserere, left him in the sun and 56 days ater the veins started to bring nourishment back to the arm, and nine days ater the flesh returned on the arm. Also when I went to Jerusalem in 1518 on a boad, captained by Piero da Chioggia, we were attacked by pirates, one sailor was injured in the arm, and the doctor wanted to amputate it, and I used this unguent and healed his arm in 5 or 6 days. Also, used by his friend Diego portughese, in Rome in 1514.


How to take:
This is for every wound, and spasimo. Old and new wounds, fistole, canchero. Scrofole can be wiped with this. A cloth of hemp steeped in this oil, bandaged around the scrofole when the moon is waning,  by the time is waxes again, these will be healed, whether on men or women.  Aso helps with poisons taken by mouth, or bites,

Comment:
This is so precious that all princes and republics should have it made in their Spetierie, and make it in the presence of doctors, like Theriac, or at least everyone shoud keep this at home, ready made, and you can make a lot and keep it, since it improves with age.


How to take:
Half an hour before the fever comes, put the patient in bed, well covered up,  with a brazier near, and drink a glass of vin greco o mavagia. (He omits to mention it here, but I think the powdered ingredients are added to this and drunk.)  Heat the bed with scaldaletto and heat the wine so the patient sweats and has rivolutioni di stomaco. Bring the patient with table clothes, linen towels , drying the sweat carefully,  so he sweats as much as he can bear. Once the fever has passed, let him stay in bed if he wishes, and eat freely. Put  the herb and vinegar mixture on the pulses of the wrists, tying with a bandage, leave the patient all day. Next day, remove, when the fever returns,  take the fresh herbs and crush again,  repeat the process, two or three times, with the sweating, and the patient shoud heal  perfectly.


Aims of Remedy:
To dry the warts  so they fall off or are pulled off.

How to take:
Bath the porri with the salt/rasano water often, keeping a bandage on it, or one steeped in the water and in one or two days, the porri will dry and fall off. Then rub with unguent aureo, or wash with the same water.


Name of Recipe:
For Plurisy, (Alla puntura, or mal di Costa)

How to take:
The patient eats a baked apple containing incense, this makes him spit la postema and heals everything.

Comment:
He describes a Blacksmith whose jaws were locked together and had to be forced open, and after taking this he brought up much rotten materia and the 'postema era rotta'.


How to take:
The cooked focacetta is placed whilst hot on the painful place and another fried in the same oil. When cold the first is  removed and refried and do this is repeated many times, until the postema bursts, and is spat out.


How to take:
Heat the bread spread with theriac  in the fire and put on the tetta* where the pain is, and put the other part behind the shoulder , so it is directy behind the other, with the body between, (i.e. like a sandwich) and bandage so it cannot move and leave for a night, or until the postema breaks. Sometimes this only takes an hour or two. Remove the bread, allow the patient to spit, and mondificare il petto. Allow patient to sleep and eat, and s/he will be heathy again.


How to take:
Give the tooth shavings to the patient to drink in a little barley water, o acqua pettorale, or red chick pea soup, or white wine .


Name of Recipe:
Chest water for those with pleurisy (Mal della punta)

Aims of Remedy:
Clears up the chest wonderfully. Mondifica il petto matura e rompe la postema.

How to take:
The patient drinks the mixture, at any time of day and before sleep, the more the better, drinking slowly. IT can be used with the other recipes for mal di punta, or alone and by itself. Also excellent for coughs, asma or tightness of chest, and stomach problems.

Comment:
This recipe given to me by Sig. Girolamo Ruscello, in 1543, in Bologna,  with which he had cured himself of the Mal di punta that year very quickly ,without any bloodletting.


Name of Recipe:
For ailments of the Mouth and palate and thoat.

Comment:
Can also be used to heal boils/warts on the penis and around the pubic bone.


Name of Recipe:
For Wounds, or other ailments of the leg

How to take:
The wound is washed in wine and the ingredients placed on top, the wound is bound, and the dressing changed twice a day.


How to take:
Making plasters with a salve, which are applied to the legs and knees and used to draw out the moisture.


How to take:
The patient takes up to 5 spoonfuls of this conserve in  the evening, when sleeping and the same at dawn, before and after meals. At the same time keep the plaister over the buttocks where the sciatic nerve is, as made in previous recipe. After 10 days, remove and put under the thighs for ten days. This will pull out the moisture.   For stubborn cases add extra ingredients, and make a clyster. The patient must fast, then lie on the side of the sciatica, then apply a new one every two days, for up to one month. If this doesn’t work, then he must take pills, every three days, then every four, etc. up to seven times. Only twice has he found this necessary. (the pills are in the next recipe)

Comment:
One patient only improved after 70 days, still no change, when a nun secretly gave him termentina lavata with acqua di boragine, four times.


How to take:
When in great pain, take all 5, every four days. Then every 5, days, and every 6, etc. in the mornings at dawn. No eating for 5-6 hours, nor bowel movements, do not drink wine or water, eat salami or beans or onion, etc.


Name of Recipe:
Water for Scabies. External and internal

How to take:
Wash the arms and affected places with the water. Leave it to dry, and do not otherwise wash next day. The third day wash yourself, the fourth no, . The first and second will pull away the rogna within the body, the third will dry it, and leave the cleanest person, inside and out. You can ignore every kind of ointment, or medicine by mouth. This water whitens the skin and pulls out the false humid putrid odors.

Comment:
Can be used by great ladies and Queens. Nothing is more beautiful. Useful also for mal Francese and Gouts.,


Name of Recipe:
For Mal di Fianco, for men and women who suffer.

Cause/Description of ailment:
Nearly always this pain comes with pain in the kidneys, or kidney stones, and difficulty urinating, so it is useful to use both to protect against these ailments.

How to take:
Eat five quince stones before eating any food, with salt and bread, .They are also an excellent remedy against wine, preventing one from getting drunk, or having a bad head, and give good appetite, improve the chest and stomach, and prevents worms. The other preservative is to eat the herb Artemisia in salads, soups, pies, omlettes etc. Careful, not erba matricaria, which is bitter.  It looks like prezzemolo, or Erba San giovanni, or erba Santa Maria,  and tastes sweet rather than bitter. Also, you can make a plaister by boiling the donkey excrement in wine, adding the ingredients at  (2), boiling  for a miserere, removing and sqeeze the substance whilst in the wine, and making a clister for the patient, as hot as possible, and keep it in place as long as possible.


Name of Recipe:
Perfect remedy for Mal di Fianco and for those who cannot urinate, due to stones or renella

Aims of Remedy:
This will make someone urinate even if they have not done so for several days, even if they are on the verge of death within 1/2 and hour. It will dissolve stones within ten or twelve days.

How to take:
The patient must drink the mixture on an empty stomach in the morning, fast for another 4 hours. Give daily to dissolve stones.


How to take:
Give the mixed powders to the patient, enough to cover a scudo in white wine, on empty stomach in the morning. Give more often for stones and renella.


Name of Recipe:
Last remedy for stones, whether in the kidney or bladder.

How to take:
Give half a glassful of the mixture,, add a pinch of sugar, some mel rosato, and the powders.

Comment:
The fluid obtained from the dung can also be used to wash stains from cloth, or the face.
He used this remedy on a milanese gentleman who passed so much stone it must have been the size of a big egg and another live a big bea, which was very painful as it passed out of his penis.
The water and powders will keep a long time, except for those made with lemon and radishes and wine.


Name of Recipe:
For those who spit blood having ruptured a vein in the chest.

How to take:
Drink the juice in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before bed.


Name of Recipe:
For the tisichi, (short-winded, those with a cough in lungs)

How to take:
Give it to the patient every morning for nine days. I

Comment:
It will also help a thin person to put on weight.
Note, one of the English names of the herb used is cough-wort, and in Italian Tossilaggine.


Name of Recipe:
For pain in the lumbar region, pain in the fianco, or kidneys.

How to take:
Spread the mixture over a linen cloth and place over the painful area.


Name of Recipe:
For the bite of a rabid dog and the madness  which afflicts them. person.

How to take:
Put a small amount (half a walnut shell) in the wine and drink, and three doses will cure the person.


Name of Recipe:
To remove the carne tristo che nasce nel naso. (Dead flesh which grows in the nose: Mucus?)


Name of Recipe:
For someone who has fallen from up high and may have an internal injury.

How to take:
Give to the patient once or twice, best when accompanied by blood letting. Take with wine if the patient can't drink oil. If the patient has a bruise, apply the oglio rosato, mortelle flowers and dry rose petals.


How to take:
Put the plaster on the affected area twice a day and they will sweat away. Once healed, wash often with hot wine for ten to fifteen days.


How to take:
Drink the wine and testicle powder mixture for twenty days and the patient will bring up all the waste inside and heal.


Aims of Remedy:
To determine whether a woman will conceive

How to take:
Give the mixture to the woman to drink, on empty stomach and put her in a hot bath. If she feels pain in her belly, she will conceive, if not, she will never conceive.


Name of Recipe:
To remove a goitre from the throat within 50 days

How to take:
Give to patient thrice daily, morning, noon and night. The patient can ony eat bread made of barley, and wine, pure wine, no water, no herbs, fish, garlic, soups, etc. Begin this regime when the moon is full, until the next moon is waxing, until the moon has waned twice, (45 days) and s/he will be healed.


Name of Recipe:
To remove a goitre in the thoat  more easily than no.60

How to take:
Take a spoonful of apple and dry chamomile morning and evening. Put in the mouth and allow it to dribble down until healed and follow a good dietary regime, as in no.60.


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe for removing a lump in the throat.

How to take:
Mix the dried pulverised millepede in wine or on an apple, and give to the patient as much as would cover a scudo, for 21 days, starting with the waning moon, and following a good dietary regime.


Name of Recipe:
To make the skin shrink after a goitre  has been removed.

Aims of Remedy:
For Skin to return to normal after removal of a lump

How to take:
Spread what remains on the affected skin.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Inflammation of the jaws and larynx, which leads to breating difficulties and difficulty in swallowing.

How to take:
Spread the ingredients over the affected area, healing will occur within three hours.


How to take:
Put in the mouth on the painful area, or mix with the honey and the flour and put in the mouth, allowing it to run down.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Infiammazione delle fauci e della laringe, che rende difficolta nel resporeare ed inghiottire. (See Vocabolario A)


How to take:
Spread some on a piece of chamois leather (?) or tela and place over affected area.


How to take:
The mixture is eaten with honey before bed and before rising. Can also use with an oil for external application.  The oil is smeared on the affected areas, leaving hemp straw (stoppa di canape) on top for three or four days, then repeating the process.


Comment:
The virtues of the third water produced are: 
1) It can be placed on a fresh wound, no other medication will be needed. 
2) It can be used on old wounds, cancers, Lupa, noli me tangere, and all other recent ailments, bathing them every three days. 
3) Anyone with carbone,  (Carbuncle?) antrace, (a kind of venemous inpostume, like a carbuncle, engendered of false and corrupt blood, and very mortal if it be in the emunctory parts.) Ampolle (blisters) di Santo Antonio o Santo Stefano, or other mal pestilentiale, this will mortify them after washing in this water. (Dictionary b) 
4) Every ailment of the eye, putting a drop morning and evening for 15 days. 
5) For stones in the kidneys or vessica, drink three drops with a little white wine or red bean soup. 
6) For hemmarroids, or maravele, washing them daily. 
7) Mal di matre, o matrone. Drink a spoonful with chicken soup, or cabbage soup, when there are pains. 
8) For  bathing pulled nerves, to relax them.
9) To heal lippitudine d'occhi and weeping eyes, a drop daily in the morning. 
10) For every rogna, tigna (skin and scalp conditions) and similar ills. Wash daily.
11) To heal ear problems with a drop morning and evening. 12) It heals poisonous bites, washing them. 
13) It kills worms, smearing on the nostrils and drinking a little. 
15) Every infected wound, scrofole, male di Santo Egidio, or skin disease, can be washed in this.  
For every cold ailment, to restore the old, those consumed with hunger,  illness or dolor d'animo.  It conserves radical moisture, natural heat, keeps youth, health and long life.


Name of Recipe:
To Heal the Mad (A sanare un pazzo, secreto moto raro, e perfettissimo, cosi se sia per haverli dato volta il cervello, come per fatture, (magia, stregoneria) o per qual si voglia cagione.

Ailment/Condition (E):
Brain disorders  (madness, memory loss, etc.)

How to take:
Give the clysters each morning, for four mornings, then give the medicine before bed, in early evening, tepid. If patient resists, tie him/her down and force open mouth and pour it down, as with horses. Keep patient warm for half an hour, don't allow them out even in summer. When this medicine is evacuated give the salve. 
This must be rubbed on the patient all over the body, neck to feet, rubbing in well to penetrate the body, for one month, morning and evening. On the third or fourth day cauterize the junction of the head with a burning  iron button and on top of the cauterised area, place some cloth greased with hog's lard, leaving it for eight or ten hours. Then put a cece (chickpea) wrapped in ivy leaves,on top of which place a piece of thin shoe sole, tied on with a piece of canvas,  placing it under the chin or on top of the head, so it stays. Change the chickpea morning and evening. If the patient is still not better after four months, do the clysters again, the same medicine, the same salve, and without doubt, god will heal him/ her.

Comment:
The following dietary regime is advocated:fowl, castrato e vitella, roasts for the first days. And boiled meats.soups with amito, biete, malve, brodetti and fresh eggs, spices in the meats. Eat in tarts/pies or soups; bettonica, salvia, maggiorana, menta. Beware of cose false, agre, legume, cipolle, et agli, drink watered white wine, make him carry scents, listen to music and have someone talk to him saldamente, and  reminds him to stay sane, (gli dia buoni ricordi di star savio, et lo riprenda dele pazzie quando le fa, o le dice.) Who will draw him out of his madness when he says or does mad things. A beautiful woman's authority is very helpful in this, reminding him to live wisely, and they have considerable strength to quieten moods, and good memories in the brain, and with these one who is angry, furious, sad, upset by anger, by shame, by jealousy or pride or from other passions can be restrained: as long as they are the beginnings and degress of madness, and according to who has the authority to control/rule (signoreggiare)  the sufferer.


Aims of Remedy:
These heal head aches old and new, purge the brain, clear the vision, improve the memory, restore colour to the face, and are useful for many other infirmities.


How to take:
First wash affected area with the wine mixture. Then dry and pace a cloth with the salve on it over the affected area.


Name of Recipe:
To mature boils and sores around the penis or on women's breasts

How to take:
Place some saffron where you want the boil to burst, and place the salve on top, changing the dressing morning and evening. Once the boil has ruptured bathe with oglio rosato and egg yolk for a day, then with drying unguents, if you see any pus. Then use the aloe salve.


Name of Recipe:
To prevent a boil or sore from forming in its early stages.

How to take:
Put it still hot on the boil, and on top of the staw put the half lemon and tie it on, and change this dressing in the morning. The boil will soon disappear.


How to take:
Squeeze the wound with the fingers, washing away the blood and put the parchment smeared with the salve on top and tie firmly, wrapping round with a bandage.

Comment:
This secret I learned from a Neapolitan surgeon.


Name of Recipe:
Secret from India for much of the human body

How to take:
When Eaten: Heals any head aches, improves the hearing, and memory, heals virtigo, comfots the brain, helps the eyesight. 
Smearing the juice on eyes  helps the sight,.
Taking the powder or as water it purifies the stomach, throat, phlegm improves appetite, increases the chest, consumes catarrah, heals stomach ache. 
As wine it dries up bad humours, eaten, it heals the spleen, stones, and making clysters with urine, heals wind, any impostumes, and plague, drinking the juice or powder as soon as you feel ill.
Put the bambace bianca (white cotton) when it has flowered, on a wound or cut, and will heal it in three days. Helps the breath and chewed, gives good gums and teeth, it heals the pains of the womb, leightens the heart, and clysters made with the urine of a little boy heals epilepsy, mal di fianco. Drunk with hot white wine, four hours before the fever develops, and covering the patient so he sweats, and if the intestines fall out, cook with wine, and wash. Also useful against snake bites and poison.


How to take:
Drink on empty stomach in morning and before sleeping, two or three times.


Aims of Remedy:
For any tightening of the chest, also cleans the stomach, improves the voice, and gives good face colour.

How to take:
You can use this conserve all winter when going to bed, or in the morning. It is always useful, take two or three spoonfuls at a time.  It is something which should always be in the house. You can add sugar powder, o pennitti, if it is drunk more often.

Comment:
(At this point this volume is missing ten pages, so now references are taken from the 1557 edition published in Lucca by Vincenti Busdrago.  Infact, it turns out that the relevant pages are in the wrong place)


Name of Recipe:
Secret for clearing up coughs, through the soles of the feet.

How to take:
Rub the mixture on the soles of the feet in front of a fire, until you almost burn them,. Then put on warm shoes of hot canvas and go to sleep, first rubbing this mixture on your back. This mixture can also be drunk in water and will help the stomach and head.


Name of Recipe:
To heal old wounds which are suppurating/infected

How to take:
Place the cloth over affected area, and to help it pull, add the difensivo, which is spread around the wound. Keep the infected area near the fire and don't stop, even though you will feel great pain whilst the flesh is being eaten. When this is done put on a cloth with butiro and leave it for a day.


How to take:
Give a spoonful to the patient, who will heal immediately.


How to take:
Throw on a hot brazier, to scent the room .


How to take:
Put a spoonful of powder into vinegar in a glass, heat a little and drink. Cover the patient and leave to sleep a long time. He will sweat until he is healed. If the fever comes with chills, replace vinegar with wine.


How to take:
Within four hours of the appearance of ailment, the patient drinks the mixture hot and goes to bed, well covered so s/he sweats.


How to take:
When you suspect it is needed, (il tempo di sospetto) take a half-glass of the wine daily, every morning before leaving the house on an empty stomach, but eat a walnut first and a fig and two or three leaves of ruta.


How to take:
Spread it on the linen. Make a small hole in the middle, take a cloth smeared with that mortificativo, put it over the hole of the empiastro, then make another plaister without a hole, which you place over the first, so the mortificativo is in the middle, and leave for 24 hours, changing only the middle mortificativo, leave another 24 hours. Anoint with pork lard, or chicken fat to soften it, (what, the wound or the plaister?) Once the plaister is removed, put a cloth with unsalted pork lard and the dead flesh with escape, like a pomicelo, and a hole will remain, which should be eradicated with ointment or Diacolognia magna. When the flesh regrows, put allume arsa on it for 24 hours and the unguent.


How to take:
Eat the ingredients on empty stomach, every day for a month. You must be cheerful.


How to take:
Take on alternate days, as much of one as of the other, a good fingerful in a glass.


How to take:
Give a glassful to drink to the patient three mornings on empty stomach.

Comment:
This was tried in Venice, 1504, by Mattio calegaro at Santa sofia, who tried this on himsef and his wife.


How to take:
When the person feels afflicted,  take a container of theriac and swallow it;  take a chestnut sized amount and put it on the ulcer, rubbing hard with the theriac around it. Cut the bird in half whilst alive and place half on the ulcer whilst it cools until it turns green and the theriac red. You will see a green fluid run out of the dove, which is the poison which it has extracted from the ulcer. Then with the plaster you will reduce the ulcer and heal it.


How to take:
Under 10's take 1/3rd dramm
10-20, 1/2 a dramm
over 20, 1 dramm.
Plait the herb cinquefoglia, wrap into a ball, wrap with linen and put in hot ashes for four misereri, pull the cloth out and cut the ball of leaves in four (in croce) and place on the painful area.


How to take:
Eat the three ingredients in times when plague is suspected


How to take:
Take two spoonfuls of the powder in white wine within six hours of feeing ill. I would add some musk.


How to take:
Give two thirds of a glass of this to drink hot, within six hours, stay in bed well covered till he sweats.


How to take:
Giving a glassful two fingers high, for many days, cover the patient in bed.


Aims of Remedy:
To make the patient sweat out the poison

How to take:
Sig. Ottaviano said that M Francesco de gli A|berti took three eigths of these pills, with good wine, and gave to the afflicted person as soon as possible, put him to bed and covered him well.


How to take:
When someone feels ill with plague, give two 1/2 oz of the mixture, which will cause him to expel the illness through the stomach, or voiting, or forming pustules, which should be burst as taught elsewhere in this book.


Name of Recipe:
For killing the carbuncles, Languinaia, and every other pestilential pustule.

How to take:
Put the mixture on the carbuncle, and it will pull out the poison.


Name of Recipe:
For freckles or measles-or perhaps pustles related to plague? (Petecchie)

How to take:
Give to the patient one glass morning and evening, hot, and cover well so s/he sweats.

Comment:
Given the position in the book, amongst so many plague remedies, it is probably boils/marks connected to the plague.


How to take:
Give to the patient within 12 hours. If the patient is a boy, give 12 dram with 1/2 oz of the waters, and the same amount of theriac. If possible, the patient should be bloodlet before taking the medicine,


Comment:
Perhaps these are scented balls to be carried around-use is not described, so perhaps taken for granted.


Comment:
The style of the recipe has been changing, over the last 10-15 recipes: this may just be the edition: for example,  the way of using latin, of saying 'item,' before each ingredient. And not escribing what to do. Interesting to know why. Was he getting bored!?


How to take:
When someone feels the plague coing on, or poisoned, smear this oil around the heart  and pulses and veins near the pulses.


How to take:
Every morning take an amount equal to the weight of two coins, putting it in two or three fingers of watered white wine in a gass.

Comment:
This recipe was prooved in England, in the great plague of 1348, which covered nearlly the whole world. Noone who used this remedy fell ill.


Name of Recipe:
Last remedy for those afflicted by plague.

How to take:
Crush seeds and give to the patient in 1/2 glass of white wine, cover the patient, so he sweats, change their shirt and sheets, and other bedding if possible, if not, just shirt and sheets

Comment:
Also useful for the petecchie, carboni, antraci, ampolle di Santo. Stefano or Santo Antonio. I would suggest that every one finds a place in their city; in the earth, gardens, or courtyards, where they can cultivate ivy for this purpose.


Name of Recipe:
For healing plague, removing poison from anguinaia, or carbone, o antrace, or whatever the growth.

How to take:
After placing the chicken on affected area, smear theriac on the area, and take some of the medicines by mouth described in this book, especailly grains of ivy, or laurel or Bay.


Name of Recipe:
Advice for protecting onself from the plague in dangerous times.

How to take:
In order to prevent the body being full of sad humours, and corruption, it is important not to eat too much, especially heavy or  foods which are 'fumosi.' And to purge oneself as often as possible with cassia, or pills like masticine, Aloe, tartaro di botte, which has been powdered and put in hot water. Then drying the water, as you do to make salt, Keep it and add 3 oz of this with 1 lb of sugar rosato and take a good spoonful in the morning,. This keeps the body lubricated and clean. Those without sugar rosato take tartaro , crush and dissolve in meat broth or cabbage water, till all dissolves, throw away the remains and drink the soup, which should be drunk daiy or alternate days. It is also useful to eat foods which purify the blood, like buglossa, boragine, cicoria, lattuche, etc. 
Never get too hungry , or too full. Take one of the preventive remedies  described above, every morning. And two hours before eating take another of the preservatives, like rue with figs and nuts or spoonful of lemonjuice, . Aso use it in foods, sauces, after meals. Use the seme del cedro confettato with sugar, as we do with coriander and almonds, which is excellent aginast poisons. Aso, eat cedro, the pith and medolla with a little sugar on it, with meat and breat as we eat limoncelli. 
Morning and evening, bathe the pulses with the salve at 1)
Wear perfumes, in shirts and hankerchieves, in the hair and beard, in crowns, and pendents, and scented balls in the hands. 
Keep the house as clean as possible of dirt, especially from urine and excrement, keeping latrines and commodes clean and closed. Do not keep spalliere, carpets of woollen clothes if possible.  The rich perfume their homes with noble perfumes, which I will explain in the next book. The poor keep branches of laurel, rosmary, juniper, cypress and when possible, burn them in the house  expecially morning and evening. Orange and lemon peel too. Storace calamita and laudano are not costly, and make excelent perfumes. 
As for the spirit, it must be considered that sadness, unhappiness, melancholy corrupt the blood and humors, debilitating the heart, offending the spirits, weakening the nature. On the other hand, happiness, dilates and enlarges the pores and heart, opening the way too much to the bad qualities in the air. This is why when an evil person whio have spirits, and their breath corrupted by envy, when they praise someone they move closer, and then offend them, aking them have head ache or heart ache, because when one is praised, their pores are dilated, so the evil infects the area nad passes immediately to offend him. Which is why when we praise someone we say, god bless you, god preserve you from ills, to remind him that we prias with jealousy, and remind him that his body is in danger, so he can withdraw and close his pores and the heart, so they won't receive this poison so easily. Thus, in times of plague, it is important to avoid too much wine which makes people merry. So it is best to stay calm, serene, with pleasing conversations, waks, honest entertainment, avoiding excessive coitus, reminding oneself that a stong person will neither hold life in low esteem, yet will not be too afraid of death


Name of Recipe:
For preparing bitters of lemons, a plague protection, to use as described in 107.

How to take:
Take this before meals and eat with food as a sauce or favouring.


How to take:
Take this water every morning in a glass, mixing with a litte white wine and the ingredients at 2). Enough to cover a scudo. This heals dropsy, (idropsia) after month for a chronic case, in 10 to 15 days for a new case.
Drinking without tartar, but with white wine, daily, cures epilepsy, emicranea, vertigine, occhi lagrimosi, brings back a woman's milk, increases the male seed and helps them to generate. 
Washing the head with this, with a little lessia, and wrapping a towel around to dry, heals every sort of tigna.-head scurf. 
Washing wounds and pustlules, it cleans them. 
Drinking some every morning with white wine, prevents any kind of bad humour from entering the body.
Putting some in the mouth morning and evening washes the teeth and gums.
Can also be taken to prevent plague, half a glass on empty stomach.

Comment:
Taken with other ingredients, cures: Dropsy, epilepsy, vertigo, emicranea, weeping eyes, increases breast milk, male seed, clears head scurf, washing wounds, washing teeth/gums


Name of Recipe:
For those overheated and cold, those who have had too much intercourse with women.

How to take:
Drink a glass every morning. It will also help to fatten up those who are too thin.


Name of Recipe:
For leprosy,  or those whose faces are 'infocato',  covered with blisters, or ugly through liver and stomach conditions.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Whether from thick humors or another reason

How to take:
Whilst hot, place on the affected area, and it will heal and remove the pain.


How to take:
Wash frequently in the liquid, eat soups made with the first two herbs.


Name of Recipe:
To prevent drunkeness in those who drink.

Aims of Remedy:
To prevent getting inebriated even if you drink pure heavy wine all day. Excellent for those with a weak head, or those who have to go to a meal or party at which strong wines will be drunk.

How to take:
Before eating, about 1/4 hour, eart 2 or 3  peache stones and ordinary bitter almonds. Then drink half a glass of olive oil, or sweet almond oil, then eat and drink as much as you wish, and you won't get drunk. For those who feel heavy in the head and stomach after eating and drinking,  take cavoli) cabbage juice or verze (?) juice with a little sugar.


Name of Recipe:
For a bad bang on a limb which is not however broken.

How to take:
Smear cold raw honey  on the bang and tie it on with a piece of cloth.


Cause/Description of ailment:
When the seed flows out of people on its own without their wanting it.

How to take:
Take half a glass or so, adding some sugar, and warm up. Drink each morning in bed for 3 or 4 days. Wipe the kidneys with the rose salve.


Name of Recipe:
For bones diseased and corrupted by french disease and ulcerated skin.

How to take:
First wash sores with the rose water, then bathe the affected bones with the water and it will clearn and heal it, eating the flesh around the sores. Put the ground celidona on top.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Will comfort the brain, resist putrification in the air at times of plague.

Aims of Remedy:
For perfuming the hair, beard, putting on the hands, gloves, in the water for washing shirts, hankerchiefs.

How to take:
The remains of the ambra and storace can be made into scented balls to carry or place amongst the linens, make crowns, or burn in the room.

Comment:
It can be made more cheaply without the musk, ambra


Comment:
Pleasantly scented and 'signorile', at virtually no cost, fara grandissima fattione nel profumare i guanti, etc.


Name of Recipe:
Oil of Myrrh Which keeps the skin soft, Plump, shiny.

Aims of Remedy:
Which keeps the skin soft, Plump, shiney and lovely.


Name of Recipe:
How to make Oils which do not go rancid.


Comment:
you take soap, and add scents to it, therefore, about making scented soaps. No uses given


Name of Recipe:
Good scented powder to wear or put in chests


Aims of Remedy:
These are held in the mouth to improve the breath


Name of Recipe:
Perfect little sticks for cleaning the teeth


How to take:
'Put the focacette in the fire, and they will burn slowly, producing a wonderful scent.'


Name of Recipe:
A lovely way to dress gloves which costs little and lasts a long time.


Name of Recipe:
A lovely sevetto for perfuming gloves or for annointing the hands


Name of Recipe:
Perfect perfume for rooms, clothes, sheets and other things

How to take:
This will will scent the whole room sweetly. 
You can use this perfume to scent panni, o drappi, . Put the panni, or whatever you like, in a chest which has no holes. Divide the clothes on both sides of the chest, leaving in the middle a place for a padelletta, o cocchiara,  or something 'con suo fuoco' which has the rinds in it and place under the lid of the chest. Close the chest and leave the perfume to burn and wait a long time before re-opening the chest. Turn the clothes and put more perfume and repeat as before. "havrete una cosa tanto signorile, che non si potria dir piu'. The chest will stay scented, so whenever you put clothes in, they are scented. If you wish, you can put some canestrele to hold the clothes, or cushions, or sacchettini di rose.


Name of Recipe:
Useful secret for removing stains from cloth, fine or not.


Comment:
This is the way to purge it, and remove the smell, and thus purged it wil stay sweet and useful for every mixture, making scented balls, putting in alberelli with liquors, which keep it liquid for the hands. And it is the method used in Soria, whence its name, sapone Samaschino sempice, since there is also Damaschino composed with scents, as described above.


Name of Recipe:
For removing stains from cloth of gold , silk, wool, linen, ciambellotto and other such things


Name of Recipe:
For making candies or comfites from lemons, oranges or of every other fruit in honey.


Name of Recipe:
Purifying and preparing the honey or sugar for conserving lemons and other fruits


Name of Recipe:
Quince conserve -Valencian and Genoese style and they are made in hard pizze or focaccias.


Name of Recipe:
Aubergine conserve-Genoan style with sugar : known in Lombardy as pomi disdegnosi.


Name of Recipe:
To make sugar paste for making every kind of fruit


Name of Recipe:
Sweet compote of melons and pepones (kind of melon, gourd or pumpkin)


Name of Recipe:
Orange-peel comfits: which can be done all year round but best in May, when they are big and the peels thick


Comment:
Be careful, that these conserves need to be strongly spiced, in order to benefit the stomach. It is very useful. 
(Tutte queste confettioni vogiono essere forti di specie, per lo rimedio dello stomaco, ed e molto utile.)


Aims of Remedy:
Comforts the stomach, makes the breath pure


Name of Recipe:
Scented and precious water for the face, with which hankerchieves can be made to dry the face, which make the skin white, and coloured, and the more you rub, the more beautiful it becomes, and they last for 6 months.


Name of Recipe:
Waters which gives colour to a pale skin.


Name of Recipe:
Waters to make one look twenty or twenty-five years old


Name of Recipe:
Water to beautify the face and elsewhere


Name of Recipe:
Water to make skin white and remove sun-burn


Name of Recipe:
Another water to make one look fifteen years old

How to take:
When you go to bed wash with this and leave it and in the morning wash in tepid well water.


Aims of Remedy:
To make even eighty year old women look fifteen years old.

How to take:
When you wish wash with this, leave to rest and then rub with 'una pezza di scarlato.' A piece of scarlatto*. Et la donna che si lava il viso con detta acqua , se fusse ben vecchia di anni sessanta, le fara in poco spatio di tempo la pelle del volto, che parra una giovane di quindici anni.'


How to take:
When you wish to use, put your finger in the hole and rub the face with una pezza sottile.


Ailment/Condition (E):
Skin; freckles, wrinkles, blemishes, tatoos


Name of Recipe:
To prepare vine water, otherwise known as tears of the vine. (lagrime delle vite.)


Aims of Remedy:
To make the skin white and remove wrinkles from the face.


How to take:
Keeping it on your face for 8 days it changes the skin and rennovates it.
When you go to bed, put it on your face, neck and chest, also in the morning, allowing it to dry. Everytime you wish to use it, mix it together and leave. "Avvertisce di non tirarla via innanzi al tempo, perche guasteria troppo la pelle, ma bisogna lasciarla cosi per otto giorni, e se ti paresse che bruciasse, e che tirasse la pela, non la rimovere, lasciala far l'operation."(not clear about first part)*
See ingredients form for instructions on how to make the mixture for removing the paste.  Having done so; 
Pour it boiling hot into a boccale, put this on a bench so that you can 'fare stufa al volto,' with your face over the steam, tenendo bene stufato intorno al capo, e il petto, wherever you put the paste, so you sweat in the face. When you start to sweat take a litte of the water and let it drip, and put some bread into it, and rub the paste off with the bread. Then wash in fresh water and dry, having prepared some acqua lambiccata and wash the face with this 4-6 times . You can also use una pezza di lino bagnata in the water. Your face will be soft and lovely.
Do not go out in the air uncovered for 8 days after this, nor go close to the fire, because the skin will be very thin, so it could burn or ruin easily.

Comment:
Well, it contains argento vivo, so it probably would hurt!! This advice compares with elsewhere, where I'm sure he says NOT to use things which can damage the skin.
Note the use of soaked bread to rub the face, or a piece of linen.


Name of Recipe:
To make 'argentata' (a foundation) which makes the face white, red and shiny.

How to take:
When you wish to use it, wash the face well, then put the argentata subtly, (discretamente) and leave it to dry. You can if you wish, put roughe on this, with la pezzetta di levante, or rosso di scodeletti di Valentia, or in water, as I will teach the most perfect ones below.

Comment:
Used by most of the gentlewomen of italy, although many don't know how to make it well.

One of the waters produced is ' perfect for scab/mange'.


Name of Recipe:
To give shine and colour over the 'argentata.'


How to take:
Once you have put this salve on the skin, "fa dal rosso con la grana, et col verzino, che meglio che'l verzino schietto."**


How to take:
The face can be washed in this, it can also be drunk which scents the breath.


Name of Recipe:
To remove freckles and make the skin beautiful

How to take:
Use the hardened 'medicine' to rub on your face over two or three days to make the skin lovely.


How to take:
Put the mixutre on your face, being careful not to let any go in your eyes or it will burn you.


Name of Recipe:
To remove ringworm from the face, or elsewhere

How to take:
Rub the ring-worm three or four times a day with those tiny flakes of romice and and place the in the vinegar every hour.


Name of Recipe:
To expel grubs and worms living in the skin

Ailment/Condition (E):
Parasites; external- fleas, ticks, lice, grubs


Name of Recipe:
Water to remove every stain and mark on the hands of craftsmen or those burned by the sun.

How to take:
Wash the hands in this and leave a while, then wash again. It will remove all stains and is effective against scabies.

Comment:
interesting this reference to artegiani, and their stained hands.


How to take:
First the woman washes her face well in distilled water. With a piece of scarlatto, washed in the water she rubs her face, chest and wherever she wants, . Then she lies on the bed and holds the damp cloth over her face for a while. When ready, she gets up and can do this once every 8 or 15 days, or every month. Meanwhilst she can use other good water, such as bean flower, zucche, melons, frassinella, roots of white lily, radiche di serpentaria and so on, so long as she doesn't use solimato, or biacca at all. It will have a wonderful effect, making her skin naturally lovely, keeping her youthful fresh and 'vaghissima.'


Name of Recipe:
Noble Water for washing the face, neck, chest

How to take:
It can be used continuously and does no damage.

Comment:
Can be used by women of every degree: it gives them a natural look and doesn't damage the teeth.  (La puo usare ogni Donna d'ogni grado', che fa la carne bellissima e non offende i denti e non par che la donna dia imbellettata, o lisciata, ma che cosi sia di sua natura.)

Note the emphasis on not damaging the skin/teeth. And on 'natural' beauty.


How to take:
This is the loveliest blusher possible. It must be put on the face with a pezzetta di scaratto, or raso cremesino, rubbing wel, so the skin heat up and the rouge penetrates well. You can add scents as desired.


Name of Recipe:
Another blusher for the face, easier and less costly

Comment:
Note the comments for how poor women make this.


Aims of Remedy:
comforts the brain and memory, makes hair grow, go blond .

How to take:
It can be used for six months,just leave and use when wished. Scoop up the lessia, without taking any bits and heat it up to wash yourself. Put a little myrrh and cinnamon on when you use it.

Comment:
Medicinal, then, if it comforts the brain.


Name of Recipe:
A lessia for washing the head, for those who want black hair

How to take:
I warn you that when you wash with these lessie which are designed to dye the hair, do not rub the face and neck with it, or it will dye it. So having thrown the lessia over y our head, wash the face with lessia chiara, water, or white wine.


Name of Recipe:
Oil for the hair, to keep it blond, long and shiny

How to take:
Smear the oil on a comb, and the woman combs her hair in the sun,  or by putting a hot 'pannicello' over her head   and leaving it.


Name of Recipe:
How to lighten your hair without going in the sun

How to take:
Take the lessia you usualy use for washing your hair, and add 2-3 oz of allume di rocca crudo, crushed, and wash the hair. Without drying, smear the warm liquor over the hair. Wrap your head in a hot cloth, and sit down for a while. Wash the ointment away with hot lessia, using a soap, and rinse the head and hair with some hot white wine, wrap in towels or dry in the sun or by the fire. Finally put our oil, or olio di gelsomini on the hair to prevent it from splitting/breaking. Do this every 15 days or month, you will have lovely hair, like gold thread.

Comment:
Then there is a longish section pointing out that every woman must use her discretion about how strong her lessia is, how long she leaves the mixture on for, and so on.


How to take:
Wash  with hot water and the hairs will fall away.  Rub the affected area with oglio rosato o violato.


How to take:
Wash yourself with hot water, smear the oil on ,leave a whilte, then wash away with hot water, and bathe with oglio rosato and violato afterwards.


How to take:
This recipe is preceeded by a warning.
Firstly I warn you that you must always perform depilations when the moon is waning. It is best to remove them with salves or oils than with mollette (pincers, tweezers) because this is a violent action, 'far violenza alla carne' and it stimulates the blood, thus enlarging the pores or holes which they grow from, making them grow bigger and badly. It is always best to annoint the place simmediatley with cod oils, like rosato and violato. Also, salves make with orpimento often leave the skin burning, because they have been made badly, too stong or kept on for too long, or put on dry skin which has not been washed or oiled. 
Then there is another similar piece of text, which adds some medical views as to why often these preparations do not work. 'o non fanno profitto acuno per la potenza della natura nel fare il suo corso, e mandar fuori per le vie  sue le superflita del corpo, o insieme col pelo…."


Name of Recipe:
To make a cloth for removing hairs from the face, neck and hands

How to take:
Wash the face before bed, with tepid water, rubbing well with a cloth. Dry and then take one of the clothes and heat it by the fire until the mixture is liqud, and immediatley place it on the face, or wherever you which to remove the hairs, press well, and leave it the whole night. In the morning you go to the mirror, or have your servant or someone else take one part of the cloth, llifting it and pulling it away swiftly, and all the hairs will have gone. Wash off any remaining salve  with hot water and semola, rubbing with cloth. Wash the face in acqua vita or white wine, or gentle distilled water then use your other face waters.


Name of Recipe:
Extremely rare recipe, used by Grand Black Ladies To prevent their children from having underam hair, or elsewhere. Because they don't like body hair.

Aims of Remedy:
To prevent growth of body hair, esp. underarms.

How to take:
When a girl is born, they immediately get ready a piastra di oro fino, or a ducat, or a ring, or some such thing and they put it in the fire until it become red hot, without melting, and using "una tenaglia" (fire irons, or pincers) they put it straight away on the area where they wish to prevent hairs from growing, immediately rubbing rose or violet oil over this.  Twenty-four hours later they repeat the process. Hairs wil never grow there, or if they do, they will easily be removed with salves, or the hot gold. I myself have tried this remedy out on several gentlwomen, to remove hairs from their face and it worked, ' tenuto per grandissimo secreto.' But the gold must be fine, because a burn with pure gold leaves no mark, unlike every other metal.

Comment:
This secret I learned in Soria in 1521 from a grand lady, whose daughter I healed, with God's grace, "che l'havea dato volta il cervello, e conveniva tenerla legata." (The rest of the title) 
Interesting little detail, which is otherwise out of place: is it 
intended as a link between hairyness and being closer to beasts?
And, how often did black women become 'grand signore'?
Was this woman one? 

He ends his instructions with this commentary. "I have kept this a closely guarded secret for a long time, and I have often been offered money and gifts for it, but haven't wanted to teach it' "che in questo libro la eta nella qual mi trovo, et il piu caldo fervor dela carita mi hanno mosso a far comune a ciascuno universalmente, a sola laude e gloria del fattor del tutto, che con tanta sapienza, amore, e bonta ha data la vitue nelle cose da lui create."


Name of Recipe:
To make Spanish cloths for painting women's faces


Name of Recipe:
Another Spanish Cloth for Painting women's faces


How to take:
Wash the head or beard with the lessia, which must not be so strong that it hurts you; spread the paste on the beard or hair, when tepid, so it penetrates well and leave a while. Then wash it away with lessia dolce and then hot water.  The hair or beard will remain black, not red, nor will it split the hairs, or damage the head.

Comment:
Notice that this instruction is for men; there is no change of 'tone' as if most were for women. I think the whole is intended for domestic use generally, mae and female readership.


Name of Recipe:
Noble powder for cleaning the teeth, for closing them, which will make them white and preserve the gums.

How to take:
When you need ot use it, wash the mouth well with water or wine, and then take a cloth and rub the teeth very well with the poweder and finally the mouth.


Name of Recipe:
Reminders about making tooth powders and conserves

How to take:
Mix the  apples with the powder, take a piece of linen and rub the teeth, then wash the mouth well. Do this every eight days, at least.

Comment:
Notice, references to different ingredients for differing clienteles.


How to take:
Use fine white pumice stone, rub the teeth, and this will remove the tartar and make them white


Name of Recipe:
Precious Distilled water for whitening teeth

How to take:
Wash the mouth, dry teeth with a cloth, take a stick or palettina di lentisco, dipped in the water, touch and rub the teeth, and you will feel an astringent sensation on the teeth, and make the white and beautiful. Don't add the cannella, boloarmeno or legno aloe after it has distilled if you prefer a white powder, add them at the beginning.


Name of Recipe:
Three important warnings about keeping teeth beautiful and healthy and preventing bad breath.

How to take:
Firstly, those who don't wash their mouth well after eating will aways have yellow teeth and bad breath. Secondly, those who sleep with their mouth open will also have bad teeth and breath. Thirdly, if you want have good teeth and sweet breath, when you wake in the morning you must clear out the chest and throat well  sputting out all that which has gathered during the night, which helps the head and stomach as well.  Then use a piece of cloth to rub the teeth inside and outside, taking away that residue from foods, and that yellowness which has developed overnight, which is that which yellows the teeth, rots the gums and ruins the breath. It is also useful to chew some grains of gum every morning.


Name of Recipe:
A decotion for washing teeth, to firm the gums, clean them and help the gum to grow back.

Aims of Remedy:
Washing teeth and gums and firming gums.

How to take:
Wash the teeth in this often, and when it suits, keep a little in your mouth. IT preserves your head too, and gives sweet breath.


Name of Recipe:
A cheap easy liquor which can be used to keep your skin smooth, soft and shiny


Name of Recipe:
To remove every kind of mark from the face and keep the skin, thin the skin, remove freckles and keep the skin  looking lovely.

How to take:
Wash the face well with water in which you have soaked semola di frumento o d'orzo, which is better. Rub the face well with a piece of canvas or panno rosso, which is better, then dry with a white towel. Then spalsh the myrrh water and latte vergine on the face and leave without drying. Do this morning and evening and it will work wonders.


Name of Recipe:
Water for the hands and face, making them beautiful


Name of Recipe:
For removing signs or scars left by Mal-Francese

How to take:
Place the cloth over the affected area, and the flesh will quickly heal. If wished, rub in a little liquor of myrrh and latte vergine. (see recipe 271)


Name of Recipe:
Lacca Fina di Grana (A confection made of Chermes)


Name of Recipe:
Another way to dye bones or Ivory, so they look like emeralds


Name of Recipe:
To dye bones Red or azurre or other colours


Comment:
This is what masters of woodworking use to make those lovely dining tables, and other works with painted figures


Name of Recipe:
How to dye Cordovani green, and conci in gala, or foglia


Name of Recipe:
How to dye skins green with azurre lilies


Name of Recipe:
How to dye hog's bristles, for making brushes, or whatever you please


Name of Recipe:
How to dye hog's bristles  yellow, green or azurre or other colours


Name of Recipe:
How to make porporina, which is the colour we use to make gold colour for painting and writing


Name of Recipe:
How to make Lacca di Verzino (Brasilian Lacca)


Name of Recipe:
How to make white tablets to write in with the poynt of a wire, like the account books from Germany


Name of Recipe:
How to make red for writing. (Roset or raddle)


Name of Recipe:
How to gild leather, (Corami) for use as hangings


Name of Recipe:
How to Make a Lovely verzino in four colours


Name of Recipe:
How to make Rosso di Verzino another way


Name of Recipe:
How to make Azurre Ultramarine without lapis lazuli


Name of Recipe:
How to make Green for writing and miniare


Name of Recipe:
How to grind fine gold which can be used for painting and writing


Name of Recipe:
Another way to grind fine gold (with Porporina)


Name of Recipe:
How to make a ground which can be gilded with burnished gold


Name of Recipe:
How to 'laye or settle gold with a single grounde'.


Name of Recipe:
How to make white letters on a black background


Name of Recipe:
How to make green for writing and  painting and miniatures


Name of Recipe:
How to prepare cinaber (vermillion) for writing, limning or painting


Name of Recipe:
Mordent for putting gold over zendado (Sendal, or Taffeta sarcenet JF) canvas or marble


Name of Recipe:
Another mordent for putting gold on metal or iron


Name of Recipe:
How to keep egg whites as long as you need them when preparing cinnabar  or other colours without putting arsenic


Name of Recipe:
To make a mordent or ground 'per fiorire'


Name of Recipe:
Another perfect mordent for the same use


Name of Recipe:
To make ground gold or silver for colours


Name of Recipe:
To make a varnish for gold or other work with colours


Name of Recipe:
To make liquor for making gold colour without gold


Name of Recipe:
Another golden colour for writing for gilding iron, wood, glass, bones and so on


Name of Recipe:
Another liquor for making a gold colour which costs little


Name of Recipe:
To make travelling ink, that is, in powder. When you wish to use it, add wine, water, or vinegar.


Name of Recipe:
To make a writing ink in large quantities with little cost


Name of Recipe:
To make a powder for removing ink which has fallen on books or letters


Name of Recipe:
To make a kind of varnish for paper, whether of kid, sheep or bambacina .


Name of Recipe:
To make an ink for putting lines in books or on paper which can be removed


Name of Recipe:
To dye marbles, alabasters in azurre or paonazzo (purplish blue)


Name of Recipe:
To make green water for cloths which will be kept for making colours when needed


Name of Recipe:
To make oricello, which is a colour which can be used for dying cloths of paonazzo, known in very regions of Italy


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make oricello without the herb


Name of Recipe:
For making sublimate of mercury, (Argento Vivo) that is, making the common sublimate found in spetierie, used by gold-smiths, Alchemists and by women, and in medicine.

Comment:
That is, to make commune soimato used in the spetierie, used by godsmiths, Alchemists, women and in many medical recipes.


Name of Recipe:
To make cinnabar (vermillion) and make 'loaves' for 100 , 200 lbs, like those which come from Germany


Comment:
A very long introduction. Says that the ancients used it in medicine and is used by gold and silver smiths. Women also use it a great deal to improve their looks, because it whitens, refines and cleans the skin, is not poisonous or damaging to the skin or teeth. Then describes the kinds known, and how to tell whether it is counterfeited,


Name of Recipe:
The truest way to cast medals and other kinds of rilevo basso.


Name of Recipe:
How to reduce all the 'earths'' so they are very fine.


Name of Recipe:
To make la maestra for soaking or wetting these earths


Name of Recipe:
To make luto Sapientiae Perfettissimo ('Lutes' were used to as stoppers of glass vessels, see PHP: also, 'Luto' can refer to a kind of earth.( JF)


Name of Recipe:
The instruments it is useful to keep around and in order for the casting of medals. (l'arte del gitto)


Name of Recipe:
How to make forms with liquid clay (creta) and a brush


Name of Recipe:
How to bleach medals or other new works, and clean old silver


Name of Recipe:
How to do the same thing (gild iron with water)


Name of Recipe:
How to dye iron like copper, or to gild silver


Name of Recipe:
A water or dye to put under real or counterfeit diamonds (made with white sapphires)


Name of Recipe:
How to make white sapphire into diamonds


Name of Recipe:
How to make balaschi  (Ballesses) fatter, for setting in rings


Name of Recipe:
To make copies of rubies or emeralds, as they do in Milan


Name of Recipe:
To make a paste of stones or jewels, like emeralds, rubies, sapphires, which will be one piece only, coloured from within.


Name of Recipe:
To make emeralds and other precious stones


Name of Recipe:
To calcify crystal and calcidonij for putting in the mixtures above, for precious stones


Name of Recipe:
Water to harden the stones described above


Name of Recipe:
How to gild iron, copper and silver as they do in Germany and France


Name of Recipe:
How to remove the quicksilver from gilding, and colour gold perfectly


Name of Recipe:
To make Oil of Sulphuric Acid (Vetriuolo)


How to take:
Rub the teeth with any of the substances mentioned.


Name of Recipe:
To remove spots/freckles/ blemishes  from the face

How to take:
Smear the paste on the face when going to bed and in the morning rub it with butter.


How to take:
Use the water this produces to wash the face in the evening before bed. On rising wash it in the second water.


Name of Recipe:
To make a water which removes blemishes from the face, makes it lovely and shiny, and does not damage the hands or mouth.

How to take:
Wash your hands and face in the water daily. This will leave them white and soft.


Name of Recipe:
Another water which whitens the face and makes it shine


Name of Recipe:
To make a water which will give a rosy face

How to take:
Wash the face in the water in the morning.

Comment:
This is almost the first mention of a rosy face, rather than a white one. Why? Perhaps white means without blemishes, not necessarily pale.


How to take:
When needed, take one and mix with rose water. Wipe the face with it before sleeping and wash from the face in the morning with bean-flower water, or make bran boil in a pot of water and use that.


Name of Recipe:
Another, better white foundation (belletto)


Comment:
Note that this, thanks to the sublimate of argento, if used continuously will make the teeth as black as ever, and ultimately they will fall out, ake the breath smell, and disturb the nerves and brain.


Name of Recipe:
Another white foundation to whiten the face, and give it colour which does not offend as the one above.


Name of Recipe:
Another foundation, called Royal foundation, the best of all

How to take:
Take as much as a grain of wheat, and using the flower water which was put on one side,  rub on the face.


How to take:
With the paste on your face, walk about until you sweat . If you don't the vine and briony will make your skin black


How to take:
Shave the area which you wish to be free of hair with the ointment on the razor.  Or, smear the area with blood of tuna fish.


How to take:
Spread the ixture on the area where you wish hair to grow, and it will.


How to take:
Either comb the hair with a lead comb. Or, put a horn comb in the egg oil and leave until the oil dries, then comb the hair. Doing this repeatedly the hair will turn black.


How to take:
Rinse the hair in the first water, and then smear the hair with the paste made from litargirio.


How to take:
Rub the gall over the eyebrows, and they will disappear.


Name of Recipe:
To dye every kind of metal or stone a golden colour


Name of Recipe:
To make a glue which will hold as well as a nail


How to take:
Take a tench and cook until it dissolves. Wash the stain with that water many times, then take bran and boil in the water and wash the stain with that as well.


Name of Recipe:
To prevent the breasts from growing too big

How to take:
Place the opened fish on the breasts. This will prevent them from growing bigger, and if they are big, will make them shrink, till they look like a virgin's breasts.


Name of Recipe:
To stop a woman's menstrual blood from flowing.

How to take:
Put a zatto (?) (cantaloupe melon?JF) tied with a binding rag, al collo. (Neck, or as in 'neck of the womb'?, i.e. between the legs? (E mettilo al collo a quella donna che patisce tal'infermita, che infra pochi giorni si liberara. "

Comment:
Well, it would stop in a few days anyway!) But perhaps we are talking other kinds of bleeding.


How to take:
Pick them when haf-opened, with a knife by evening. Put them in a gazed jar and seal, and bury in dry sand.


How to take:
Take roses which are just opening, and take a canna * which is still in the ground, cut it a little, so that you can put the rose inside, then close it and leave it. When you want to remove it, cut the canna, put some tepid water and they will be as lovely as in May.


Name of Recipe:
To Remove Natte. (Soft, painless and uncorrupted swellings) (in the groin?)

How to take:
Put a zatto (as two earlier- a melon?) on the lump, and it will soon disappear.


Name of Recipe:
Secret for seeing marvellous things whilst sleeping

How to take:
Take the blood and smear on the temples and go to sleep. You will have marvellous visions. Or, eat the herbs.


How to take:
Put the cerusa and incense into the woman immediately after intercourse. It will help to drink the horse milk, eat the hare intestine or billy goat testicles after she has menstruated.

Comment:
This is not strictly a pessary, but perhaps the incense and cerussa make a ball.


Name of Recipe:
To remove varnish from paper after you have written on it


How to take:
The salve is smeared over the affected area.


How to take:
Put it around the neck of the patient. Also take the donkey nails and burn them, putting them on the scabs.


How to take:
Give the beretino to the patient, with some milk, and s/he will vomit.


Name of Recipe:
To Write Letters On the Flesh which will not disappear (A Tattoo)

How to take:
Go into a very hot stufa and when you are sweating, write what you wish with the ink , then cut the skin with the razor and fill the cut with the soil in the colour you desire. Leave it like this, and the great heat will make the wound close up and the letters will remain.


How to take:
Take a fine nibbed pen and dip it in the mixture and write what you wish on the skin and leave it. Little white marks will appear in the place where you wrote with the water and will never go away.


How to take:
Tie the badger tooth or foot on the right arm , in contact with the flesh. Smear the temples with the partridge bladder so it penetrates and repeat once a month.


How to take:
This is Magic: Take the eye of a black dog, and hold it in your hand. This is good for burglars who wish to steal by night.


Name of Recipe:
To make everything appear black and green by night


How to take:
Wash the hair with the caper water in the sun, and your hair will turn green.


How to take:
When you use it, if the skin is healthy, put a pezzuolo *with salve and leave a hole in the middle. Put a little of the cauterio* and leave it. In three or four hours it will make a wound without pain. It the skin is putrefied, wash the place first with strong vinegar then apply the cauterio.


Name of Recipe:
To make steel which cuts iron as if it were lead


How to take:
Fill the bones with these juices and stuff the tops so nothing drips out. Bury them in horse dung and leave as long as you like, the longer they stay the softer they become.

Comment:
Not clear why you should soften bones, or how you use them, so category (4) is a guess


Name of Recipe:
How to make Melons and similar fruits mature before their season


Name of Recipe:
To Remove marks left by chicken pox (varole)

How to take:
Wash the face in the various waters on alternate days.


How to take:
Wash the hands with the various ingredients mixed with soap.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a scented fat which doesn't ruin the lips or hands and keeps them soft


How to take:
For preventing the hands from getting chapped.

Comment:
Although termed pomade, the ingredients do not include pitch, or resin, or balsam nor does it say to shape into a ball. So perhaps a dense unguent.


Name of Recipe:
To make sure flies don't annoy horses in the summer


Name of Recipe:
How to make leeks grow bigger than is normal


Name of Recipe:
How to have flowers flourishing all year round


Name of Recipe:
How to make Grains and legumes  grow bigger than usual

Comment:
These 'tricks' suggest that there was a call for having winter plants at home: point to the  use of flowers adorning domestic space: and also competition to have the biggest, and earliest plants.


Name of Recipe:
How to stop fruits from rotting on the trees


Name of Recipe:
How to write letters that cannot be read without putting the letter in water


Name of Recipe:
How to write letters which can only be read by the fire


Name of Recipe:
How to make acqua vite receptive to the operation of medicines


Name of Recipe:
How to stop a woman from eating that which is on the table

How to take:
When the dishes are brought to the table put the ozimo beneath them, without the woman knowing and she will eat nothing from those dishes.

Comment:
Not sure why they would want to do this. There is no indication of the reason: health, a joke, etc.?


Name of Recipe:
How to make oil of roses or of other scented herbs


How to take:
Put these in the chests containing cothes and amongst the folds of the clothes and the moths will not touch them, because these are bitter leaves and herbs with a strong smell.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent wild animals from harming you

How to take:
Smear yourself with this and you will be able to move freely wherever there are wild animals, without trouble. When they smell the lion fat they will all flee, and if you meet a wolf or other wild beast, don't run away but go to meet it bravely so it can smell the fat.


How to take:
Rub this on your hands, then pick up snakes and they will not bit you, because of the sharpness of the juice. They will nearly die from the smell.


How to take:
Take the skin of thevuture's right heel and put it on the right foot of the patient, and take the skin of the left heel and put it over the left foot of the patient. Within 1/2 an hour the pain will have gone


Comment:
Why should you want to? What does this link to? Do beasts foretell something?


Name of Recipe:
How to grow a herb with many scents and flavours


Name of Recipe:
How to make a pomander which induces sleep


Name of Recipe:
How to make a sterile woman able to have children


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which dyes copper like gold


Comment:
Does this have medical or arts/crafts use?


Comment:
This is used in cosmetics, maybe medicines too. Check


Name of Recipe:
How to make iron very strong and as lovely as silver


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which will remove letters from paper immediately


Name of Recipe:
How to remove an iron/knife from a wound

How to take:
Put the juice in the wound in the evening, and in the morning you will find it has enlarged so that you can pull the iron out with your hands.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent babies  from suffering pain when they are teething

Comment:
The child will never suffer from toothache, or swollen gums


How to take:
Drink the mixture every morning on an empty stomach


How to take:
When you go to bed wash the teeth with a little good wine, take the powder and rub it on the teeth.


How to take:
Wash the haemorrhoids  with hot white wine, put the powder on them and they will heal after two or three treatments.


How to take:
Place the lung over the eyes  'al fumo' and three or four treatments will heal it.


Name of Recipe:
A uno che fosse apperto (For one who is Brokke or Brusten)

How to take:
Put the herb roots in bread and always eat that bread, and roots, raw or cooked every day.


How to take:
Crush the rue and put it on the testicles. THe swelling will immediately disappear.


How to take:
Put the woman on her left side always and when you have intercourse (quando tu vuoi usar con lei) 'fa che la penda verso di te su'l galone destro' when you have finished, keep her like this a while, moving her lightly. After a quarter of an hour turn her towards you, in your arms and try to get her to sleep. And before having coitus eat semenza della mercorella maschia, which produces two seeds only, like two testicles, and both eat the right testicles of animals, and grated elephant tooth.

Comment:
You should know that it is difficult to generate children from a sterile woman, and managing to do so is granted through God's grace , since the causes of sterility are without number. But it is easy to conceive male children from a woman who only produces females.


Name of Recipe:
How To prevent your hands from getting ruined in winter (guastino)


Name of Recipe:
How to have children from a sterile woman

How to take:
First purge the woman well, then bathe her in the bagni d'acquario. Then both of you eat hare, the man particuarly, ignoring other meants. And make the herbs and spices  into raviuoli senza pasta. (2)Eat these three times a week in the morning with bread and wine. Perfume the womb with ingredients at (3) every three days. THe man takes the powders at (4) every three days. Then use this skill' Go 8 days without intercourse with a woman then go to her by night, not day. First "relax with her for a while, (solazzi"* un pezzo) before you go with her, then 'stia un pezzo con lei in piacere ma fermo; (have your pleasure with her but be still) Having done this, do your best to get her to sleep and make sure she wears an eagle stone on her left arm, not a common one but one of the rare ones, like steel. Put a dressing of freshly beaten egg over the kidneys every day with a little strong black vinegar,  changing it daily.

Comment:
Although this is 'fallace," it is still the best method to be found.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a woman give birth, who otherwise wouldn't have been able to.

How to take:
Tie the eagle stone to her left thigh, have her drink the lily water, then make her vomit and sneeze. If despite all this she doesn't give birth, or the baby is dead inside, take the ingredients at (2)to drink hot on an empty stomach, do not let her eat for 5 hours, and she will give birth. If not, she will die perhaps out of weakness: It may be necessary to extract the baby with irons because it is intraversata (lying cross-ways) in the body.


How to take:
Put the ranunculo in the hole in the tooth, or on the crown. Then take the ingredients at (2) and put it on the tooth, making sure it adheres well, and hold the root over the tooth, leaving for three hours. After one or two treatments the tooth will fall out.


How to take:
Give the foccaccia to the sick person to eat and they will recover.


How to take:
Give the mixture to the sick person every three hours.


How to take:
Give the first mixture to the patient and s/he will heal.
Better still, is the distilled juice from the black shells. To be drunk tepid, before the salasso*


How to take:
Put a spoonful in the mouth, and you will feel the effects imediately. This heals bad and rootton teeth, cleans them and removes dirt from the mouth.


How to take:
Rub the teeth with the mixture with a piece of cotton.


Name of Recipe:
To remove the smell of garlic, leeks and onions

How to take:
Eat the roasted bieta root after eating these vegetables. You can also try zedoaria, which is like ginger and is easier to do than with bieta.


Name of Recipe:
How to make sure the must doesn't overflow the vase when boiling

How to take:
Metterai intorno al buco per lo qual si sparge il vino bollendo una corona di pulegio, etc.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy against fluxes from the stomach (flusso del ventre)

How to take:
Give the patient the panico with wine to drink. Or, cook the panico in goat's milk and eat it twice daily before meals.


How to take:
Put the plaister on the area where you do not wish hair to grow.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent remedy for lumps in women's breasts after childbirth

How to take:
Place the mixture on the breasts and they will soften and unblock them. This also works against poisonous bites.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for abscesses and other swellings.

How to take:
Put on the aposteme and other swellings.


How to take:
Give the water to the woman to drink, and her milk will increase.


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether wine has been watered down

How to take:
Throw in the wine. If they float on the tip, the wine is pure and clean. If they sink, water is present.


How to take:
Put wine in a barrel containing vinegar. Put the barrel in the sun, or near the fire, or putting clean hot tiles or bricks inside .


Name of Recipe:
How to make vinegar in loaves which you can take with you without a jar.

How to take:
When you want to make vinegar, dissolve one of rolls these in sufficient wine.


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make vinegar in loaves which you can take with you without a jar.


How to take:
Eat these before meals and they will protect you from the plague. Ground up they can be placed on the bite of a rabid dog and it will heal. Likewise with nutmeg.


How to take:
Rub the mixture over the place where you think the bedbugs will appear (be born) and none will appear.


How to take:
The person wanting to purge himself will take this medicine, the evening he will go to bed without eating, washing his legs, hands and arms well in hot water. He should drink the juice made that morning, then walk for 3-4 hours. When he wants to vomit, he should do so, and will expel so much anger and phlegm it will be marvellous. This will also purge his head.


How to take:
put an onion over the meat, and the odor will keep flies away.


How to take:
Bury the meat in flour or semola and it will keep without going off. You can do the same with crushed coriander mixed in vinegar.


How to take:
It is commonly said that melon is good when the picciuolo* is bitter and when the crown hard and very grieve.*


How to take:
Burn the puleggio near the fleas and they will die.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to make abscesses 'mature'. (Per far maturar le aposteme over bognoni)

How to take:
Put the lard or fat over the boils and they will mature. If someone has many lice and lendini on their head, smear this on their head, rubbing well and they will die. Olio laurino will work as well.


How to take:
Hold the mixture in the mouth, and it will tighten swollen gums.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to protect herbs against fleas and lice

How to take:
When you sow your herbs, also sow eruca, or maceate the seeds of the herbs you wich to sow in the juice of semprevivo. When the berbs grow, they will not be ruined by fleas and bugs.


How to take:
Se con l'acqua bagnarai la ruta e aspergerai la casa, discacciarai i cimici che saranno in casa. 
Put a branch of canape (hemp/cannabis)*in your bed, you will not be troubled by bed bugs. 
Use liquid pitch and watermelon to paint on the bed, all the bedbugs on it will die. 
If you paint the bed with scilla crushed with vinegar or citron cooked ion oil you will never be bitten. 
And the same if you paint the bed with cooked fish glue. 
You can also put a vase of water under the bed and you will not be troubled.


How to take:
Spread this all over the house and it will kill the flies. AS will the sambuco decotion.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for someone who has eaten poisonous mushrooms

How to take:
The most important thing is to make the person vomit as soon as possible. Drink the crushed rue to make this happen. Or the origano and honey. Then take the ingredients at (2) Eating raw garlic will help too.

Comment:
Giova in tal caso molto il mangiar dapoi del'agio crudo, come fa la maggior parte de i villani, usandolo per thiriacca.


Name of Recipe:
How to prepare mushrooms so they can be eaten safely.

How to take:
Cook the mushrooms with wild pears, or branches or bark of the tree. If you don't have wild pears, use the domestic variety, provided they are austere. And they must only  be eaten cooked.The wild ones can be used fresh or dry, and will remove all dangers of poison.

Comment:
He opens with this: 
Poscia che cosi dilettevoli al gusto sono i fongi, che gli huomini non se ne sanno astenere; imparino almeno il modo di assicurarsi della malvagita mortifera loro, il quale fara questo.


How to take:
All these can be used, applied to the sting.


Name of Recipe:
How to make women give birth quickly and with little pain


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for one who has eaten poisonous mushrooms

How to take:
You must make them vomit with this drink.

Comment:
These remedies are also useful for those who have drunk gesso (chalk)* or other suffocating things and for those who have been given the blood of menstuating woman to drink, as evil women sometimes do. (le malvagie donne)


How to take:
Touch each wart with one chickpea, then tie the chickpeas in a piece of linen and throw it over your shoulders and the warts will dry away.


Name of Recipe:
How to tighten the gums and loose teeth.

How to take:
Wash the mouth with this. The myrrh will also kill any worms, and chewed makes the breath smell sweet.


How to take:
Wash the mouth with the warm decotion. 
You can crush the hyssop and mix with apples and nitro, to kill worms.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for dysentery and flux of the stomach

Ailment/Condition (E):
Bowel/intestinal disorders (includes flux, dysentery, diarrhea, etc.)


How to take:
Smear on the place where you want hair to grow.


Name of Recipe:
How to kill worms (Caroli, JF) in the teeth, and to get rid of the smell of teeth.i.e. rotton teeth.

Comment:
In JF, 'Caroli' can be moths, timber-worms, dust of rotten wood…so perhaps is the idea of rotton teeth, I.e. worms in them


How to take:
Put on top of the bite. Or, extract the juice and give as a drink.


How to take:
When it is cooked, give it to the patient to eat hot.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for flux of the body 
(Diarrorhea?)*


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those with flux of the urine.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those who cannot keep their food down but vomit continuously

Comment:
Can also be placed on the stomach of those suffering from flusso di corpo.(diahorrea)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to keep ants off fig-trees and from eating the figs

How to take:
Smear the mixture around the foot of the tree, one or two palms high and this will keep the ants off.To be done during the month of march.


How to take:
Keep the prepared water in the mouth for as long as possible.


Name of Recipe:
How to kill fleas and other insects which ruin the herbs in the vegetable garden

How to take:
If a menstruating woman walks bare-foot around the plants all the bugs will die.


Comment:
This works if the deafness arises from an accident, not from natural causes.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to prevent the sun from harming you on the head when you travel

How to take:
Put a twig of pennyroyal/mint in each ear and the sun will not harm you.


How to take:
If this is due ot the cold, drink a bowlful of the water, heated up, and do this three or four times.

Comment:
This and the preceeding remedy both use pulegio. Is this pure coincidence? That heat stroke and a sore throat should have the same herb used? Could it be that the author is simply inventing these as he goes along? I think I notice this elsewhere-using similar ingredients in clusters.


How to take:
Put the hot plaister on the lions of the patient. 
The drink will make the arenelle and stones come out.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a paste for catching geese, wild ducks and other birds

How to take:
Put the grain in places where geese and wild ducks tend to go and they will eat this grain, which will put them to sleep, as if drunk and they will be caught easily by hand. But you need a great deal of Belengo, especially for the geese.
2) Flocks of birds can be caught by the same method using grain soaked in sulpher. Give them olive oil to drink if you don't want them to die.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent dogs from becoming rabid. And a remedy for when they are bitten by a rabid dog or wolf.

How to take:
If a dog bites the tip of its tail, about 30-40 days after birth, it will never catch rabies so long as it isn't bitten by another rabid animal. If it is bitten, give it the bread and dung to eat for 30 days. Put the plaister on the bite and the collar round its neck, and put the garlic and onion mix in the wound. If you live by the sea, plunge it in sea water daily for 15-20 days.


How to take:
Rub the mixture on the dog where the dogs annoy it, especially by the ears.


How to take:
The dog is washed in the various mixtures.


How to take:
Wounds are treated. A purge given, and a broth.


How to take:
A plaister, a wash, a kind of dip, and a salve.

Comment:
If dogs have the mange, it is a serious illness and it is very hard to get rid of, so it is necessary to keep it well.


How to take:
Place the heart over the eyes whilst it is still warm.


How to take:
Take the electuary.
If someone has eaten it, they must be made to vomit, using the oil.

Underneath put acute clysters , so the poison is removed. Then help the heart with the theriac and mitridato.
Give them fat meat of young animals.


How to take:
Roast the liver of the dog and give it the to patient. Enlarge the bite with a razor and cut away the ulcerated flesh, making it bleed abundantly so the poison is removed. Draw it out further with 'ventose' *which have been put in the fire. (Tirarne ancora con ventose ben'affuocate.")?
Give garlic and onion to eat, drink milk, sweet wine.

Comment:
Note, some surgical skills required here


How to take:
The patient must drink the salamoia, juice and vinegar.

Comment:
Why would you drink leeches in the first place?


How to take:
The only remedy appears to be loud music and songs of various kinds, and to keep on dancing until the patient heals.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those bitten by a poisonous animal

How to take:
The most efficacious method is to suck out the poison by mouth, though this person must not have an empty stomach, should have eated windy fat foods. Then he must wash his mouth in wine, keep some olive oil in his mouth and start sucking. Enarge the bite with a razor so the poison comes out easily, 'ponendovi sopra ventose con assai fiamma per ben tirare.' (as in 587: )*Then make a plaister of finely chopped garlic and onion, and clean the place with hot vinegar.
Give the patient the following to eat. Leeks, garlic and onion leaves, with pepper and salt, bread, the flesh of hedgehogs, citrons and drinking good wine with origano, neetle seeds and laurel and juniper berries.


How to take:
Burn the paste it in the house and all poisonous animals with flee.


How to take:
The most important thing ot do is to make the person vomit the poison, giving him tepid oil to drink, or the ingredients at ( 1) once the patient has vomited several times, he must be given an enema followed by honey water. Or ingredients at (3-4) A diet of fat meats and fish. The patient mustn't sleep. Can be given Ingredients at 5) to drink.


Name of Recipe:
The antidote used by King Nicomede so no poison could harm him

How to take:
When needed, take an amount the size of a nut, with some honey-water. You will not be poisonsed. When you eat poisoned foods you will immediately vomit it up, whilst the anti-dote is harmless to you if you are not poisoned.


How to take:
If you carry this plant you will not get stung, or if you do, it will not harm you.


Name of Recipe:
Secret to prevent bees from stinging you

How to take:
Wherever this is rubbed on the skin, bees and wasps will not sting.


Name of Recipe:
How to make strong vinegar in the quantities you want


Name of Recipe:
Secret against every spell and incantation


How to take:
Attach one of these kinds, or the woods (presumably to the house) Lightning will not strike any of these.


Name of Recipe:
Secret for getting rid of ferns/bracken from fields

How to take:
By tying a piece of canna  al vomero del aratro (to the ploughshare …)?si disperdera tutta la felce che vi si ritrovara.


Name of Recipe:
Secret for making linen as soft as silk.


Name of Recipe:
Secret for stopping fruits from dropping before they are mature


Name of Recipe:
Secret for stopping martens and swine from eating the poultry


Name of Recipe:
How to make Amber paste for scented pater nosters


Name of Recipe:
How to make counterfeit pearls which appear natural


Name of Recipe:
How to cast relief medals with draganti.


Name of Recipe:
How to cast medals with relief figures using fish glue


Name of Recipe:
How to make greed, red, yellow and turquoise, without body, for writing on paper


Name of Recipe:
How to make a piece of violet cloth for illuminating  and writing


Name of Recipe:
How to make a different coloured  Paonazzo (Purplish/blue)


Name of Recipe:
How to extract oil from talc artificially


Name of Recipe:
How to make every metal look like silver


Name of Recipe:
How to make a stone which when you spit on it, will burst into flame.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a white skin with black spots, like a leopard or panther.

How to take:
The mixture can be spread on the hair and beard with a bristle brush.

Comment:
Can also be used to make the hair black and white.


How to take:
Can be rubbed on the stomach and will sooth 'dolori di madre' (menstural cramps?) and will help sciatica.


Comment:
Can also be used to wash your hands, when added to water, and for making soap balls.


Name of Recipe:
Orange flower oil, or other scented flowers


Name of Recipe:
How to quickly make a perfume for a sick  room


Name of Recipe:
How to make long and round perfumes to burn in a room

Comment:
IF you wish to do this cheaply, take the dregs of scented waters, make it into powder, adding a little timiama


Name of Recipe:
How to make face powder (polvere di cipro)


Comment:
Benzui, 'i qual comunemente adoprano i profumieri in tutti i loro odori, perche in se stesso non ha odore, ma rende l'odore a qualunque cosa dove entra, e mai non si guasta per tempo alcuno. If you don't have it, use 2 almonds and smash them, take the juice and mix it with the ground amber.


Comment:
They will smell wonderfu and this is the work of noble and wealthy people , because they keep them amongst their clothes so they all take that scent.


Name of Recipe:
How to make fine white and red incense blocks. (Moscardini * =Musk comfits; incense blocks JF and AC)


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent hair -whether beard or head hair- from falling out

How to take:
Wash your head twice or three times a week and when dry, take the oil and mix with the powders, smear on the hair and beard.


How to take:
To use:rub sweet almond oil over the area from which you wish to remove hair, then smear a thin layer of the mixture on the skin. If you have thin skin and you feel some burning take the mixture at (2) and wash with it, and the heat will pass. You can use this medicine on alternate days. If you are worried about using this mixture, which has been tried out, try the one at (3) or (4)

Comment:
There is interesting regard for the user's comfort, and the writer expects there to be discomfort and suspicion about using the mercury.


How to take:
Wash the hair with it twice a week. Once dry, rub in mixture at (2); Take a lead comb and soak the comb in the mixture, comb the hair or beared carefully and they will turn black. Or use the ingredients at (3) ; You can add oil of benzui to give it a nice scent. Another recipe is at (5) and , (6.)  Ingredients at (7) to be rubbed on the hair night and morning for a month so the hair will turn a golden colour, putting sweet almond oil on the comb.(8) wash the hair twice a week in this one.

Comment:
He says of the recipe at (3):"che e bellissimo secreto, il quale usava madonna lesina Venetiana, che per parere una bella fanciulla usava questo olio."
"She did it two or three times a day and after a week, her hair was as black as it used to be and you can do the same with the beard."
So clearly men are to have back hair and beards, and older women, once their hair starts to go grey.


How to take:
Rub this into the balding area and you hair will grow again quickly.


Name of Recipe:
How to whiten hair in the shade, without the sun, so they shine like silver

How to take:
This is called Venetian blond. In the morning wash your hair in it then wrap them in a cloth. Towards evening wash the hair normally and in the lissia put vitriuola. Dry and do this two or three times a week.

Comment:
Who wants silvery hair? Older  women  and men, perhaps??


Name of Recipe:
Soft paste for washing the hands, good for chapping of the hands, mouth or nose. Keeps the skin soft and scented.

How to take:
This is called imperiale salve, because it is very signorile. *(high-class?) and it can be used all year round and it comforts the memory as well as helping the hands and mouth.

Comment:
Interesting that it also comforts the memory. It must be the scents.


Name of Recipe:
Another ointment like a salve, excellent for cracked and chapped lips, nose, hands and feet and good for hot ailments.


How to take:
Use it for all hot ailments ,such as cracked nose, mouth ,hands and mulazze on the heels of your chidren.


How to take:
Use 1 oz in the morning, tepid and the stomach will be soothed. Don't over use.


Name of Recipe:
For those who can't keep down their food

How to take:
Put it on a piece of linen whilst hot, sprinkle the powder over it and place on the stomach. After one or two treatments the patient will keep their food down.


Name of Recipe:
How to make the skin very white and true

Comment:
"Se tu volessi che havesse odor odor buono, perche tu la facessi per qualche signora , aggingici muschio o zibetto. "

So important: suggests the assumption that someone is making this for others.


How to take:
First wash in lissia or water, when dry bathe a sponge or piece of cloth in the oil and gently rub the skin and you will see any marks on your skin disappear, whether sun burn or other. The second recipe has recently been adopted in Venice.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid or spots, moles, wrinkles and other marks

How to take:
Rinse your face in the morning and evening where you have these marks and you will see them disappear.


How to take:
Keep in a glass jar safely, and rub in to the face.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Things which grow on the face because of heating of the liver.

How to take:
Rub on the face and the spots will go away. Beware of wine and other hot things.

Comment:
So, although an internal cause is prescribed, the emphasis is not on altering that, although regimen is mentioned.


Comment:
There is such a huge difference between some of these recipes, for the same thing. Some so complicated, some so simple. As with the internal alternatives offered.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of corns (also verrucas?)


Name of Recipe:
Another secret for getting rid of corns (calli) between the fingers


Name of Recipe:
Drawing a coat of arms on a violet or rose


How to take:
To use, dampen the cloth with cold water and use the ball of soap, rubbing well, then wash with cold water until the water is clear. Repeat as necessary.


How to take:
1) Re-heat until tepid, dampen both sides of the cloth with the water and rub cloth against cloth , rinse in clean water. Wash again with a ittle white soap.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove stains from scarlet or velvet cloth without it fading

How to take:
Leave it on the stain for 2-3 hrs. Then wash in hot water. Repeat as necessary. Is the cloth is not made of grana* mix some soap with the juice and try again.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove stains from drappo di seta bianca o cremesina. (From white or crimson silk cloth)

How to take:
Wash the cloth on both sides, take the egg and rub over the stain, place in the sun and leave to dry. Wash it with fresh water and squeeze the stain.  For panna di grano* take the second water, wash the stain rubbing the cloth together well, rinse and repeat.
For the third mixture heat up the lissia, and when it starts to boil add the feli di buoi and powders and leave to boil till reduced by a third. Wash the stain two or three times in it. Rinse.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove ink or wine stains from linen, or wool


Name of Recipe:
How to revive the colour in cloth which has lost it when removing a stain.

How to take:
Soak the affected area and the colour with return.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which will remove every kind of stain from coloured cloth

How to take:
If the stain is one scarlatto, take a little scarlat cloth and dip in the water and rub the stain with it carefully , then rinse. Do the same with all coloured cloth.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of flies, spiders, scorpions etc.

How to take:
Take the feathers of the upuppa and burn in the room. The smell will drive flies and insects  away.


How to take:
1) Wipe it on your face and hands and the mosquitos will not bother you. 
2) Sprinkle mixture on the windows, doorway, walls and so on. The mosquitos will not stay.  
3) Sprinkle the water around the house.


Name of Recipe:
Rare Secret for getting rid of wrinkles and corns

How to take:
(5 different recipes)The corns/warts are soaked or cut out and the various mixtures applied.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of oil or grease without getting the cloth wet

How to take:
THe powder is placed on the stain and left in the sun. When the powder turns black brush away and replace with fresh powder. Repeat this until the powder stops turning black.


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make little barber's soaps

Comment:
It adds that having made the balls "che subito le potrai dispensare, ma saranno di poco valore.'


Name of Recipe:
How to mix the scents in soap for making barber's balls


Name of Recipe:
How to fake green leaves which will appear to be natural (to hang around the frieze in one of your rooms in winter)


Name of Recipe:
How to make a liquid varnish for figures


Name of Recipe:
How to make another sort of clear green water (varnish)


Name of Recipe:
How to copy an engraved drawing using black soap


Name of Recipe:
How to clean and dry the sweat from under arm hairs

How to take:
When you are sweaty in the summer, rub this under the arms and around the chest, and wherever you are sweaty and smelly and this powder will dry up the sweat and within days will clean the hairs which have captured the odor and will keep you from sweating and smelling in future.

Comment:
This will not harm you in any way, whether your skin, or shirt. This is a rare secret because peope do not credit such a simple powder with such virtues.


Name of Recipe:
How to make flowers of every kind quickly


How to take:
Before eating, put this mixture on the teeth and see if ;you can remove the chalkiness which deveops around the teeth with the tip of your knife. Then take a piece of wood and dip it in the water and rub over the teeth.


Name of Recipe:
How to grow every kind of tree, which will produce bigger fruits than usual

How to take:
There is a long explanation about what will happen and why, and how it works.


Name of Recipe:
How to sweeten olives with ranno (a scalding lye or water gruel JF)


Name of Recipe:
This is the real secret for making real ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
How to make another sweet paste for ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
How to purify oil of semolina for making ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
How to make lessia for washing ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
THe kind of vase needed for washing ultramarine and mixing with other blues


Name of Recipe:
The first part of knowing the virtues of lapis lazuli and making ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
How to calcify the lapis for grinding it


Name of Recipe:
How to extract gold from lapis lazuli once it has been ground


Name of Recipe:
How to make the liquid in which the lapis is ground when making ultramarine


Name of Recipe:
How to grind the lapis lazuli on porphory and its signs


Name of Recipe:
How you incorporate the Lapislazuli in a  paste once it has been ground


Name of Recipe:
How to extract ultramarine from the paste


Name of Recipe:
The different colours of blue which come from the paste and their signs.


Name of Recipe:
How to wash and purify the blues from the paste


Name of Recipe:
How to strain the blues which have been purified


Name of Recipe:
How to make black soap for cloth: with all the signs it produces when boiling


Name of Recipe:
Signs that soap makes when cooking if too strong, sweet, or liquid or white.

Comment:
This seems to come from and artisans book? The incredible detail, repetition, little tips. Also the commen near the end, 
Alcuni huomini sagaci sogliono mettere la maestra seconda con l'oglio accioche l'ogio etc. et.c" so, this is describing a male activity.


How to take:
The various ointments are applied ot the scalp, left for some time and then affected hairs are pulled out.


How to take:
Applly the salve to the burnt area . The pain will pass and after a week there will be no scars.


How to take:
Place the salve on a piece of linen or directly over the the burn


How to take:
Place pieces of linen in the mixtures and place over the burns


Name of Recipe:
How to make a salve which will heal a wound well


How to take:
Take the fat and smear over the burn. Have hare skins ready, cut into very small pieces and rub them over that. Then morning and evening rub on more salve, and hair skin, never removing it. Do this for 8 days. In the first instance, Grate  some pork lard and place on the burns as soon as possible, which will give the patient great relief and do two or three times an hour.


How to take:
Take a spoonful before eating, morning or evening, be careful of the air. This helps the gouty mostly because it alleviates pain and gives relief to the body when evacuating. (loosens the stools?)


Name of Recipe:
How to gild corami so they appear like gold (Embossed leather: Recipe is also for glass)


How to take:
This is good for poison taken by mouth and to use, smear on the pulses, the heart (on the left side) then cover the body, elave for a ong while in hot clothes so the patient sweats and he wil sewat out the poison.

Comment:
Seems strange to make such an incredibly complex  mixture, which is then just smeared on the skin!!!


Name of Recipe:
Water for bringing light back into the eyes

How to take:
Put the drops in the eyes morning and evening.


Cause/Description of ailment:
Blood which has descended into the eyes.

How to take:
Put on a piece of linen and place over the eyes when you go to bed. It will pull the blood to it.


Cause/Description of ailment:
When this colouring is caused by spreading bile

How to take:
Give the juice  to the patient to drink on an empty stomach. Two or three treatments will suffice.


How to take:
Give the patient the the scolopendria mixed in the tepid wine to drink in the mornings on an empty stomach for 20 days.
 The same is true of the other mixtures. They heal the milza (spleen) and liver, which often causes the spreading of bile


How to take:
Wash the mouth in that hot vinegar mixutre and the tooth will  heal, or will fall out painlessly.


How to take:
Put the mixture in the mouth on the side where you feel pain.


How to take:
Fill the hole in the tooth with it, leave and the tooth will fall out. You can also wash the mouth monthly with the herb in wine to protect the teeth. 
Wash the mouth with the balaustro, or put it between the gums, to firm the teeth.


Name of Recipe:
Electuary to improve the memory, clear the sight and comfort the stomach

How to take:
Take an amount the size of a chestnut every morning.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent hair loss (Scalp and beard)

How to take:
Wash the head and beard with the water in the sunshine, and when going to bed.


How to take:
Rub over the patient's head in the morning. Leave till the next day and wash the head in weak lissia and repeat for nine mornings.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of lice and nits on the scalp

How to take:
If you rub the scalp with this lice will not be attracted to the scalp. And it will kill those already there.


Name of Recipe:
Easy remedy for those who don't want to take a remedy who need to pass stools.

How to take:
First rub the body with warm clothes, keep the patient warm in bed, then apply the salve all over. The patient will sweat and pass stools


Name of Recipe:
To heal those who suffer from spleen (mal di milza)

How to take:
Take the mixture for three mornings : 
Sunflower root can be eaten 9 mormings in a row, on an empty stomach.


Name of Recipe:
Pain of the side, or colic (Mal di fianco)

How to take:
Give the patient only this mixture to drink, no other water.


How to take:
Drink the mixture 1/2 oz in the morning for three mornings.


How to take:
Drink the wine as hot as possible, go to bed and cover yourself. You can also add the root to wine and drink in the morning on an empty stomach.


Name of Recipe:
For those who have ruptured their privvies through great exertion

How to take:
A plaster is put over the ruptured area.


Name of Recipe:
How to stop the pain of gout, or podagre.


How to take:
Take the nettles and place over the affected area, as hot as is bearable.


How to take:
Take one sweet a day, 1/2 an oz at a time early in the morning.


Comment:
This is wonderful for all ailments of the limbs. I once saw a girl who had broken an arm, which hadn't been well set, and within four days it had begun to putrefy and the doctors wanted to cut it off. But with this water, which it takes 4-5 hours to make, the arm was bathed, soon healed her. You can also collect the dregs from the jar, pulverise  and use to clean the putrid wounds


Name of Recipe:
For those who have lost sleep because of a headache


Name of Recipe:
For those with hands or feet cracked/chapped  by the cold


Name of Recipe:
To heal chapping and cracking around the mouth


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those with diahrroea (flusso di corpo)

How to take:
Place the patient near the fire. Rub the fat over the back, repeating for 4-6 days.

Comment:
In the index to this volume many recipes are underlined, even ticked,  suggesting how it was used by one of its former owners.


Name of Recipe:
Water to remove marks from the face and beautify the skin


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for a person with leprous scars on the  face.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for varvole on the face (could be small white pimples associated with small pox)

How to take:
Wash the face daily in the liquid and leave to dry.


How to take:
Put on the eyes using cotton, morning and evening.


Name of Recipe:
Wonderful unguent  for every infirmity of the eyes

How to take:
If the ailment is caused by the head, take a purge using the pills.


How to take:
Put the plaster on a goat skin, not spreading too thinly and place over the area, leaving  until it comes away. Let it dry and squeeze the spot and water will come out. Put the plaster back on and when dry, and change it. If it is hard, heat the plaster a litte by the fire.


Name of Recipe:
Precious ointment for abscesses (bognoni) and other 'mali nascenti.'


Comment:
Use this, an excellent remedy against everything, especially oppillation,(obstruction) dropsy and fevers.


How to take:
Drink often in the morning on empty stomach with white wine.


How to take:
Rub on the face when you go to bed. In the morning wash  the face in water boiled with bran.


How to take:
When needed, wash the face with white wine, dry it and rub on the liquid.


How to take:
To use take a drop from each vial on the palm of the hand nad mix and rub on the face.


How to take:
Place the stone under the painful tooth; rub the other mixtures around the base of the tooth, or wash it .


Name of Recipe:
To remove hairs and prevent further growth

How to take:
Rub the area with the mixture and the hairs will fall out.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a gold colouring for gilding


Ailment/Condition (E):
Brain disorders; madness/memory loss/ etc.


Name of Recipe:
How to protect people visiting those with plague

How to take:
THe day before the visit eat  the walnut, rue and fig with theriac. Put the bedegar or similar herb below the tongue.


How to take:
When needed for the head,  take two hours before breakfasting. When needed for the stomach, take in the evening before sleeping.


How to take:
Take the pills early in the morning or before bed.

Comment:
They protect man from apostema, fevers, sincopi,* heart palpitations, they slow down aging and the greying of hair, cheer the spirit, help the stomach and purge the intestines of superfuities, of humidity and of wind. Are useful against catarrah.


How to take:
place on the sting and the swelling will go down.


How to take:
Make the person vomit using olive oil and watered down vinegar. Then make him drink copious quantities of strong black wine (vino negro grande?) with the canna root which will make him run. Removing the laziness this poison induces.

Comment:
Cannot understand title of recipe. "o sian botte, o suo salivo, che scompisciano, che e mortale.' ……or their saliva, if they piss on you, it is deadly.' ??*


Name of Recipe:
How to heal Caroli  on the genitals (Worms, Sores, holes)


How to take:
Give the horse the onion to eat and sprinkle the nostrils with the remaining vinegar


Name of Recipe:
How to heal a horse with a nail in the hoof


How to take:
Take the pan, heat and sprinkle with white wine, and perfume your face with this. Then dry with a fine white cloth. Replace the pan on the fire and put on the myrrh and perfume your face with this, keeping your face covered so the vapour cannot escape. Then cover the face and go to sleep. Do this every 15 days. Also rub oil of myrrh on the face once a month.


Name of Recipe:
Another water for softening ivory and bone


Name of Recipe:
Secret for removing the marks made on a slaves face so as to recognise them

How to take:
You must know that those who are scarred with cyphers or letters, whether on the face or elsewhere, do it in this way. They draw something on the place, then with a blade or razor they cut carefully around the drawing. This draws blood, and they take powder of fume,* used in printing, or fine charcoal, and the rub it on and the sign is made. So in order to remove those scars it is often necessary to go back and cut the place again, but in the place of coal/charcoal, put finely ground biacca bianca , o farina di frumento and leave to dry.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a sweetmeat  from quince apples


Name of Recipe:
How to make Persicata'. (A peach paste/sweetmeat)

Comment:
Blocks/strips of crushed fruit in syrup, cooked and dried.


Name of Recipe:
How to make sweetmeets of brignoni. (Sugar plums?)


Name of Recipe:
How to prepare sweetmeats of brogne damascene. (Damsons.?)


Name of Recipe:
To make sour cherry sweet-meats.*(Marascino cherries in syrup)


Name of Recipe:
How to make zuccata iscoperta: (Chopped Marrow in syrup)


Name of Recipe:
Electuary for someone with a hoarse voice or an upset stomach

How to take:
Take an ounce in the evening before bed, leave to dissolve in the mouth slowly.


Name of Recipe:
Another electuary for someone with a hoarse voice or an upset stomach


Name of Recipe:
How to make a soap which will make your hands lovely


Comment:
When dry you will be able to give these to every great gentleman.


Comment:
Use this, which will make you look like a great gentleman/woman. (da signori)


Name of Recipe:
How to make 'cosinetti' of scented roses

How to take:
The concluding remark is to 'empi li cosinetti d'ormisino cremesino.'


Comment:
(John Florio says: Musk comfits, which used to be presented to gentlemen of quality who came to see the fair city of Florence, (by appointment to the Grand Duke), as a welcoming of them to town, together with other infinite varieties. )


How to take:
Rub this on the face when you go to bed.


How to take:
Use the oil for your face, to remove every mark.


How to take:
The first oil is excellent for joint pain and gout, whilst adding the camphor it is excelent for the skin, removing all marks.


Name of Recipe:
Oil of seville orange flower (Melangoli)


How to take:
In the morning put the powder on a cloth and rub the teeth well, then wash with white wine.


How to take:
Bathe a cloth in the water and rub the teeth with it.


How to take:
Rub on the teeth when you go to bed and leave all night.


How to take:
Rub the powder on the teeth and wash with white wine.


How to take:
Rub on the teeth and they will become healthy and white.


How to take:
Put in the mouth and keep there and they will firm up.


How to take:
Wash the teeth with this water and a piece of white cloth wrapped around a small stick.


How to take:
Rub the teeth and gums and they will be white and firm


How to take:
When you go to bed put round the inside and outside of the teeth.


Name of Recipe:
A mixture which will make the skin lovely

How to take:
Rub into the hands and face, then wash with hot water.


How to take:
use these to wash your hands, or wherever you have the scab.


How to take:
When you wash your hands in the morning, rub this into the hands then put on gloves and keep them on for 3-4 hours.


Name of Recipe:
How to make blocks of Incense with which to perfume a room. (Cazuolette per profumare)


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe to make blocks of Incense with which to perfume a room. (Cazuolette per profumare)

How to take:
TO use, add a little acqua d'angei, put it on the grate over a slow flame. This is something fit for princes and gentlemen.


How to take:
Put on the hands and leave until you feel the skin puling. Remove and the dead skin will peel off. Wash the hands in fresh water and put on gloves. Only do this once every 10 days.


Comment:
There is part of a recipe preceeding this, without title and part of the recipe missing.


How to take:
Rub on the hands when they are chapped during cold weather.


How to take:
Wash the hands in lemon juice and add a little powder, rubbing well. Rinse.


How to take:
Put on the hands in the evening, cover with gloves and leave all night. Wash the hands in the morning with wel water, change the gloves nad leave them all day. Next evening repeat as before for many days and nights.


How to take:
On going to bed, wash the hands and rub on the salve, leave all night and rinse in the morning.


How to take:
Rub on the gloves, also good for the hands.


How to take:
You only need to put this on once a week, since it lasts 8 days.


How to take:
Spread this on a cloth which you place over the hairy area and leave a while, then remove. The hairs will come away with the cloth. If you wish them not to grow back, add a little suco di iusquiamo.


How to take:
To use, take 1/2 a bowlful, heat, and use a sponge to bathe your hair, whilst sitting in the sun. As the hair dries, bathe again, wash the hair as usual, and once dry, rub the hair in sweet almond oil or egg yolk.


How to take:
Wash the face in water, using the bread. Then take both the prepared waters, mix and wash the face in that.


How to take:
Heat up the mixture, rub it onto a piece of cloth and palce on the face. Leave for 2-3 hours, then remove, and the hairs will come away. Be careful to avoid the eyebrows.


Name of Recipe:
Water for removing freckles and wrinkles


How to take:
Wash the face in this in the morning. 
Dry with a cloth.


How to take:
Wash your face in the evening, dry with a fan, wash the face in the morning with other waters and dry.


Name of Recipe:
How to  make Spanish Cloths (Pezzuola di Levante)

How to take:
It does not say, but perhaps the cloth has absorbed the colour, and this is wiped over the face where colour is needed?

Comment:
Compare to 261, called pezzetta di levante. I presume the same. Using the translation from John Florio, 'spanish clouts' and he describes their use.


How to take:
Wash the face in the morning with the water produced.


How to take:
Rub on the face before bed, and wash the face in the morning.


How to take:
Daub the skin with a mixture, and 'steam' affected area, also rub it.

Comment:
This refers to 'changing' the skin; peeling it off.


How to take:
Bathe the face in this juice. IT can be kept for a year.


How to take:
Place mixture over the hairs to be removed.


How to take:
Bathe the warts in this and they will shrivel up.


Name of Recipe:
How to purify the face so it absorbs red, and white and shines better.


How to take:
The day before you wash your hair smear this over it, go to sleep and then wash the hair well.


How to take:
Put on the face with a face water. It will make your face white.


How to take:
rub the mixed blood on the face before bed and leave till morning. Wash off.


How to take:
Rub on the face before bed, and rinse off in the morning with water cooked with semola.


How to take:
Dissolve with a litte face water, then use.


How to take:
To use, mix with a little jasmine oil and put on the face.


How to take:
Rub into the face when you go to bed and rinse in the morning.


How to take:
Rub the sponge on the hair, leave to partially dry , bathe again, half dry again, reapeat three times. Then wash in lessia with soap and dry.


How to take:
Rub onto the face at night and wash in the morning with marrow water.


How to take:
Rub the face with with this at night. Rinse with water in the morning, for 8-10 days


How to take:
Rub on the face at night, wash in the morning with marrow water or bean flower water, or piantagine water.


How to take:
Take 1 dramm in a little white wine for immediate effect.

Comment:
Seeds of the nespole can also be used, or the stone in the head of prawns.


How to take:
in the eveningwhen you go to sleep, rub the area which you wish to remove hair from and then rinse in the morning.


How to take:
Take over 5 days, once a day, before dinner.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove grease stains from clothes


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


How to take:
Make the woman stand over the hot basin, so the vapour enters her vagina. Do this 10-12 times, then she should have intercourse with a man.


How to take:
First bathe the wound in the hot salve , then dip a piece of cloth in the same liquid and put it over the wound. Leave for 24 hours.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a beard black and handsome . And a secret for the hair

How to take:
In the evening rub this on the beard and hair, wrap them up in hemp cloth, or with a tablecloth and leave till morning. On getting up, remove the cloths, rub the hair and beard with a linen cloth, so the mixture is rubbed off, then wash the head and beard with lissia.  You can also then rub some jasmine oil on to make hair and beard shine.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. January

How to take:
Do not let blood unless you absolutely have to. Eat excellent confettioni and drink white wine. Avoid salty foods, don't wash your hair this month. Drink strained rose-honey three hours before eating in the morning sometiems, to comfort the stomach, get rid of anger (mondifichera dalle colere) and rheume fredde. Avoid getting cold and don't go about by night.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. February

How to take:
Eat candied fruits, because they purge you. Apples are good this month, eaten boiled rather than roasted because they lubricate the body. Take pills to lighten the head, because people suffer from head problems in this month more than any other.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. March

How to take:
Eat sweet foods and drink sweet wine. Eat cooked leeks and go to the baths sometiems. Avoid blood leltting and taking medicines. Use pennyroyal because it heats the stomach for digestion. Eat salads of Betony , which clears the sight and helps the head.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. April

How to take:
Let blood from the commun vein and use in fresh foods and meats. Purge the stoach with medicine, eat no roots. Use mint juice and betony juice and avoid tuna and other saltly fish, because they cause scabies.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. May

How to take:
Wash the face often, avoid hot foods and let blood from the vein leading to the liver. Do not eat heads or feet of animals, because of the humours of the herbs they eat and ailments they suffer from. Drink juice of absinth, or wine mixed with it, and eat fennel roots.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. June

How to take:
Drink excellent wines and sometiems drink white wine on an empty stomach, because it purges anger. (le colere). Eat lettuce with vinegar because these are good for the humours going down the veins. Eat ight foods, and always leave the table hungry. Early in the morning take exercise by walking.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. July

How to take:
Be moderate in your relationships with women and don't let blood or take medicines. Eat sage and rue in the morning before eating breakfast with a little bread. Drink water before eating because this extinguishes 'l' ardor della colera,' and temperates the body.Use citrus in all foods because it is refreshing and eat little fruit.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. August

How to take:
Eat tart food and wines and do not eat cabbages because they lead to melancholy and fevers. Use sage in all foods because it is useful for the body (corpo) and meons, which you can eat sparingly. Drink good cheeful wines. Eat poulty and veal which are refreshing.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. September

How to take:
Eat whatever you like, because everything is 'in sua natura'. Do a light purge as autumn approaches, taking a little cassia flower to assuage the body and "confortare la natura"  to conserve your blood for the approaching winter. Use powdered cordials in soups.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. October

How to take:
Drink new wines, eat fresh foods and drink goat's milk on an empty stomach because it clears the blood and purifies the lungs. Eat apple pies with sugar, because they comfort the stomach. Don't wash the hair this month.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. November

How to take:
Avoid bathing, because the blood is restricted in the veins and bathing could generate a comotion of humours. Eat thistles and truffles and shell fish, because these things are good this month. Don't go out early in the morning because the (sooty) '* calignoso' air damages the head, but wait for the sun to get higher.


Name of Recipe:
Excellent monthly Rules to conserve health. December

How to take:
Eat cabbage soups and cooked onions in sald, pears, and cooked apples after meals. Eat kid and capons and every kind of fowl except water birds. Do not go out at night because the humid air is very bad for the body. Eat parsely roots, which comfort the stoach and eat turnips cooked in ashes. Do not eat beef or pork because they are humid.


Name of Recipe:
Rules and method for taking holy wood in order to heal mal francese, get rid of sores, boils and other signs and pains.Syrup for Mal Francese

How to take:
If you have mal francese, first take a purge on medical advice, preferably when the moon is waning, in April or September, taking this syrup every morning for 6 days. On the seventh day take the medicine, next recipe.


How to take:
Eat. Then wait two hours before taking the next potion.


How to take:
Once you have taken these purges, rest for the following day taking only a laxative enema, and the folllowing day start drinking the holy wood, which is prepared in the following way.(see 1002)


How to take:
When you want to drink the water, go into a well sealed room, which air cannot enter and cover yourself well, so you feel no draughts, and do not leave the room until you have taken the second purge. Every morning at dawn take 8 oz of the tepid water, cover yourself well and try to sleep and sweat. Stay in bed like this for 2 hours. Once you have slept, dry off the sweat, after which you can get up and dress and walk about the room, not exerting yourself. Two hours before midday eat, eating only 3 oz of well-cooked bread, or biscuit and the same amount of dry grapes, skinned almonds or some ‘confettione,’* sufficient for your complexion. Drink as much of the water  as you wish, but nothing else. After lunch, ‘sta in riposo e in buona conversatione per cinque hore’ after which take another drink of the water as in the morning, then rest as you did in the morning. Then get up and dine, eating as in the morning. After dinner spend 2 hours ‘in buona conversatione’ then go to bed and try to sleep well.’ Keep to this regime for 9 days seeking to stay cheerful and avoiding any upsets, whether in the mind or body. (‘Procurando tutto questo tempo di star’allegro, senza fastidio della mente e del corpo.’) And if this diet is enough for you, avoid eating any more food, so that nature does not have to bother too much about digestion, which will impede the operation of the holy water. If this is not enough, have respect for your complexion when augmenting your food intake as little as possible. 
If your body is not able to evacuate except with urine, every day have  enema of Brodo di castrato: beef broth, two egg yolks, sugar, apples and cammomile oil and salt. (due rossi d’uova, e zucchero et mele 1 oz of both, 3 oz olio di cammoilla, un poco di sale). If you have any headaches add benedetta and hiera picra ½ oz of both: Try to keep the crisitero in as long as possible.
On the 10th day, purge yoursef once again with the same medicine and decotto. That day eat ‘pollastro  ben cotto a rosto’ (well’cooked roasted fowl) between lunch and dinner and drink the same water. The next day have a laxative cristiero, then return to the regime for another 9 days, although in these days you can eat a little roasted fowl (picciolo pollastro ben cotto a rosto), between lunch and dinner. On temperate clear and not windy days you can leave the room is you wrap up warmly, but beware of excess excercise, wind and cold. ‘E da ogni disordine’ (**)
After these 9 days, purge yourself once more, with the cristiero lavativo, and do as above. Now you can leave the house when you want, and soon you will be able to return to your normal habits. Beware however for a while of exerting yourself, certain foods, unpleasant experiences with women, and upsets in general. ‘Per alcun tempo da ogni disordine e massime da straccarti, da cibi contrarij, da dispiaceri da donne, e da fastidij.”
If you have sores, wash them with the same water and rub on the foam fro the wood. 
Once the cure is over, it will still help to drink the water, and every morning for two months take ½ oz of the elettuario, described in 1003, with a little acqua de fumo terre, and buglossa. Still don’t exert yourself.


How to take:
After eating (il desinare) enter this hot bath up to the throat and stay in for a good while, then go to bed and try to sweat.


Name of Recipe:
Admirable recipe for sena syrup, useful for all, especially those with mal francese

How to take:
Then take 1-2 oz once or twice a week at dawn.


Name of Recipe:
For a painful penis: inflamed or swollen

How to take:
Wash the member in the water, as hot as you can bear, inside and out, and it will heal quickly.


Name of Recipe:
How to whiten the hands and protect them from the cold


Name of Recipe:
For those who cannot have intercourse with women


How to take:
Drink the pulverised snake skin in tepid white wine.


How to take:
Give the woman the honey and water to drink. If she is not pregnant, she will menstruate. If pregnant, she will not menstruate.


Name of Recipe:
How to make someone sleep for three days

How to take:
Give the hare's bile to drink in wine and the person will fall asleep. Put vinegar in their mouth to wake them up.


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether a girl is a virgin or not


How to take:
Rub the rosmary juice over the breasts and give her the leaves to eat and the milk supply will lessen. Putting saffron between the breasts has the same effect.


How to take:
Give these to the woman to drink in wine.


Name of Recipe:
A natural way to conceive male children.

How to take:
The male seed is in the right side of the woman, so the woman must be turned on her right side, so the generative seed from the male goes to the correct place. It is also without doubt that the woman must enjoy coitus (bisogna che la dona pigli dilettatione nel coito) without with the womb cannot be ready. In order to conceive males, she must be careful not to finish her act until after the man, because if he were to fire off his seed before the womb is ready for conception, it would go to the left side, losing its virtues, and remaining imperfect and therefore a weak and imperfect female child would be produced. So the male must heat the woman up just enough, but holding her back before orgasm (avanti il fatto), so she is ready at the right moment.
 Be careful also to leave all the seed to empty into the woman before removing the male member, because the more that goes in the better. The sign is when the virile member has gone soft.

Comment:
Since nature always tends towards the perfect, and the male is more perfect than the female, when nature is unimpeded, it would naturally tend to produce males. So, it is important to make sure nothing inteferes. The man must first finish digesting, urinate or see to other bodily excretions, (o altro servitio del ventre) to prepare himself.


Name of Recipe:
The virtues and properties of pampinella and its roots

Comment:
Carried next to the skin it will protect you from plague.
A woman who wears it will never conceive.
A potion made from the roots and leaves frees one from male di fianco* in 24 hours.


Name of Recipe:
To prevent hair loss from the beard and head

How to take:
Wash the hair in the lissia and dung. 
Smear the fat and nut mixture over the head and beard.


How to take:
Take 1 oz once or twice a week in the morning before eating.

Comment:
It will resotre your vision, comfort the stomach, purge the excess homours and clean the kidneys. In the summer you may use sugar.


How to take:
Drink with a little sugar when you feel the pain coming on.


Name of Recipe:
Precious oil to heal every wound or cut in the genitals (Parti da basso)

How to take:
If you want to place a salve on the wounds around the genitals, shave the area, then wipe the wound with the heated oil daily for 15 days, morning and evening. Aways put a pig's bladder over it, then his brachiero, (breeches? Cod piece?)  tied on tightly.  He must stay in bed for 15 days and avoid eating damp, windy foods. Then wear the brachier for a month, and he will be healed.


How to take:
Cook the gentian root in the wine and eat , then drink the wine.


How to take:
Rub this heated up, over the nerves twice a day.


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For cloudy eyes and other obstructions of vision


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For scabies of the hair (Worms which eat the hair)


How to take:
Rub the different mixtures on the affected area.


How to take:
In all cases, wash the area with the mixture.


How to take:
Having passed stools, or letting blod, rub on the mixture.


How to take:
After removing any blood, use as a salve.


How to take:
Put sices of cheese on the eyes, or make a salve for the eyes.


How to take:
Wash the child in the decotion. Then rub with the oil mixture.


Name of Recipe:
For someone with protruding haemorrhoids

How to take:
Ontarai prima il cesso con oglio d'olive, doppo ponerai detta polvere sopra il budello.


How to take:
Spread the mixture over a skin or canvas, cut the hair with a razor and place the mixture over the crown of the head.


How to take:
The patient sits on top of the bag, which has been heated as hot as he can bear.


How to take:
Put the plaister on the right side, touching from the stomach to the petenecchio.*


How to take:
Take once drop of the cordial morning and evening 4 hours before eating , having first purged the patient and making him keep to a diet.


How to take:
Soak pieces of cloth in the mixture. Place these on the marks several times.


How to take:
Bathe the hair with any of these mixtures.


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For chronic itchy skin and rough scaly spots.


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All' Arene (Against balding and hair loss)


How to take:
Place the cloth dipped in the liquid over the bruise.


How to take:
Give 3 oz to the woman to drink in the morning and evening, before eating for 8 days.

Comment:
This also helps obstructions in the liver, spleen and purges the kidneys and bladder.


How to take:
Give 2 drams at a time to the patient. Also for those with breathing difficulties.


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For Dysentery, diarrhea and the bloodie flux of women.


How to take:
Wash affected areas with the water morning and evening


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Pleurisy (Mal di punta)  and putrefaction of the womb

How to take:
Drink 4oz of the juice morning and evening.


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For breathing difficulties, oppilation of the liver, lungs and difficult coughs.

How to take:
The patient takes the potion morning and evening


How to take:
Give to drink before bed and it will make the patient sweat out the unpleasant humours.


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For stomach ache, and liver or kidney pains


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For hoarseness and tightness in the chest caused by evil humours


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A remedy to provoke expulsion of a dead baby, or to expel the after birth.


How to take:
Place hot over the umbelical and the pudenda.


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For Redness in the eyes.  And (caccolosi)

How to take:
Bathe the eyes with any of these distilled waters.


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Remedy for the ruptured intestine or testicles in children

How to take:
Give 2-3 oz to the patient to drink in the evening.


How to take:
Give a gotto* to drink every day for three mornings. Wash the wound with salt water, putting leeches over the bite first, to draw out the poison.


How to take:
Give to the patient to drink three times at day at meal times.


How to take:
THe patient must lie down on their back, and have the wool placed over their stomach. After one hour remove the wool, clean the stomach, and rub in the olio nardino.


How to take:
Place the cooked meat over the scagli. Or, rub with the myrrh and belgioino.


How to take:
Place the cloth over the stomach like a plaister.


How to take:
1) Give this to drink in wine if the patient has no fever, or water if he has.
2) Give this to drink to the patient.
3) Make the patient eat this.
4) Give this for three days if the patient is loosing blood.


How to take:
Drink the bird-ash drink. Mix 1 drm of the powdered herbs in 6 oz of hot wine and drink this.


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Remedy for protruding haemorrhoids. To make them go back in.

How to take:
Wash the intestines with the hot wine and verbena mixture. It helps to smear hot pitch on them and put them back inside.


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For  abscesses (bugnanze) which have burst (3 remedies)

How to take:
All these can be placed over the affected area.


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How to remove thorns or similar things stuck in the flesh.(3 remedies)

How to take:
Place these on the thorn to draw it out.


How to take:
Bathe the warts in fresh warm pig's blood and leave ot dry, then rinse off.


How to take:
On going to bed, wash the mouth with one of the wine mixtures. (The recipe fails to say what you do with the herb and honey mixture. Presumably put in the mouth.)


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A remedy for those with difficulty urinating

How to take:
Heat the bag and place it on the painful area.
Make the patient drink the mixture.


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Remedy for one who cannot retain his urine

How to take:
1) Mix the slug powder in wine and drink.
2) Drink the hare's brain in wine and eat its kidneys.


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Remedy for itch and hardness of the womb

How to take:
Place the pessary in the cervix; 
In order to reduce hardning of the womb, mix the fenugreek with the blood and bathe the area


How to take:
The woman shoujld bathe in the hot water/herb mixture, and put On the plaister  (does not specify where)


How to take:
Give the syrup to drink every morning for four days as a purge.


How to take:
Bathe the eyes in the  milk. Or put the plaister over the eyes when they are closed and leave over night. Repeat until healed.


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For i tisici-(those with consumption) Or sputo della marcia

How to take:
Drink the first mixture, eat the second as if it were honey. Cook and eat the third.


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An ointment for muscle spasm-brought on by a poisonous bite


How to take:
Give a glass of the cordial to the woman to drink morning and evening.


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How to heal the the disease known as Saint Anthony's fire, or 'Fuoco salvatico.'


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Remedy for Melancholia mirachiale, (wind in the left side)


How to take:
Shave the head with a tazor, and rub the head with the foam which forms upon milk. The person will sleep immediately.


How to take:
1) Either give the prepared lungs  to the patient to eat , or give him 2 scrupoli of the herbs at (2) however you like.


How to take:
The oil is rubbed on the back of the neck.
The cordial is to be drunk on an empty stomach in the morning, three times a month.


How to take:
Wash the eyes in either of these waters.


How to take:
Place any of the various liquids in the ears.


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Remedy For a fast-beating heart, or tremors

How to take:
Give an amount the size of a nut to the patient each time.


How to take:
Bathe the breasts with either of these liquids, especially the nipples.


How to take:
Rub the mixture on the breasts. 
Or, bathe the nipples with a woman's first menstural blood.


How to take:
Give to drink mixed with the syrup or wine.


How to take:
Give the patient the pills and then drink the wine.


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A remedy for blood or milk curdled (oppresso) in the stomach (4 remedies)


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Remedy for obstruction of the liver (oppilation)

How to take:
Give the dried figs to the patient with the pepper, or the seeds and sugar.


How to take:
The patient should drink the ivy-mixture for seven mornings on an empty stomach, or drink 4 oz of the cinquefoglio juice.


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For a chronic pain in the liver, and of Hypochondrium. (Around the short ribs, navel)


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For hardening of the liver with jaundice.

How to take:
First rub the the liver area with the hand bathed in vinegar, then dipped in gum oil. Then rub in the ointment.


How to take:
THe patient should take 1 oz of the potion every morning.  The theriac should be rubbed on the back mixed with acqua rosa. The other ingredients (at 3) may be given in food.


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Remedy which causes someone to pass urine.

How to take:
The patient should drink any of the mixtures.


How to take:
Give the pills one at a time to the patient, and it helps to give the patient the other ingredients (at 2) in their food or drink.


How to take:
The patient sits on top of the bag with the warm leaves. Or drinks the appio mixture.


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Remedy for Constipation -strainings (Pondera)

How to take:
THe patient sits on the cooked cabbage. 
Or place coals on a brazier with a a box over it, containing the scents. The patient sits on this, and the smoke will enter from below. (ponerai su le bragie in un catino, un scartozzo dove sia dentro di ……)


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Remedy to provoke the menses or  to cause the expulsion of the after -birth or caul.

How to take:
1) Sit the woman over the steam.
2) The patient drinks 1 drm of the ingredients
3) Drink the mixture.
4) The ingredients are placed in the woman's vagina.


Name of Recipe:
Pain in the womb, caused by 'gross humors.


How to take:
Rub any of the oils around  the neck of the womb.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for the dropping out of the womb.

How to take:
Place the plaister on the womb and put it back inside. 
Make a perfume to go underneath the woman.


How to take:
Rub the vernice over the area. Or, the mixture.


How to take:
First, one must take the universal cure. (Purging?) Then draw blood from the painful side of the body, at the calf and place the cloth dipped in acqua vite, or the ivy oil over the pain. 
The patient should eat the ivy omlettes on an empty stomach, for 9 days. Or take the ingredients at 4. You can also make a clyster from the ingredients at (5).


How to take:
Fumigate the room with the burning ingredients.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for spots on the face (4 remedies)

How to take:
Rub any of the various ointments on the face.


How to take:
Use each as an ointment to rub on the face


How to take:
Take morning and evening about 1 1/2 ozs, on an empty stomach.


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Remedy for flux of the stomach and bowels

How to take:
Dip the sponge in the mixture and rub over the stomach.


How to take:
Put a plaister on the area and replace the intestines


How to take:
Dip the sponge in the mixture and rub on the stomach.


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Remedy for hardening of the spleen and other limbs and paralisis


How to take:
Give the 2 drms of the herbs in 3 oz of water to drink to the patient.


How to take:
Give a spoonful of the mixture to the patient.


How to take:
Place the powdered herbs around a large wax candle. Burn this under the opening to the womb and the fumes will bring it out.


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Remedy for stomach burps, vomiting caused by cold humours

How to take:
Give this to the patient two hours before eating. Adding the aniseed will excite the lost appetite.


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Remedy for quartain fever and other fevers which last a long time.

How to take:
The patient drinks the thistle powder 1/4 hour before his temperature rises and he fits,. Cover him well. Or take the water made of the herb and make him sweat copiously.


How to take:
THe patient drinks the first mixture every evening on an empty stomach, followed by the ginger mixture. Then put him to bed.


How to take:
Dip a piece of cloth in the distilled water and place it hot over the area. Also give the water to the patient to drink.


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Remedy for women who are too fat to conceive

How to take:
Give the woman the distilled water to drink.


How to take:
Make ashes of the vine wood, dissolve with vinegar and bathe the area. Or, put the caulking in a pan over a (un cattin con bragia) brazier to make smoke, (a hole with coales in it?) and seat the patient over it. Also, boil the cabbage leaves in water and butter and the patient sits over it as it steams.


How to take:
Give a drop of either to the woman to drink


How to take:
Give an amount the size of a nut in the morning before eating of the orobo seed mixture. 
Give 10 drms. Of the Farcocolla mixture to drink every morning in cold water


How to take:
Give one dram to drink with a little light wine morning and evening, and to keep under the tongue.


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How to remove white spots from the nails


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Remedy for flegmatic humours in the bladder and kidneys

How to take:
Drink drink 4 oz of the cordial every morning and evening.

Comment:
This will consume the phlegm in these places, although it should be noted that this remedy works when the phlegm is a result of cold rather than heat.


How to take:
Put the plaister between the umbelical and pettinicchio.


How to take:
Givea drop every morning to the patient, and cover well so s/he sweats.


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Remedy for the 'dolori' and blood retained in the womb

How to take:
The woman should allow the steam to enter her from below.


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Remedy for i tisici, catarrah, coughs and other lung problems

How to take:
Give the patient the a glass of the cordial to drink warm in the morning before eating


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How to induce labour when the baby has died . And against poisonous animals

How to take:
Give the distilled water to the woman to drink.


How to take:
Give 2 oz to drink at a time of the distilled water. Also bathe the head with it, drying it.


How to take:
Wash the patient's skin with any of these remedies.


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For stomach aches, or pain in the spleen, and for wind.

How to take:
Make the patient eat these with a little wine.


How to take:
Rub the area with the warm ointment in the morning and evening


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To comfort the brain, cure apoplexy and colic

How to take:
Give to the patient to drink. Also bathe on the forehead. Drinking a great quantity will heal colics.


Name of Recipe:
For white discharges from the womb and for coldness of the womb

How to take:
Give the woman 3 oz. Of the distilled water at a time.


How to take:
Give (mezo gotto )at a time to the patient.


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To heal falling out and perforation  (prefocation) of the womb


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To drive away sorrow, sharpen the senses and improve the memory


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Remedy against the clotting of the milk in the breasts


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Remedy for fullness (bloating)? of the stomach and asthma


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Remedy for the expulsion of the afterbirth (secunda)

How to take:
Insert the pessary in the neck of the womb.


How to take:
Insert the herb into the cervix. Or, 
Put the warm miglio in a bag, and place on the woman's genitals


How to take:
Give to the patient with white wine an hour before their temperature rises, or before the shivering.


How to take:
Rub the grease onto the face in the evning and rinse with acqua di semola in the morning.


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For spots, pustules and other marks on the skin

How to take:
Wash the face with this every day for 3 weeks.


How to take:
Take a spoonful morning and evening two hours before eating


Name of Recipe:
To remove birthmarks and moles acquired in the womb

How to take:
Wash the marks with the distilled water often .


How to take:
Give 4 oz to drink each time for 9 mornings.


Name of Recipe:
For headaches in which the beating of the blood in the arteries prevents sleep


Name of Recipe:
For i tisici casued by heavy viscous humours

How to take:
Give one spoonful each morning 2 hours before eating.


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For 'renelle' or viscous matter in the kidneys

How to take:
Give 6 oz to drink on an empty stomach for several days.


How to take:
Place the cloths at the base of the breasts.


How to take:
Fill half a walnut shell with the ointment and tie this over the umbelical and keep it there for a night.


Name of Recipe:
How to bring the milk into a woman's breasts


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For flatulence caused by cruditie in the stomach


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For bad breath resulting from eating garlic etc.


Name of Recipe:
How to provoke a woman's menses. (Il mese)


How to take:
Give the patient this wine to drink in the morning and evening.


How to take:
Take 3 pills an hour after dinner on several occasions.


Name of Recipe:
For weakness of the stomach caused by the cold


How to take:
Give 3 oz of the distilled water to drink morning nad evening on an empty stomach.

Comment:
This helps with colic and with the expulsion of a dead fetus.


Name of Recipe:
For invisible haemorrhoids (maroelle cieche)

How to take:
Give 3 oz of the water in the morning. If they appear, soak pieces of cloth in the distilled water and wash them.


Name of Recipe:
For painful haemorrhoids and chapped buttocks


Name of Recipe:
For painful haemorrhoids  and chapped buttocks (Remedy 2)


Name of Recipe:
For flatulence and other disorders (passioni) of the womb

How to take:
Insert these rolls into the woman's vagina


How to take:
Give these to the patient in their food and drink. Also rub the oil over the area.


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For painful breasts and to help the milk to descend


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Remedy for water and wind in boys testicles


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Remedy for scabs on the hands caused by syphilis.


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Against the unpleasant complexion caused by dropsy

How to take:
Purge the body well first. THe patient should take one of the rolls morning and evening before eating.


How to take:
Drink 5 oz at a time before eating for 15 days.


How to take:
The patient should take 1 oz of the cordial daily.


How to take:
Put the distilled water in the eyes in the early morning and before dinner, and before sleeping.


How to take:
Give to 1/2 spoonful of this cordial to the patient at dawn, and one hour before dinner, after two spoondfuls of aromatic sweet white wine.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for problems with the sense of smell.


Comment:
Put any of these in the mouth. Afterwards, rub the gums with any of the powders.


How to take:
Give 3 oz of the water to drink morning and evening on an empty stomach.


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Remedy for the moles and birthmarks which chidlren are born with


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For a protruding umbelical and internal ruptures


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For the expulsion of the afterbirth -secondina

How to take:
Give the juice to the woman to drink. She can also be given borage juice.


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Remedy for weeping sores and scabs on children's heads

How to take:
Shave the child's hair and rub the ointment on their head. The following day wash their heads with soap mixed with the same herb. Repeat a few times.


How to take:
Spread over the sores, having first cleaned the wound with oil of tartar or myrrh.


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For hardening of nerves or ligaments caused by wounds

How to take:
Rub the ointment on the affected area at night before sleeping and wrap in dog skin. Wash in the morning with the lotion.


Name of Recipe:
To dissolve blood clots (sangue morto) caused by falling/striking


Comment:
Also useful for painful ears, and 'grossi uomori'.


How to take:
Drink 4 oz (un gotto) every morning and evening.


Name of Recipe:
How to dissolve blood clots inside the body, caused by wounds.


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For inflamed/infected  wounds or fistulae


How to take:
Wash sores with caper root extract, then Bathe the wound with this oil for 8 days.


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Remedy for sores, boils, gangrenes or phadagena.


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How to get rid of spots and pimples on the face


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To heal internal ruptures caused through a fall and to dissolve congealed blood

How to take:
Give 4 oz at a time, on an empty stomach, morning and evening.


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For sores on the nose, mouth and those caused by the pox


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for bruising on the skin, and sores on a woman's genitals or swellings on the breasts

How to take:
Soak a piece of linen in the water and place over the sores three or four times a day. Use the crushed herb at (2) for the breasts


Name of Recipe:
How to staunch the flow of blood and close up wounds in the intestines and bladder


How to take:
Using a piece of linen soaked in this water, bathe the penis


Name of Recipe:
To clear the viscous humous between flesh and skin caused by the Scab/Itch

How to take:
Give the patient 4 oz to drink in the morning on an empty stomach for 8 days, also washing  the affected parts twice.


How to take:
Lay these on the wound. When they dry, add fresh ones, and continue for 3 days


How to take:
Put the intestines back in place, then put the linen strips over the ruptured area. Drink the alchimilla powders for several days.


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Remedy for pimples and swellings on the legs, female genitals with burning and redness


How to take:
Bathe the wounds in this juice, and use the distilled water on gangrene.


Name of Recipe:
For erisipele (blit/blast or  inflammation/hot ulcers, running scurvy, St. Anthony's fire,) and cankers


Name of Recipe:
For infected lungs and those with 'ptisick'. (Tuberculosis)

How to take:
Give the to patient to drink every morning


How to take:
The patient should rinse his/her mouth in this several times.


Name of Recipe:
For ringworm, corns and sores on the feet

How to take:
Pour over the affected parts, or dip pieces of cloth in the mixture and place over them.


Name of Recipe:
How to stay the bleeding of haemorrhoids and sores /wounds on the genitals


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For stinking gums and sores in the mouth


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Remedy for hot ulcers (erisipele) and watery sores on children's heads

How to take:
Dip a brush into the mixture and paint over the sores.


Name of Recipe:
For hot abscesses (posteme coleriche) like running scurvy and similar.


Name of Recipe:
For sores (piaghe) of the bowels and water ruptures

How to take:
Bathe the affected area in 2 spoonfuls of the water for 10 or 12 days.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for the ruptured intestines of children

How to take:
Boil the herbs at (1)in water. Then use this to bathe the child for three hours a day for three days; Whilst in the bath hi must drink the juice make at (2), and once out of the bath rub the ointment at (3) on him. Repeat for 8 days.


How to take:
Place the compress on the burns and sores.


Name of Recipe:
For the corrosive wounds known as the wolf (malla lupa)

How to take:
Wash the affected area several times with this.


Name of Recipe:
For sores and ruptures of a woman's genitals, and to staunch a nosebleed

Comment:
Steep pieces of cloth in this juice nad place over the area.


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Remedy for somone who has fallen from a high place


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To staunch to flow of blood from the womb, or of urine and from wounds and to heal black pimples on the legs

How to take:
Give the patient 6 oz to drink and dip pieces of hemp in the water and use to bathe the legs.


Name of Recipe:
To staunch the flow of blood from wounds

How to take:
Dip a piece of cotton in the mixture and tie around the wound


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to stay the flow of bood from haemorroids


Name of Recipe:
For haemorrhoids and tumori ficosi del sedere (crusty swellings on the buttocks)

How to take:
Bathe the area with cloth dipped in this water. Can also be used for a red face.


How to take:
Give the patient 4 oz to drink daily. Or drink 1/2 an oz of the herb juice mixed with vinegar.


Name of Recipe:
For open sores on the hands and feet caused by mal francese


How to take:
Bathe the area several times a day with pieces of cloth dipped in this water, or with honey.


How to take:
Soak pieces of cloth in the water and place over the affected areas


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for scab, itch and swellings on the maroelle


Name of Recipe:
For sores around the eyes and to improve vision (schiarir la vista)

How to take:
Wash the eyes in verbena water several times a day.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for rawness on the feet and on other parts of children


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Remedy For neck pains derived from blows or other reasons


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Remedy for the disease Panaritio ('which often breedeth in ones fingers)


Name of Recipe:
For chapping of the buttocks and spots on the face

How to take:
Place any of these on the affected area. THe dust from a dog's head is for the spots on the face.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for swellings and sores of haemorrhoids


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to staunch the flow of blood from haemorrhoids

How to take:
Give any of these to the patient to drink on an empty stomach, except the swan fat which is to be rubbed on the area.


How to take:
Rub the first mixture on the area.  Or sprinkle the powdered teeth over the sores.


Name of Recipe:
For swellings and pain in the calves and soles of the feet


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for ears with sores, emitting pus, or which stink


Name of Recipe:
How to lessen the pain when the eyes have suffered a blow.


How to take:
Before rubbing in the ointment , lick the lips and place the ointment on a piece of cloth and lay over the mouth.


Name of Recipe:
For sores, ulcers under the tongue (ranola)


How to take:
Place the bag in the fistula* , but if it doesn't heal, add the chicken gall and lees of od wine.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for an abscess on the penis and windiness of the belly

How to take:
The patient must first have their blood let, (reggimento universale), then swab the penis with the mixture. Drink the aristologia water for wind.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to prevent the entrails from descending into the testicles


How to take:
Give 1 dram at a time to the patient and place pietra calamita over the rupture the night that you give the medicine.


Name of Recipe:
To Staunch the flow of blood from haemorrhoids

How to take:
Spread over the haemmorrhoids and push back in place.


Name of Recipe:
For nervi ponti e trafitti  (which have been pricked/Pierced-damanged)

How to take:
Make poultices out of the various mixtures.


Name of Recipe:
For superflous flesh on wounds and the maggots to be found in it


How to take:
Put the powders on the gangrenous area, then add the ointment.


Name of Recipe:
For Impetigini impiagate (Tetters, a running itch,  impetigo)

How to take:
Apply the ointment. Use the water to heal the lentigini. 
THe second water can be used washing the face at night before sleeping, putting a fine cloth on the skin, and rinsing in the morning with acqua di semola and acqua rosa.


Name of Recipe:
For sores and scabs which make one look like a leper


How to take:
When other remedies have failed, make a perfume for the legs, as with someone with syphilis, fill the mouth with wine and keep the leg covered so it receives the perfume.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for one who has fallen from a height

How to take:
Give cold water to drink or the other waters.


Name of Recipe:
For an injured limb, resulting from a  fall


How to take:
Then place the meat within the woman's vagina and leave for a night. Remove and wash the vagina with the decotto at (2)


Name of Recipe:
For sores at the neck of the vagina caused by childbirth

How to take:
Place the pessaries inside the woman. Rinse with bitter lavender


Name of Recipe:
For burning sores in the womb of pregnant women

How to take:
Once cool, rub over the sores and rinse with concentrate of myrtle flowers


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for pricking-pain of the sinews (pontura dei nervi) (7 remedies)

Cause/Description of ailment:
This happens either because they have been hit, or have been punctured or sliced through with a sword or knife, and it is extremely painful. It is therefore necessary to open the area with two incisions so the humours are released, and if the body is full of blood, must let some blood from the veins. If the body is full of evil humours it will be necessary to purge  him.

How to take:
If there is no incision pain can be lessened by applying old, hot olive oil to the area near the cut, or place the terbentina hot on the area. That is for those with soft flesh. But for those with  strong bodies and hard skin put euforbio mixed with old oil.


Name of Recipe:
Amazing oil for healing wounds within 24 hours


Name of Recipe:
For those who spit blood through a ruptured vein


Name of Recipe:
For inflammation of the kidneys and discharges from them


Name of Recipe:
For panaritio and every other ailment of the finger tips


Name of Recipe:
To heal the 'scorticature' which come to children through their urine or other sharp humours. (Rubbing/chafing?)


Name of Recipe:
To heal the la descolation da materia acuta, e saldare le scorticatture che fanno. (Discharges from the Kidneys 'occasioned by a sharpe cause and heal the scortications which they make.')

How to take:
When cold rub on the penis 'sotto nel filo' **


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to heal spots, marks and any growths from the flesh all over the body


Name of Recipe:
How to make oil of balsam and its virtues

Comment:
This balsam is used for wounds, gangrened, fistules, for leprosy, noli me tangere. Anthrax, poison. If put in a wounds it brings out the bones. It heals breaks and used on the temples improves the memory.


Name of Recipe:
For wounds which cannot heal, because of dryness of those areas


How to take:
Place this on the wound. You can also wrap cloths around it which have been dipped in oil of sulpher. (Brimstone)


Name of Recipe:
For bruises and  wounds caused by blows or such like.


Name of Recipe:
For painful sores caused by a cold complexion. (distemperanza)


Name of Recipe:
A remedy to remove the excess flesh which grows in wounds

Aims of Remedy:
The aim is to dry out the area with medicine which are not corrosive, like tutia, antimony, galle, or scorze d'incenso cotti e lavati li primi metalli.

How to take:
First bathe the flesh with the concentrated liquid. Then place the bags on the excess flesh.


How to take:
If the worms have been caused by 'il mal habito del corpo' (*) the universal remedy is needed to dry up the excess humididy, such as blood letting, drinking guaicum water and placing unguento rosato with precipitate on the wound, or unguento apostolorum


How to take:
Squeeze the juice out onto the stomach and umbelical of the child and put the peels on top.


How to take:
Fill the shells of walnuts and tie over the stomach, one over the umbelical to kill the worms.


How to take:
These heal wounds and with cloth dipped in can be used on cankers, gangrene, fistules, carbuncles and noi me tangere. A drop in the eyes will heal them in 9 days, a drop drunk with white wine heals mal della renella,*  maroelle. * 2 drms drunk in broth helps pain in the womb. All pains caused by cold, and contractions of nerves can be healed with this rubbed on them. The third water is red, and 1/2 spoonful is given every day for 15 days, it will heal lepers, those with hydropsia, i tisici and cold gout.


Name of Recipe:
An Oil which is similar to balsam, useful for various ailments.

How to take:
THe first is clear, the second makes oil, and the third is good for painful nerves, fistules, gangrene, wounds, leprosy, anthrax, . A drop in broth or wine heals passions of the womb, internal pains, removes corrupted bones and put on the temples, improves memory


Name of Recipe:
For Melancholia mirachiale (superfulous winde in the left side) and sincope. (swounding)

How to take:
Give 2 drms at a time on an empty stomach


How to take:
Give 2 drms in the morning on rising before going out.


How to take:
Having made a sparadroppo, use it to place on the wound.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for commotion of the brain after a fall or blows, which result in loss of speech

Cause/Description of ailment:
After a fall or blows, which results in loss of speech

How to take:
Make a water  for the head, shaving it first with a razor.


How to take:
Put the plaster  on the childs 'commissura,' until it falls off.


Name of Recipe:
Al mal habito, (To cure the evil habit) and for those that have the spleen


How to take:
Over 15 years, give 2 drms in the morning before food with white wine and afterwards chew coriandoli. 14 years, 1 1/2 drms, under 14, 1 drm. When the child leaves the house, keep a little of this electuary in the mouth. In order to cure plague give this as soon as fever is felt, for 24 hours, with acqua di albatro o somacco. It is also helpful for cold aiments, or pains given with wine or acqua vite, afer the universal remedy. (Blood letting)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to prevent the descent of catarrah through a cold stomach

How to take:
Take a spoonful in the morning before leaving the house


How to take:
Dip a sponge in this and tie around the King's evil.


Name of Recipe:
How to cure many ailments with oil of sulpher


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe for hands scarred with syphilis

How to take:
Boil in a basin until reduced by 1/4, put the hands over the basin, cover with a linen coth and put the hands over the steam as hot as can be  borne for 1/2 hour.


How to take:
Take 1 1/2 drms in a little sweet white wine, morning and evening 2 hours before food


Name of Recipe:
To lessen the pain of syphilis in any limb


How to take:
to be taken mornings, 2 hours before food.  Rub the unguent on the spleen at the same time.


How to take:
Take 1 pill weighing 1 scrupolo every other day.


Name of Recipe:
How to heal scurf and scabs from the face

How to take:
Use the distilled water to wash the face 3-4 times a day.


Name of Recipe:
For chapped hands caused by the heat of the liver

Cause/Description of ailment:
Overheating Caused by the heat of the liver


How to take:
Give 1 oz or more of the rasins before eating , according to the extent of the problem.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those who cannot urinate because of phlegm


Name of Recipe:
To purge the head via the nose after the universal purge of the body

How to take:
You can place the bags near to your nose when you wish.


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Against weakness (debilita della virtu) and all infermities

How to take:
3 or 4 drops of this second water in wine heals al cold ailments, inside and out,. IF they are hot ailments, give to drink with endive water. . Drunk with scented wine it restores the 'virtu' , helps plague. Drunk every morning when one is out of the house with strong wine, and washing the hand, nose and face in it will preserve from plauge. If infected, put on the swellings and carbuncles. It helps apoplexy, and epilepsy, if the nape of the neck is washed with it.


How to take:
Wash the hair in the lessia mixture, then rub the oil into the head before going to bed.


How to take:
Take 1 scrupolo an hour before eating dinner every evening.


Name of Recipe:
To make hair re-grow and to keep it from dropping out

How to take:
Use the water and  oil extracted  to rub on the hair roots


Name of Recipe:
How to remove scars and scabs left by the French Disease


How to take:
Use these to rub the teeth, and wash them with aceto squillitico, or dissolve the pastels in wine.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent teeth from falling out due to mal francese

How to take:
Rub the oil mixture on the gums, then wash the gums in the water several times.


Name of Recipe:
For dysentery caused by the French disease


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For sores in the throat caused by the French disease

How to take:
Rinse the mouth often in the water. Otherwise take the second medicine. Dip a piece of cotton into the mixutre and use to rub onto the sores.


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Remedy for carioli (Knobs) caused by French Disease


Name of Recipe:
For Carioli (knobs) inside a woman's vagina


How to take:
Then put saliva on a piece of cotton (bombagio) and put a tiny amount of the powders on it, to touch the porri fichi .Be careful, the powders can eat the flesh away.


Name of Recipe:
For brozze o pustles caused by French Disease

How to take:
Touch the sores with the water. Or, use the other easy remedies.


Name of Recipe:
For prefocation of the womb: (a Choaking or Stopping of the Matrix whereby they fall into  swoons. JF)

How to take:
The woman will take three at a time in the morning before eating on alternate days


Name of Recipe:
How to purge melancholy humours, heaviness of the head and stomach

How to take:
Give 4 oz according to the patient's disposition, dissolved with acqua cordiali, or of lupoli and sumoterra.


Name of Recipe:
How to purge one suffering from pains caused by the French disease

How to take:
The patient muxt take 1/2 oz for a purge early in the morning


Name of Recipe:
How to stop prolonged bouts of periodic fevers

How to take:
Give a drop to the patient who will sweat to such an extent as to stop any fevers caused by an excess of cold humors.


Name of Recipe:
For those whose eyelids are infected with acute or salty humors

How to take:
Wash the eyelids in this water. And then rub on the ointment.


Name of Recipe:
For epilepsy in children and to heal catarrah in the head caused by the cold

How to take:
Place on the child's head around the crown, having first shaved off any hair.


How to take:
Give to drink with water and vinegar, or boil the hare's testicle in good wine and give to drink in wine. 
It also helps to give a little nepeta and myrrh in wine before supper, and rub under the penis with earth from a smithy. (terra della molla fabrile?)


Name of Recipe:
For perfocation (chocking/stopping) of the womb when it cannot return

How to take:
Crush the aruta and mix with honey. Dip wool into this and place inside the vagina. This will wake up the womb, so it will return to its place.


How to take:
Give  1 drm to the patient just after dawn, in three pills.


Name of Recipe:
For those with difficulty urinating because of phlegm

How to take:
Give four oz.  to drink two hours before eating.


How to take:
Make a sparadrappo (place this mixture on the cloth) to wrap around the sore area.


Name of Recipe:
For pleurisy (Mal di ponta) when the patient cannot spit


How to take:
Rub hot onto  the painful area in the morning and evening on an empty stomach


Name of Recipe:
How to purge the chest of 'punta' and for i tisici


Aims of Remedy:
This will rupture the abscess and facilitate spittle and reduce the pain


Name of Recipe:
Another remedy for the same disease (Pleurisy)


How to take:
The ointment which is spread over a cabbage leaf and heated up, then placed on the painful area.


How to take:
Use sponges or telt dipped in this and place them hot over the painful area


Name of Recipe:
For Those with spleen and a painful liver

How to take:
Give one spoonful at a time to the patient


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for someone who has fallen from on high


How to take:
Place one or two drops in the eyes in the evening


Name of Recipe:
For vertigo, and swelling of the arm after blood letting

How to take:
Give one or two spoonfuls in the morning for 7 days


Name of Recipe:
For cold in the stomach and to improve one's colour

How to take:
Give to the patient in all his or her food.


How to take:
Give the fritters to the patient twice a day on an emtpy stomach


How to take:
Swab the abscess with the oil. Tie hot straw over it. Every day before placing the poultice on, place the hot compress on the abscess.


Name of Recipe:
A remedy for joints which are out of place

Comment:
In the edition consulted there is no title for this recipe. THe ingredients are there, run together with the previous recipe. However, the title appears in an English translation of bk 4. There are many typographical errors in the Italian volume.


How to take:
Use these spices on food, more in the winter than summmer. This helps all ailments caused by  the cold and damp, helps the mind and improves the memory


How to take:
Apply the poultice and give the cordial, morning and evening before food, 0.5 oz at a time .


Name of Recipe:
For a swollen arm resulting from blood letting

How to take:
Make a poultice, or tie the bryony leaves on the arm


Name of Recipe:
For a body or legs swollen by cold humours

How to take:
Give the patient 4 oz a day, adding water.


Name of Recipe:
How to encourage healthy flesh to grow in wounds


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for Wild Fire, (Fuoco salvatico) called cholera


How to take:
Bathe the area with asses or woman's milk, and  put the salve on the affected areas.


Name of Recipe:
How to clean fistules and other infected sores


Name of Recipe:
For all sores, and pains. Precious oil (1)


Name of Recipe:
For all sores, and pains. Precious oil (2)


Name of Recipe:
For sore breasts (sores on the breasts? Mammelle impiagate)


Name of Recipe:
Marvellous powder for the eyes, head, ascotomia, vertigo, paralisis, internal pain, consumes excess humidity of the brain and conserves the memory

How to take:
Put in all foods, especially during the winter.

Comment:
Used by Emperor Frederik. 
Scotomia and vertigo are diseases of the head which make things seem to go round- (From English trans.London 1569)


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For painful kidneys, loins, the head (emigranea) and womb


Name of Recipe:
A pomander against the same disease (Phthisi)

How to take:
Make a bag for the nose, with a thread at the top, so as to be able to place it near the nose.


How to take:
Place these in the fire, so the patient can breath in the smoke


How to take:
The patient keeps this in his or her mouth, often, and swallows a little every hour


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for sufferers of Melancholy and Mania

How to take:
Give 0.5 oz to the patient morning and evening 2 hours before eating , after purging (cura universale).


How to take:
When needed, crush them, palce the powder on the wound and the good bone will look white, and the bad, black.


Name of Recipe:
For those who have scratched themselves and produced a sore


How to take:
Rub on the kidneys and beneath the penis.


Name of Recipe:
Another remedy for burning urine (part two of 1526)


How to take:
Squeeze one mixture into the canal of the penis. Place the 'raticela o zitbo' of a lamb this on the lower part of the belly, and around the base of his penis and leave to cool.

Comment:
Note that these are all implicitly addressed to male sufferers.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for someone with epilepsy who has fallen

How to take:
Soak balls of wool in the mixture and place in the nostrils.


Name of Recipe:
A remedy against poison. Better than common theriac


How to take:
Heat up an iron griddle or plate and throw the mixture on top in the room in which the patient is lying, so he or she will breathe it in.


How to take:
Apply to the wound, hold it over,  and you will soon see it.


Name of Recipe:
For an inflamation or pain after a wound has healed


Name of Recipe:
How to purge a wound and extract objects from them


Name of Recipe:
For bruises on the head, with or without broken bones.


How to take:
Give to drink with water, 2 oz at a time morning and evening. This will also bring on a woman's menses.


Name of Recipe:
How to dry out humidity of the 'vuola' and gums.


How to take:
Clean the ear and drip in these mixtures.


Name of Recipe:
For problems (vitii) with the ears caused by water entering them


How to take:
Give half a gotto daily to the patient for 3 days. Then for the next three give them 1 drm of ginger soaked in vinegar at the same time of day.  Then put them to bed, cover them well so they sweat.


Name of Recipe:
Something which provides protection from  poison.`

How to take:
You must take care not to eat strongly scented foods or very sweet foods, because the bitterness and smell of the poison will be hidden by this. If you should eat poison, drink the seeds in wine and you will be fine.


Name of Recipe:
For One who is spitting up blood because of a ruptured vein

How to take:
First perform the universal evacuation. Then drink the medicine.


Name of Recipe:
For poor (evil?) colour in the face and for asthma


How to take:
Bathe the affected area with pieces of linen dipped in the juice.


Name of Recipe:
For the swellings on the joints which remain after the pain of gout


How to take:
Give 1/2 a spoonful daily in the morning then drink a little red wine in which sage has been boiled. Repeat until the problem is solved.


How to take:
Place the poultice on the stomach and give the patient 5-6 oz of the oil mixture.


How to take:
Give some the patient, to put under the tongue. Make him/her  spit often.


Name of Recipe:
For painful headaches caused by the heat or the cold

How to take:
Purge the body and head first, then smear the first oitnment on the head and put drops of ciclamen in the nose. Or put the cold lineament on the head.


Name of Recipe:
For vision problems (All'imagini del vedere)


How to take:
Drink the powder in broth, and apply a poultice.


How to take:
Wash the 'mase' twice a day with the decotion and use the ointment.


How to take:
Drink 0.5 oz of the aneto with good wine, or drink the juice.


Name of Recipe:
For impotence of the 'membro gratiale' (Penis)


How to take:
First draw blood from the vena basilica, and in case you suffer from retention of urine afterwards, draw blood from the saphena, then place the ointment over the painful area.


How to take:
Put the ointment over the bite and don't allow the wound to  heal.

Comment:
This is specially useful for hard bodies. For the softer bodies of women and children make a liquid with olio irino.


Name of Recipe:
For hard abscesses, warts, swellings and hard breasts (1)


Name of Recipe:
For hard abscesses, warts, swellings and hard breasts (2)


Name of Recipe:
For heal the King's evil and hard abscesses


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for those who fear melancholy humors (alla paura dell'umor melancolico)

How to take:
The patient must take one block, the size of a chestnut, every evening, 2 hours before eating.


Name of Recipe:
A mixture for vision problems (imagini del vedere)

How to take:
Take half a spoonful every evening before sleep. In the summer, temper with zucchero rosato. Use the second water to drop in the eyes twice a day.


How to take:
Give half a spoonful two hours after dining daily.


Name of Recipe:
To keep the belly loose when suffering from ailments of eyes.

How to take:
Take 1.5  dr of this 'theriac' daily on an empty stomach


How to take:
Wash the eyes in this.  If needed add white gall without opium.


How to take:
Use as eye drops. Also, wash the eyes often with distilled water of fenugreek.


Name of Recipe:
For blows to the eyes and a stained neck


How to take:
Apply to the 'parte dietro del corpo.' (Back of the body)


How to take:
The patient should drink seeds of Bengwine  in good white wine.


Name of Recipe:
To heal an old menstrual period. (flusso antico delli mesi)


How to take:
Dip a piece of linen in the water and place over the sting.


Name of Recipe:
For cold and weakness of the kidneys, back pain and lack of interest in coitus

Cause/Description of ailment:
There is also a lack of interest in coitus

How to take:
Eat these roots on an empty stomach, 1 oz at a time.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for vomiting caused by cold humors


Name of Recipe:
For bruises to the eyes without wounds or incisions


How to take:
First purge the patient, then put in the eye drops


Name of Recipe:
For sores in the ears which obstruct hearing

How to take:
Dip pieces of cloth in the mixture and place in the ears.


Name of Recipe:
For breathing difficulties caused by the cold

How to take:
Give the fig drink to drink daily. Or, take 3 oz of the oregano water daily.


How to take:
Dip pieces of linen in the mixture and put on the woman's genitals.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for a falling vuola and swelling of the palate

How to take:
Use the water to gargle and rinse the mouth three or four times a day.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy For a protruding belly button in children


How to take:
Give the patient 1.5 oz at a time with water infused with noce moscato


How to take:
Rub on the nerves and sinews and the back of the neck.


How to take:
Place the soaked pieces of linen over the legs.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for marks left by blows (percosse dele vestigi)


How to take:
Give to drink twice a day, 2 oz at a time and soak the hair with the water.


How to take:
Use the oil to rub over the affected area.


Name of Recipe:
For the ill disposition which preceeds dropsy and for obstructions of the mesaraicall veins

How to take:
Give two oz to the patient with wine or broth.


How to take:
Give 1 oz at least 2 hours before eating


How to take:
Give the patient 1 before eating with a little wine


How to take:
The patient takes an amount the size of a bean with plantain water


How to take:
Give to drink morning and evening 2-3 oz at a time. Only give as much of the water made from the leaves as can fit into an egg shell


How to take:
The patient must gargle with the mixture


Name of Recipe:
To ease the distress which accompanies fevers and induce sleep

How to take:
Use the water to rub on the patient's feet.


How to take:
Eat with the rice water, 2 drms at a time, or make clysters.


How to take:
Give the patient 3 oz morning and evening


How to take:
Wash yourself there with plantain water and smear the salve on your buttocks (sedere)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for passione iliaca ('Illiaco dolore' is obstruction of the small guts, causing a painful wringing in the belly. JF)


Name of Recipe:
For extruding intestines (uscir fuori dello cesso)

How to take:
Rub the juice over the anus, or put the powder inside.


How to take:
Eat the pills, or drink the other mixtures


How to take:
Bathe the uterus with any of the juices.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for flesh which grows out of the nails


Name of Recipe:
Remedy which will cause scaly nails to fall off


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to remove the blackness of wounds


How to take:
Give the patient the rennet to drink in vinegar. Thyme, savorie can also be given likewise.


How to take:
Rub on the spleen when the patient gets out of the bath.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy against flux caused by dysentery (or lientericall flux)


Name of Recipe:
How to remove thorns or arrowheads from the flesh

How to take:
Place over the area like a plaster and 'per occulta virtu' it will pull out the object, as will crushed crab.


How to take:
Give to drink in wine. The woman must immediately have coitus with her husband. Eating cooked goose testicles first will help.


How to take:
Give to the woman morning and evening, 2-3 oz at a time


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for tumori ficosi (crests of piles) in the anus


Cause/Description of ailment:
Due to  excess moisture the person  cannot pronouce clearly

How to take:
Take a walnut sized amount and place under the tongue


Comment:
Can be used for other pains caused by cold


How to take:
The woman should eat the seeds in her food, or the herb cooked in any way. Nigella seeds will do the same cook in wine and drunk.

Comment:
(English translation is 'to drie up milke in the brests'. Why so different? I know milk is seen as converted from excess blood but…)


Name of Recipe:
To diminish the phlegm in the body and increase the amount  of blood

Ailment/Condition (E):
Humoral imbalance (excess phlegm, blood etc.)

How to take:
The patient must eat 7 drams of raisins every day for 6 days before meals.


Comment:
I believe that many doctors say that eastern amber helps conception. However, in my experience I have found that it is of little help, however, if you take the oil of balsam, dip the tip of a (stile) pencil in it and touch the mouth of the womb, this is a real remedy. However, you take care that the oil is not fake but real. You will be able to tell by dropping a drop in water. IF it sinks, it is real. And, if you put it one a piece of linen it will not leave a stain.


Name of Recipe:
For pains caused by dislocated joints and for swellings


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for bone punctures or the stings (spine) of dead snakes


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for weariness after great exertion and painful limbs


How to take:
Drink the boiled herbs for nausea and windyness. Or the person can smell the fresh herb to get rid of the hicoughs.


Name of Recipe:
For great pain.
(forti dolori del corpo)


How to take:
Put droplets in the nose, or mixed with wine, in the ears.


Name of Recipe:
How to dissolve the scabs left by Mal Francese


Name of Recipe:
For tumors in women's stomach which make them appear pregnant

How to take:
Drink 1 dr each time, morning and evening.


How to take:
Put on the face before going to bed and remove in the morning with tepid water


How to take:
Give the powdered iris to drink in the wine. You can also give it whilst giving a purging medicine.


How to take:
Rub on the area between the testicles and anus


How to take:
Rub any of these on the face. Leave overnight and rinse off with acqua di semola in the morning.


Name of Recipe:
For swellings resulting from blows/bangs


How to take:
Mix equal parts of oil. Wash the head and then rub on the oils twice.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for pleurisy, to make the patient spit

Comment:
La farai uscir all infermo per lambitivo


How to take:
All these powders or ashes can be placed on the sores


Name of Recipe:
For wounds which had closed but re-open due to a rotton bone


Name of Recipe:
For poor digestion (All mala cottione) caused by coldness in the stomach

How to take:
Give 2 spoonfuls in the morning and  evening before bed


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for lost or diminshed ability to smell

How to take:
The patient should first be purged, then smell any of the herbs noted, mixed with vinegar. Or, the cyclamen juice placed in the nostrils


How to take:
First rub on the blood, then one of the salves.


Name of Recipe:
For chapped buttocks (ragadie o fenditure del sedere)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy against a stinking mouth or breath caused by the stomach or anything else

Aims of Remedy:
This mixture is against a bad stomach (mal di stomacho) and produces a delicate, lovely (amoroso) breath

How to take:
Someone suspecting the plague should take this, and the lovely scent will defend everyone from the plague and corrputed airs.

Comment:
This is the first recipe and is preceeded by a short introduction: 
Havendo benigno lettor mio gia fa molti anni non gia con poche mie fatiche dilettationi de radunare e cumulare insieme diverse e varie sorte di recette esperimentate, le quale te insegnaranno di molti bellissimi secreti, e havendole io mostrate e consultate con molti miei amici, li quali m'hanno pregato anzi constretto che per beneficio universale io le debbia mettere in stampa accio che loro insieme con quelli che se dilettano de simile virtute ne possino havere copia. Et cosi in satisfation sua ho deliberato di far stampare el mio sopradetto Recetario da lo quale ciascheduno ne potra prendere molta ulilita e piacere. La quale opera sara divisa in tre Recettari, nel primo saranno scritte de molte utilissime ricette, le quale anchora saranno per dar piacere come ne la presente opera vederete. Poi ne lo secondo Ricettario vederete scritti de molti dignissimi secreti circa a l'arte delli soavissimi e confortativi odori come ne la opera vederete, Et terzo e ultimo Recettario trattara di alcuni secreti necessari a la salute de li corpi humani che veramente ciascun di loro valeno uno tesoro, perche certamente se non fussero li secreti de l'arte medicinale molto piu breve saria la nostra vita, e pero vivi e sta sano.


Name of Recipe:
For those wishing to know whether the man or woman is the cause when a woman cannot fall pregnant after a long time

How to take:
The man and woman urinate over one of the bowls containing bran (semola). There will be worms in the bowl of the person who is infertile.


Name of Recipe:
To ensure that a man or woman has a good memory

How to take:
Take every morning an amount the size of a nut (nocella) for one month


Name of Recipe:
To have a good voice for singing, making a speech,  for disputations or reading in 'carega'


Name of Recipe:
A powder to whiten and clean teeth which purifies catarrh, heals toothache and firms the teeth

How to take:
Rub the mixture over the teeth, or ask someone to do it for you, since they can see where they are dirty, and they will turn white. Also keep it in your mouth if you have a painful tooth.


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that grapes and pomegranates keep all year


Name of Recipe:
To make a powder which, placed on paper, rubbed with the fingers and written upon with water, becomes black as soot


Name of Recipe:
How to see the stars from midday, or whenever you like during the day


Name of Recipe:
How to tell whether a man or woman is a virgin or not-I mean, whether they have sown their seed or not

How to take:
Measure the circumference of the throat, and cut off the rest of the thread. With that measure, put one end at their head and measure the length of their head down to the beard. If it doesn't reach, the person is a virgin. If it goes further, they are not. Because as the person becomes corrupted, the throat thickens and the head shortens. You can try this with a child between the age of 9 and 13, certainly virgins, and those who are not, and you will find that it works.


Name of Recipe:
How to burn a handkerchief, so that when it has burned it will not have been damaged or balckened at all


Name of Recipe:
How to know the size of a man or woman's foot without measuring it


Name of Recipe:
How to make a candle go out with a bang, causing  amazment, fear, a great outcry so that you can act secretly; kiss your lover, or steal the food


Name of Recipe:
How to put a hen's egg inside a glass flask


Name of Recipe:
How to revive the colour of wool or silk cloth which doesn't have grana in it


Name of Recipe:
How to wash scarlet cloth and remove stains


Name of Recipe:
How to refresh 'zendado' (Sendal or Taffeta sarcenet JF) so it seems new


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe to stop toothache from returning

How to take:
Take a mouthful of the wine and keep on the painful side


Name of Recipe:
How to remove or lose hair from anywhere on the body

How to take:
To use, go to a stuffa or a hot room and smear the medicine over the area to be depilated. When the skin feels hot wash quickly with hot water so the flesh doesn't come off (non si spelasse)


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which hardens and tempers iron so it will cut iron as if it were wood


Name of Recipe:
How to grow a beard, or tough bristle (pelli calli)

How to take:
Smear the mixture over the area several times.


Name of Recipe:
How to make paper black so you can write on it without ink


Name of Recipe:
How to make bait so as to attract many doves to your dove cot


How to take:
Dip a piece of cotton (cotton wool?) in the mixture and rub the teeth


Name of Recipe:
How to solder (saldar) glass work or cristal work


Name of Recipe:
How to make a window which will seem like glass and make the room lighter than glass would


Name of Recipe:
How to make wine take on the taste of muscat grapes (moscatello)


Name of Recipe:
Another way to give wine the flavour of muscat grapes


Name of Recipe:
How to make a bunch of grapes fresh and perfect to eat at Christmas time as if you had picked it in September. This is so you can make a gift of it.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a soap which will remove all marks from cloth

How to take:
Dampen the stain or mark with water on both sides of the cloth, rub with the balls and rub the cloth against cloth. Wash , rub and dry.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove a mark from a piece of scarlet or velvet cloth so it will not remove the dye


Name of Recipe:
How to remove oil marks from carta bergamina or bambasina which has been written on


Name of Recipe:
How to remove oil and grease marks from paper.


Name of Recipe:
How to make parchment from Kidskin azure or green or purplish yellow or black which you can write on in gold or silver. And I wil teach you to write with the gold


Name of Recipe:
How to write in gold and silver on all kinds of paper


Name of Recipe:
How to write and paint in gold, without using gold


Name of Recipe:
Another way to write in silver letters or use a brush wherever you want it to look like fine silver.


Name of Recipe:
How to write in invisible ink on paper or canvas, which will show as black letters with heat


Name of Recipe:
How to make 'oro musico' which will write well


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which when placed on glass allows you to see by night


Name of Recipe:
How to make a lovely 'verzin' for writing in four colours. First pink, paonazzo, violet and deep purple, which you can use to dye skins (pelle camozate) chamois leather? And everything else


Cause/Description of ailment:
Black haired people have naturally humid heads, which are easily dirtied.

How to take:
Rub the scalp with the hot bran, combing well. Or, without the bran, comb well and rub the hair with piecs of cloth, using different sized combs then rub with oil of ben which will give the colour and keep the hair clean.


How to take:
Wash the head well in the lessia, dry in the sun, and when nearly dry take melted white soap, and half a bowl of the lessia, bathe the hand in the soap and lessia, rub the hair, then dry and repeat 4-5 times, and repeat twice a week.


How to take:
Wash the hair in the lessia and the hair will grow in a few days


Name of Recipe:
How to remove i rosigoni which redden the hair

How to take:
Bathe the head with the mixture three or four times


How to take:
Wash your hair in this two or three times


How to take:
Rub this water over the unwanted hair, which will not regrow


Name of Recipe:
Another way to prevent hair from growing

How to take:
Wash the affected area to remove the hair


Name of Recipe:
How to make a white beard black and likewise the hair


How to take:
Wash your face with this and also drink it for good breath


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of wrinkles and have lovely skin

How to take:
Rub the cream onto your face well for 2-3 days.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which will whiten the face


How to take:
Rub on the face. But take care not to let it get in the eyes, as it will burn


Name of Recipe:
How to provoke menses in a woman who has lost them, or whose cycle has changed

How to take:
Give the woman a glass to drink for three mornings and this will produce their menses

Comment:
(Produr el suo tempo ad una donna che lo havesse perduto over variasse el tempo)


Name of Recipe:
How to restrict the flow of a woman if her flowers are too abundant

How to take:
Rub the first salve over the vulva, or petinecchio where the menses exit the body.
The second salve can be rubbed on the body and back.


How to take:
Rub on the skin on alternate evenings until healed. Rub on the palms of the hands and feet and in the armpits and behind the knees. When you have healed, have a bath in scented herbs.

Comment:
This salve is excellent and has been tried by several people


Name of Recipe:
How to make  a skin rash disappear from the face, or wherever it is.

How to take:
Rub the flakes over the face three or four times a day and at night leave them to soak.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a scented soap to use against Mange/scab Rogna

How to take:
Wash the hands with the soap balls and you will not get scab

Comment:
E tu hai inteso la ricetta che non hai inteso dentro cosa che te possi nuocere


Name of Recipe:
How to make a water which will remove every tentura and stain from the hands of artisans leaving them very white. Also for tanned/sunburnt skin

Comment:
And this water can be used on a face and hands which have been cooked in the sun


Name of Recipe:
How to stop fleas from biting you at night

How to take:
Put the felese on the straw under you head and in other places and the bugs will go on the felese and not annoy you.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a salve which will kill the fleas in a bed


Name of Recipe:
How to make sure there will be no pulesi (pulci? Fleas) in a room

How to take:
Sprinkle the water over the room every day for 4 days and you will not feel any more pulesi* on the floor.


Name of Recipe:
Another salve for killing fleas and piatole (cockroaches)

How to take:
Rub on the person, and the bugs/fleas will die


Name of Recipe:
How to make common ink (comun ingiostro venderesco)

Comment:
And be aware than those who make ink for the shops make it of rain water and three ingredients


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make raw ink from cistern water


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make perfect good quality ink


Name of Recipe:
How to tan a raw kid skin (camozar una caprina cruda)


Name of Recipe:
How to colour chamois leather and the leather used to bind books green


Name of Recipe:
How to make a beautiful yellow for leather or 'carton' for books


Name of Recipe:
Recipe for women who, having spun the 'ace' want to dye it several colours, firstly black


Name of Recipe:
How to make a fine spineda (Spinetta: Eglantine or sweet briar JF) grow in a garden or piece of land


Name of Recipe:
How to make a great number of sparesi  grow in a garden or piece of land


Name of Recipe:
A fine secret for the old and young to see well by night, write, study and do fine work.


Name of Recipe:
How to soften crystal so that you can make one out of many small pieces


Name of Recipe:
How to make a horse which could not urinate, pass water

How to take:
Take clear water, heat a little and give to the horse to drink.


Name of Recipe:
How to find a pavero ( the wick of the candle JF 1611) which will not get burnt in the flames


Name of Recipe:
Recipe for one who pisses  whilst asleep in bed

How to take:
Give a piece of the bread to the person everymorning, and then make another and repeat, for 15 days.


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether wine must /lees has water in it


Name of Recipe:
How to make a glue which can withstand fire and water


Name of Recipe:
How to make an excellent scented varnish of clear water which dries immediately to be applied with a brush to paper, wood and elsewhere.


Name of Recipe:
How to catch chickens, doves and other birds by hand


Name of Recipe:
How to make a bait which will kill the fish in the water immediately


How to take:
When the woman's menses stop, give her one of these pills wrapped in a little cendato,* or tied with thread and the woman inserts this pirola in her cervix when she goes to bed and leaves it until midnight, or as long as she can. This she does for three nights. But you must prepare many pieces, because much putrefaction will issue from her cervix. Then the woman should rest for three days, then bathe in scented herbs. When she gets out  from the bath, she should have this confection, (see recipe 1819) put it in a fresh egg and drink suso*. Then drink a glass of bovino,* then the woman should go to bed and stay warm, sleep with her husband and she will get pregnant.


Name of Recipe:
The confection given to a woman in order to become pregnant


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether a woman will have children or not

How to take:
Take the malva and make the woman urinate on it over three days. If the malva dies, she cannot have children.


Name of Recipe:
To know how many children a woman will have after giving birth for the first time

How to take:
When the first child is born and the midwife looks at the boligolo which is attached to the womb, (the umbelical cord) the number of nodules indicates how many children she can have. The fault will lie with her, not the man and there will be one fewer nodule for every child she has.
You can tell how many males she will have by counting how many hairs the first baby has (coronelle de capelli) .


Comment:
This is prefaced with a little introduction:
Discreet reader, having written you many recipes in this first recipe book, with diverse and various virtues, which I hope will be of use to you and of great benefit , in order to please you even more I will write some others which will please you.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a candle of snow which will burn


Name of Recipe:
How to make a candle which cannot be blown out


Name of Recipe:
How to make a candle of 'giazza'  which will burn


Name of Recipe:
How to make a ring which will jump about the house


Name of Recipe:
How to make Cooked meat look as if it is raw


Name of Recipe:
How to make cooked meat appear to be covered in worms


Name of Recipe:
How to make bunches of grapes appear in a room


Name of Recipe:
How to do something (una piacevolezza) so so that nobody will be able to go to bed at night


Name of Recipe:
How to make an empty room appear to have a 'cazason' in there


Name of Recipe:
How to give someone  hairy arms, or make other limbs hairy

How to take:
Rub this ointment where you want hairs to grow. You must do it regularly.


Comment:
This recipe is preceeded with this introduction:
Having written in this first recipe book so many wonderful recipes, dear kind read, which can be useful and pleasing to you, most of which have been tried and tested, (esperimentate) and the others which are for you to try yourself (esperimentare a te) so you may be pleased by them. And I still want to teach those who do not know how to make confections for their homes, which can be made cheaply, I will now proceed to show you.


Name of Recipe:
How to make perfect sweet melons or piponi (Meloni over pipone dolci e perfettissime)


Name of Recipe:
How to make a confection of orange peel which can be made all year round, but best done in May because the peels are thicker and bigger at that time


Name of Recipe:
To make a comfit of muscat pears (moscatelle)

Comment:
Note that all these confections should have a strong flavour of spices so they can be a remedy for the stomach.


Name of Recipe:
To make a Maraschino cherry comfit/confection

Comment:
All these confections will last for many years, but you must 'crescer' the honey and boil them a little.


Name of Recipe:
How to modify and break any kind of iron


Name of Recipe:
Another way to make a gozo (lump in the throat) go away

How to take:
that evening 4 hours after dinner take one piece and eat it, then sleep without drinking and repeat. Take one evening yes, one no, until finished. Repeat at the next moon if necessary.


Name of Recipe:
How to prepare roses so that placed in a chest with cloth they will have a sweet and comforting scent.

Comment:
Secondo recettario da saper componere diverse sorti de soavissimi et utili odori.

It adds at the end of the recipe: "if you don't want to spend a great deal, dry the roses as described, then take a jar of rosewater in which you place root of zio bianco and crushed cloves and crushed iris, and musk. Boil and little and then put over the roses and carry on as described.


Name of Recipe:
How to prepare gloves which will be scented like those owned by da gran Signore.


Name of Recipe:
How to make soap with scented roses to put in little pots (Albarelli)


Name of Recipe:
How to make an oil which renders the hands soft, smooth and which tightens the skin


Name of Recipe:
How to make a good barber's soap, spending little


Name of Recipe:
How to make a paste for fine scented paternosters


Name of Recipe:
How to make rose oil or any other oil from plants and to make it with such skill that it will be better than any others

Comment:
This is the first recipe in the first book:
Terzo recetario di alcuni secreti medicinali per guarir li corpi humani che vagliono piu che ogni thesoro, e se non fosse li secreti breve saria la vita nostra.


Name of Recipe:
How to make water from any plants, flowers and roots 'de ogni ragione'


Name of Recipe:
How to purify the blood, which will prevent every kind of infirmity, especially the French Disease, and for those who have some leprous scabs (rogne levrose) which ointments cannot clear up


Name of Recipe:
For all pains caused by the french disease, or gout, or any other


Name of Recipe:
A fine remedy for when you go to a place where plague is suspected


Name of Recipe:
To make a scented ball against the morbo.

How to take:
Carry the scented ball with you and 'non dubitare'


Name of Recipe:
A fine remedy to put on the 'afore mentioned 'mal di morbo'


Name of Recipe:
Recipe to help someone who is ill and has been abandoned by doctors because he hasn't eaten for so long (per esser stato tanto tempo alla dieta)


Name of Recipe:
How to make a distillation for the sick person above


Name of Recipe:
How to make someone wish to die, who has lost their sense because they speak so much 'che ordini li fatti suoi.'*


Name of Recipe:
Precious water for red eyes before they have flesh in the eye, or pearls, or mists. It will heal all


Name of Recipe:
Secret remedy to help those who have red eyes because they haven't slept or for some other reason


Name of Recipe:
How to make a precious oil which will heal every wound in 24 hours, great and small.


Name of Recipe:
Miraculous medicine for every time you get gout it will heal so well that it will (not0 come back. (che ogni volta chel te venissi le gote guariranno per fina che ritorneranno unaltra volta)

How to take:
Take 1.5 drms to 3 drms in the morning with chicken broth or white wine and water. Don't sleep immedieatly.


How to take:
Give the powdered skin and blood to the patient in chicken broth.


How to take:
Give the powders with broth in the morning.


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether your child suffers from worms

How to take:
Give 1 drm. to children in sweet wine or honey with rose. Give 1.5 drms to adults.

Comment:
Use your tongue to lick the forehead. If it is salty, this means the child has worms. Then put your mouth half in his mouth, and if his breath smells, this is also a sign of worms. The third sign is if the eyes shine more than normally.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for Mal della Scorentia. (running flux, loose bowels?)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for sores on the penis or in a woman's cervix due to overheating

How to take:
Bathe affected area with a piece of cotton dipped in the water.


How to take:
When the fever starts  go to bed, take a cup and heat it and put the incense over it and the stove with the hot wine. Lie on your back and 'fatti infossar' hot as it is and then drink the malvasia with spices. Cover yourself well, sweat and sleep. Repeat three times.


Name of Recipe:
How make a headache disappear immediately

How to take:
Put your nose in the bowl and breathe in deeply, so the water goes in your nose.


Name of Recipe:
How to heal sores on legs:  (gambe schincate)


Name of Recipe:
How to heal gozze (lumps? Spots?) on the face


How to take:
Put the powder on the wound and it will dry up.


How to take:
First wash the mouth with hot vinegar, with sage cooked in it, then put the powders on the teeth


Name of Recipe:
Remedy against tightness in the chest and a cough


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for painful bowel movements and for diarrhorea


Name of Recipe:
To heal invisible haemorrhoids (maroelle)

How to take:
Rub on the haemorrhoids twice a day and you will be freed from this affliction


How to take:
Rub the scrovole hard with the hands until they redden, then smear them with the oil every morning.


Name of Recipe:
How to improve old people's sight and that of young people

How to take:
Bathe the eyes with this morning, evening and midday. After 15 days your sight will be like a 15 year olds'


Name of Recipe:
How to remove scars left by wounds or from birth


Name of Recipe:
How to heal a broken nose caused by humours

How to take:
Put this fat on with a feather/plume several times


Name of Recipe:
A remedy  to remove freckles and spots (gospi)? on the nose


How to take:
When you go to bed put your ear over the mixture and let the steam penetrate for an hour. Then take out the herbs and place in the ear whilst you are in bed, keeping well covered.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove uno ferro di vereton di frizza or a thorn without iron

How to take:
Put the mixture where the iron or thorn is and it will come out.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a wonderful water which will destroy the gosi che vien contra natura a li huomini e donne

How to take:
Bathe the goso several times a day and it will disappear


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that a person will stay healthy all year round

How to take:
Drink daily on an empty stomach throughout the month of May and nothing will ail you all year.


How to take:
Dip a piece of botton in the oil, put in the ear many times.


Name of Recipe:
For sores on the leg or other sores which proceed from the heat of the liver

How to take:
Wash the sores with that water and dry them with fine cloth, then rub the pork fat on them


How to take:
Give half a glass to the woman each morning. As soon as she has drunk it, have the powder of old shoes ready and burn it and make the patient stand over the smoke and she will heal


How to take:
Give to drink to the patient for 8 mornings


How to take:
Place hot on the painful area, changing three or four times


How to take:
Rub over the painful area, then put a hot cloth over, as hot as you can bear, and repeat.


Name of Recipe:
For gonorrhoea (la scolatione) or over heating of the kidneys

How to take:
Give to the patient for three mornings, making sure they take some of the corals. Annoint the kidneys with Galen's unguent


Name of Recipe:
For kidney stones and other urinary problems


How to take:
Place on the forcella of the stomach over the umbelical


How to take:
When the fever starts, give to the patient to drink.


Name of Recipe:
For cracked nipples (sedolle?)  on women's breasts

How to take:
Rub this on the cracks . IT is also good for chapped hands.


How to take:
Take a piece of linen cloth, rub it hard over the affected area until heated. Then take the salve and smear over the area when you go to bed in the evening and in the morning if you can


Name of Recipe:
How to use Malva and peach leaves for the health of the whole body

How to take:
MALVA: In the morning, on an empty stomach take 2 drms in broth. 
Drink the peach leaf juice


Name of Recipe:
To protect women, so they will not die during childbirth

How to take:
Christ's palm should be worn by the woman who touches the flesh, to prevent death in childbed.
An emerald worn around the neck, so that it touches the belly, ritiene il concetoo, but the woman must beware of tiring movements.
The Pietra Aquilina worn on the left arm also protects her from death. But when the moment for labour comes, it should be removed from the arm and tied around the leg

Comment:
The remedy is actually for 'donne, che non disperdano'.


Name of Recipe:
How to know how many children a woman will bear

How to take:
When the first born has been born and held by the midwife, look at the nodes on the umbelical which ties to the womb and count them. The woman will have as many children as there are nodules and if there are no nodes, she will have no more children and the fault will be hers, not the man's. And every time she gives birth, she looses a nodule
(See also source 5 Dificio delle Ricette)


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether a woman will give birth to a boy or girl

How to take:
If, when pregnant, the woman feels the baby move on the right side, and that side is swollen, it will be a boy. If the pregnant woman's milk is dense and viscous, it means a boy, if watery, a girl. If the woman if red in the face, irritable, it is a male. Is the right breast is bigger and harder, it is male. This is Aristotle's opinion in the 'problemi'.


Name of Recipe:
(First part illegible, will not bear children)


Name of Recipe:
To ensure that someone who is about to die, and has lost their senses is able to talk enough to leave their possessions etc. in order (ordina I fatti suoi)

How to take:
Take a hot bedban, or 'testo' and heat the sick person's head with it, so that the brain feels the heat. Hold for two  credos and then, with God's help, he will begin to speak.


Name of Recipe:
How to know when a sick person is about to die

How to take:
It is a sign of death when the sick person laughs without any reason, touches the hem of his clothes and palpates his coverlet, and doesn't mind how he appears. And when he lies still in the bed, on his back, and his pulse is uneven and trembling. 
If nettles bathed with his urine dries, it is a sign he will die. Also know that in his pupils you will see the image of his life's hopes.
When children grow quickly, are more intelligent than normal at their age, this is a sign they will not live long. 
When the sick person watches people fixedly, it is a sign of death. And in all this there is God's will, we put ourselves in his hands, he is blessed.


How to take:
Put the plaster over the boil, changing the plaster often.


Name of Recipe:
How to make a salve which will attract, and a seal for burst plague boils


How to take:
Put the excrement on the boil and it will soon open


Name of Recipe:
How to heal sores and boil which often appear on the penis

How to take:
Dip the pieces of linen in this and put on the sores twice a day


Name of Recipe:
To mortify a carbuncle and make it leave the skin quickly with all its roots


How to take:
During times of plague, before eating breakfast,  take three heads of rue , a nut , the dry fig and the garlic clove and eat them. Smear the oil on your pulses and temples and around the nose. Try and stay in God's grace {….} and do not leave the house until the sun has rised, because before this the air is dangerous. This has been tried many times by myself and others


Comment:
This is the last of the natural secrets. (secreti naturali.)
The rest of the pamphlet contains firstly questions and answers : such as, why do women eat bricks and coal in the early months of pregnancy
Why are short men usually wiser than tall men.
Why country folk and idiots often have intelligent children
Why stones sink in water. Etc.

Finally a section on the wine harvest: When to do it, how, what do do with sour grapes, how to bottle, etc.


How to take:
Apply the pieces of cloth bathed in the juice to the forehead and temples


Name of Recipe:
For a Swollen tongue and elongated ulula

How to take:
Applied to the tongue it will reduce swelling

Comment:
These are all numbered in the text and index, the page numbers are not much help since there are about 10 recipes per page


Name of Recipe:
To lubricate the body (Loosen hard stools)


How to take:
Rub on the pulses and body and around the nose


How to take:
Apply to the forehead. Also, hold cold water in the mouth


How to take:
Apply warm animal grease to the umbelical to loosen the stools


Name of Recipe:
Another to loosen the body( stools) and to tighten/firm stools

How to take:
Undercooked cabbage lubricates the stools, well cooked firms them.


How to take:
Put the salve on a piece of cloth and hold over the reddened eye. After four evenings it will be well.


How to take:
A sneeze stops hiccups because it causes sudden fear


Name of Recipe:
For sussusione and things impeding the vision.


How to take:
Place the damp cloths over the hemmoroids


Name of Recipe:
How to make fresh water and salt from sea water


Cause/Description of ailment:
For nerves weakend through bangs, blows, or catarrh


Name of Recipe:
How to make a lantern last 8 days with only one gazzetta of oil


How to take:
Spread over a piece of cloth and apply to the hot painful area


Name of Recipe:
For strangling/choking or a cord round the neck


How to take:
Put at the back of the neck and on the joint of the skull


How to take:
Soak the nail in lisiazzo, then take a little knife and cut the nail down to the quick, and so the nail will shrink and come away from the flesh gradually


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for 'porotide' and cold swellings/lumps


Name of Recipe:
How to make a candle wick which costs nothing and which will not stink when you extinguish it.


How to take:
Place pieces of cloth bathed in tepid malvasia over their bellies.


How to take:
place over the eyes to remove the bruising


Name of Recipe:
How to mature pustles and pimples and scrofula

How to take:
Place the mixture on the scrofula and cicolini


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of zampane (could be gripe; JF 1611)


How to take:
Put the herb in the beans to attract and multiply the bees


Name of Recipe:
To make sure that bees and wasps don't sting you


Name of Recipe:
How to make your wine taste like moscato


Name of Recipe:
How to stop excessive menstrual bleeding


Name of Recipe:
How to drink a great deal without getting drunk


Name of Recipe:
For feet which have swollen during a voyage


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent the cold from damaging the face


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent the sun from damaging the face


How to take:
Use this water in the evening and in the morning wash with fresh water


Name of Recipe:
How to remove thorns and splinters from the flesh


Name of Recipe:
For the pain caused by haemorrhoids and burns


How to take:
Take for five mornings on an empty stomach


How to take:
Place these on the scrofulous growths which will burst in 24 hours and pull the scrofole away one after the other through this hole then medicate the hole or wound with unguento rasino and you will remain free of it with no marks.


Name of Recipe:
How to make meat appear as if it is raw, although it has been well-cooked


Name of Recipe:
How to counterfeit rubies of every colour


Name of Recipe:
For inflammed testicles and St. Anthony's fire

How to take:
Apply to the inflammed area and testicles to remove pain and heal


How to take:
Rub on the hair and leave for 3 hours then wash with lessia


How to take:
Put an amount the size of a chickpea over the tooth to remove the pain


How to take:
Be careful to clean the teeth of any chalky material there is, in the gums, which is why they are bleeding. First touch with oil of sulpher in the morning and then do the rest in the evening. Then wash the mouth in fresh water.


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

How to take:
Give half a dramm of the 'seed' in wine.


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that an underweight coin weighs enough


Comment:
You take orpimento, flower of piuma and white ellebores powedered, scatter it around the dance floor or in the musicians cups, and everyone will sneeze no one will be able ot dance.


Name of Recipe:
For fleshyness (carnosita-swellings?) on the penis

How to take:
Ponera poco a poco su la candeletta and it will swiftly eat the fleshyness, placing in the penis so it touches it . (Presumably candeletta is euphemism for penis?)


Name of Recipe:
How to heal sores and ulcers on a man's penis


Name of Recipe:
To mature boils and sores (tenconi e aposteme)


How to take:
Take one each night after dinner when going to bed


Name of Recipe:
How to keep wine and prevent it from going musty


Name of Recipe:
For the crusts and boils of mal francese


Name of Recipe:
To prevent hair from falling out (Caused by mal francese)


Name of Recipe:
So that the vineyard or field will be fertile


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that a vine or tree smells of musk


Name of Recipe:
For receeding gums (Corrosione de le zenzive)


How to take:
Rub on the face and hands for a wonderful effect.


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that the burn does not leave any scars


Name of Recipe:
How to know whether someone has  poisoned the food on the table


Name of Recipe:
For a weak stomach which cannot hold down food


How to take:
Rub the ointment on the mouth of the stomach (bocca del stomaco)


Name of Recipe:
For someone who is spitting /coughing up blood


Comment:
(Expertum e probatum) is added on the remedy


Name of Recipe:
How to make a woman urinate, against her will


Name of Recipe:
For those who fall from a height and are in pain

How to take:
Place warm on the painful area, make the patient lie down for two days


Name of Recipe:
How to kill grubs (pedicelli) which come on the hand

How to take:
Hold the hand over the smoke and they will die.


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that a woman will conceive

How to take:
Give to drink with the wine. 'cesante el mestruo e concepita'


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


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent wine from becoming too strong


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


Name of Recipe:
How to gather all the pulesi (pulci?) in a room on a stick


Name of Recipe:
How to tell si la femina e grossa quello che ha da far


How to take:
Take the Juice of the celidonia and rub on the rash and it will go away.


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


How to take:
Take a good half glass and drink it, and wrap the herb around the knees three times


Name of Recipe:
How to turn wine which has turned to vinegar back into wine


Name of Recipe:
How to make a sauce in powder which will last for 2 years

Comment:
I think this is a sauce for food-an early kind of 'ready' sauce. Just add vinegar to use. Una salsa in polvere


Name of Recipe:
How to ensure that a hen will not run away….


Name of Recipe:
How to make a marrow grow in just four hours


Name of Recipe:
How to expel bladder stones through the urine

How to take:
Drink in the morning on an empty stomach.


How to take:
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.


Name of Recipe:
How to revive the colour of a washed black cloth


Name of Recipe:
The colour of purple lilies for illuminating (miniare)


Name of Recipe:
Remedy to protect onself from or heal Tertiary fever:

How to take:
Drink and eat the pips and repeat often on an empty stomach


How to take:
Use this water to wash the hair several times.


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


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for sciatica and other similar pains

How to take:
Rub the painful area with the oil, standing as near to the fire as possible, applying it every so often.
Make a foment and apply.


How to take:
Tie coarse thread around the little finger of the left hand, and this will stop blood from flowing from the nose.


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


Name of Recipe:
How to make Siviglia ( A kind of tobacco)


Name of Recipe:
How to bleach linen and hemp cloth in 8 days


Name of Recipe:
How to tan hides with no hair on and whiten them: (For use as clothing, gloves, etc.)


Comment:
White leather trousers are washed with a little soap.


Name of Recipe:
How to redye black leather. (as in clothing-trousers mentioned)


Name of Recipe:
How to stop black leather from leaving stains


How to take:
Drink it when the fever starts and carry on taking it.


Name of Recipe:
How to make an excellent Polvere da Stioppo

Comment:
Assumption of course that you know what this is for.


Name of Recipe:
How to get rid of bladder stones when urinating

How to take:
Drink two spoonfuls, and repeat after a certain amount of time.


Comment:
It is the fruit of a plant which is similar to semprevivo, and the fruit is made like a pine cone, of a pale yellowish colour. It has all the taste of fruit and is eaten for desert. They come from the Indies, and they grow them here in hot places with very careful attention to their cultivation. This fruit is extremely rare and is given as a gift, since it is so rare, and I saw two which were given to his Highness.


Name of Recipe:
Turquoise cloth, and other kinds. How to wash it.


Name of Recipe:
How to make 'Marmo scaiola' (Marbled limestone? )


Name of Recipe:
Calf-hide and vacchetta. How to dye it black


How to take:
Rub the hair with this and the nits will grow, and then you will be able to remove them with a comb.


Name of Recipe:
Something which will make you pass your stools

How to take:
Place in the anus, which will hurt a little, but it will work.


Name of Recipe:
A ruptured gall bladder (Spargimento di fiele) A sure way to cure it

How to take:
Drink in the morning on an empty stomach and repeat three times. But the second morning take after leaving for 2 days, the third morning after a day of rest. Be careful that the illness is not too advanced and the patient should be able to move about after having taken it, which will help it work better.


Name of Recipe:
Sale volatile; how to make them. (Smelling salts?)


How to take:
Drink it. Afterwards 'si aiuti con brodo sopra.' (Drinking the broth after this will help?)


How to take:
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.


Name of Recipe:
How to tan embossed leather (corame) or suolo.


Name of Recipe:
Decotion for the teeth, for rinsing the mouth out when the teeth are rotton


How to take:
Rinse the mouth with a little of this often


How to take:
Take 3 spoonfuls in the morning on an empty stomach, with two spoonfuls of water and continue for 8 days


Name of Recipe:
Antimony liver, colour of a rotting leaf (fogliamarcia)


Name of Recipe:
A cream for washing the hands and softening them


Name of Recipe:
Varnish made from copal gum. (Vernice di gomma copale)


Name of Recipe:
A varnish for sticking images onto glass


Name of Recipe:
Another easier plaster for attaching marble


Name of Recipe:
Gold; how to recognise whether it is real or false


Name of Recipe:
Cheeks;  how to keep them fresh (carni, modo di mantenerle fresche)

How to take:
Place two slices of meat on your cheeks in the evening when going to bed


Name of Recipe:
Headaches, dizziness, epilepsy, migranes (emicrania)


How to take:
Rub on the gum and the gum around the tooth will disappear. (sparera)


Name of Recipe:
How to extract dye from minerals and corals


Name of Recipe:
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How to take:
It heals within 24 hours, every wound, if you first wash it in wine. Applied to the temples, it clears headaches; deal deafness by applying to the ear with warm cotton. It heals stomach aches and stops vominting, applied to the stomach it helps the digestion; it heals stomach pains, especially colics, and suffocation of the womb if applied over the belly. It relieves paralisis and every pain from the cold if you apply it on pieces of warm cloth:it heals estonsione of the nerves, applied hot; an excellent remedy for difficulty in urinating applied hot on the bertebre and drinking white wine. It is excellent for sciatic applied hot, it heals the bites of mad dogs and other unpleasant animals, if the wound if first clean with wine, and the hot balsam applied afterwards.

Comment:
Notice here the healing method is fully humoral; suffocation of the womb, etc. This looks as if copied from Alessio.


Name of Recipe:
How to recognise whether a woman is pregnant


How to take:
Give 1 oz to cavalli bolsi and to purge them.


Name of Recipe:
Paste for the intaglio on picture frames; which can later be gilded


How to take:
Peel the garlic clove and place in the anus


Name of Recipe:
Dizziness when standing (stravolta di piedi). How to cure

How to take:
As soon as it happens, put the feet in cool water for a quarter of an hour, or running river water.


Name of Recipe:
How to cast medals so fine you can recognise even the subject's hair


Name of Recipe:
How to put silver plate on copper and brass


Name of Recipe:
Another way of silver plating copper and brass


Name of Recipe:
How to give tin the sound and beauty of silver


Name of Recipe:
How to purge and whiten Copper. Excellent for waste from bells


Name of Recipe:
How to put silver on mirrors or glass balls


Name of Recipe:
Another way to put silver on mirrors, or convex or concave objects


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


Name of Recipe:
How to gild with silver or copper powder


Name of Recipe:
How to engrave wood with letters or patterns


Name of Recipe:
How to make sapphires and jacinths look like diamonds


Name of Recipe:
How to remove smoke residues from paintings


Name of Recipe:
How to make paintings look as if they are antique


Name of Recipe:
How to remove oil from woollens and velvet


Name of Recipe:
How to remove wax from cloth and shoes and elsewhere


Name of Recipe:
How to make woollens and fine cloth (drappo)  from offcuts


Name of Recipe:
How to make sparrows go mad .( par farle impazzire)

Aims of Remedy:
To make them fall off the trees, presumably to then eat them.


Name of Recipe:
The real way to make cimento (a mixture of salts and other materials used for purifying precious metals)


Name of Recipe:
How to break and multiply any kind of precious stone


Name of Recipe:
How to make a single crystal from many pieces


Name of Recipe:
Crystal for making cups, rings and so on.


Name of Recipe:
How to stick many small pieces of amber together


Name of Recipe:
How to make hair re-grow when it has fallen out


Name of Recipe:
How to make plaster figures (stucchini) like those of nuns.


Name of Recipe:
How to apply cold silver plate to copper and brass


How to take:
Apply in the evening on alternate evenings-it will heal in three evenings


Name of Recipe:
How to remove oil stains from cloth without wetting it


Name of Recipe:
How to make a pomander of orange flowers


Name of Recipe:
A Wax figure which floats (?) (che resti a mezzo a due acque)


Name of Recipe:
How to cure someone who has suffered great fear or fright


How to take:
Take 8-10 before lunch and before going to sleep on alternate days. They are good for the stomach and the limbs.


How to take:
Put oil on the burn and a little saline and bind.


How to take:
Put the elm bark over them and they will heal in two days.


Name of Recipe:
How to heal a skin rash (volatiche=large red itchy patches on the skin)


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


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


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


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

Comment:
This suggests that by adding various chemicals, and dung to the ground, you will benefit in 5 ways:
no worms will grow in the earth
You will have no need of dung
You will be able to sow without letting the fields lie fallow
You will need half as much seed
It doubles the produce of beans and peas.


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


Name of Recipe:
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


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


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


How to take:
Take two in the evening two hours before eating. Drink a drop of decotion of melissa with it.


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

How to take:
Take In the morning just after getting up, then do some exercise.


Name of Recipe:
So called Pampepato with half the flavour


Name of Recipe:
So called refined Pampepato (sopraffino)

Comment:
These recipes for pampepato follow the method used in the shop run by Signor Bernardino Niccoletti.


Comment:
Steel filings are added to make this suitable for medicinal purposes. The recipe is the same as that used by il signor Vicario Sensi.


Comment:
This can be kept for several years, if one choose a generous white wine, like that of Spain, which above all others does not go off.


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

How to take:
Take the Etiope Martiale mixed with the cinnamon and sugar morning and evening on an empty stomach. (2 hours before dining in the evening) 
If another tonic is needed, take a  cold infusion of China china in water, shaking the vase frequently. (1 oz:32 of water)
After 24 hours, begin to take it without shaking it up, 4 oz morning and evening, two hours before dinner.
Once this has been used up, make up new, with new China, without removing the 'prima fondata'. Then increase to 36-40 oz of water.
Madam's illness seems to be pure indigestion, caused by the glands separating the gastric humours. I would make 8 equal does of the ipecuacuana and sugar. Giving one the first morning, two the second, three the third and so on, until it causes her to vomit. Then I would reduce the doses gradually, making sure she doesn't vomit, and carry on for a long time.


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


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


Name of Recipe:
A plaster for the kidneys from the Casertano


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


Name of Recipe:
Water for constipation and for haemmoraging of blood


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


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

How to take:
Take two in the morning and two in the evening, and drink a little 'scottatura d'assenzio' with it.


Comment:
Tartrato acid of potassium, found in residues from vinification, used in dying and raising agents and as a laxative.( Torresi, p61)


Name of Recipe:
Recipe for making vermouth from Casa Terrosi


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


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


Name of Recipe:
Tincture of Tebiac unaltered from the London pharmacopea


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


How to take:
First prepare the patient with a bagno epatico, then apply the unguent for 8 days.


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


Name of Recipe:
Water of cinnamon spirit (cannella spiritosa)


Name of Recipe:
A disinfecting vase  or bottle (boccella)


Name of Recipe:
Frozen Almond paste (marzipan a diaccio)


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


Aims of Remedy:
Could be to eliminate the smell from the breath ?


Name of Recipe:
Breathlessness; tightness of the chest and wounds

How to take:
Placed on the wound, for the second. Not clear about for reathing difficulties.


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


Name of Recipe:
Apoplexy, Paralisis and similar conditions

How to take:
It must be taken daily. Take an amount the size of a walnut, 'or the quantity which conforms to each person's temperament 'morbresa l'esperienza', enough to move the body (does it mean whole body, or to pass stools?) once or twice a day. Give on the tip of a knife, leave in the mouth until softened and can be swallowed.
Take two or three hours before lunch. "IT isn't necessary to stay at home, or to interrupt studying, or business, "…ne obbliga a qualita di libis" (?), ne occorre cautela alcuna di sonno, o di vigilia' because it is very light. It doesn't disturb, cuase pain etc  as other purges do, 'it goes senza impeto, e violenza, piacevolmente purga." Can also be taken 1 or 2 hours after a light dinner. IT will produce a quiet, long sleep, without disturbing the bowels until morning. Best taken once or twice a month, with a waning moon, when the evil humours are more abundant.

Comment:
This is a summary, with some quotations from the lenghty text. Note the fully humoral nature of the remedy and explanation.


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


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

How to take:
Heat the urine and bathe the penis often in it. Also good for painful arms and shoulders.


How to take:
Place the dampened linen on or under the pubic bone


How to take:
Give the flowers and roots to drink 4 hours before eating every morning for many mornings.


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


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


Comment:
See the other recipes for this. Particularly  no. 1994, from Source Book 7. (Centuria di secreti etc.) Also uses kid's blood:
Recipe 1829 from SB 5, (Difico delle Ricette) uses Hare's blood and the aim is to make it look as if it has worms.


How to take:
Apply any of the mixtures/ingredients to the burns


How to take:
Rub on the hair, or wash in the various remedies.


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


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

How to take:
Take half an hour before eating. Repeat if it doesn't work.


How to take:
Bathe the eyes with a piece of cotton dipped in this. It will burn a little to start with, but this will pass.


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

How to take:
Apply the heated ointment on the cloth to the stomach.


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


Comment:
Another reference to this trick, which was only noted a few pages ago. He must have forgotton!!


Name of Recipe:
A horse with the shoe attached (can't get it off?)


Name of Recipe:
Horses: which have rotto lo pello per lo sbraccale


How to take:
Apply the various remedies to the head//temples


How to take:
Wash the joints with this as hot as possible.
Or, tie the omlette on the joints as hot as possible


Name of Recipe:
Antidote for someone who has eaten poisonous mushrooms


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

How to take:
Eat first remedy.
Second: Take the whole pine (cone?), 'e fanne suffumigio, 'qual ricervi nel sefo' (?) e questo per tre volte.


How to take:
. Give 2 spoonfuls in the morning for three days.


How to take:
Put on the wound. For the second: It will heal in 3 hours. Try it out on an animal first. 

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


How to take:
wash the feet in it tepid.
Rub on the fox fat.


Name of Recipe:
Fever which comes with Arte
How to bring on a fever

How to take:
Put the saffron on the vein used for blood letting and leave for an hour.

Or, Put the garlic clove in the anus.


How to take:
Apply over the ring finger, near the little finger of the left hand three hours before the fever, leave for 4 hours. Then put more unguent, repeat three times.


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


Name of Recipe:
To prevent children from suffering from toothache


How to take:
Drink the water in which the straw has been soaked.


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


How to take:
Or, eat once a a week: an ounce  in the morning, and wash the face and painful area with it.

Comment:
This secret comes from the Queen Elizabeth of Hungary.


Comment:
Nearly the same ingredeitns as a cerecloth, and it uses a piece of leather


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

How to take:
It must be taken daily, a piece the size of a walnut, or a size suitable for the patient's temperament (che conforme al temperamento di ciascheduno), experience will show this will move the bowels once or twice lightly the same day. Take on the tip of a knife, hold in the motuh until the heat softens it and it can be swallowed. Take on empty stomach two or three hours before lunch.
No care need be taken, it can also be taken the same evening in same quantity, one or two hours after a light dinner before sleep and will provide a keep sleep, not affecting the bowels till next morning. 
(If not taken regularly ?)It can be taken once or twice a month, when the moon is waning, when the nasty humours abound.

Comment:
Notice, the humoral basis and importance of astrological elements for this remedy is well explained.


Comment:
Note the use of a remedy based on  sympathetic magic : something for strangling vipers, cures a sore throat.


How to take:
Wash the legs morning and evening below the knee


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

How to take:
Rub the area with a hot cloth 'where the crab usually nips'.
Bathe with acqua vite.


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


Comment:
Various party tricks: How to make writing appear on the hand.
How to make the how appear to be in flames. 
How to make an egg walk across a table
etc. several pages of these.


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


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

How to take:
The true opericon can be recognised because when you rub the flower between your fingers they appear bloody.
The seed drunk with wine works against stones; crushed it is useful for spitting and vomiting of blood. Durnk with hot meat broth  makes you move your bowels. The flowers and seeds are marvellous for consolidating wounds except of the head. 
The flowers soaked in the oil with (silique verdis?), crushed with the seed heals recent wounds wounderfully, working even better when mixed with the tears of abietina or oil or terebintina. 
Rubbed on the body it helps dissenteries and a spoonful drunk kills bachi.* Not only the seed but the whole plant provokes the menses and urine. As a plaster it heals wounds and ulcers and burns. AS a powder it heals putrid and damp ulcers . Can be drunk for sciatica and lowers the fever in tertian and quartain fevers.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent someone from getting drunk

How to take:
Eat the almonds before drinking.

Eat the quince or pomegranate before drinking.

Dunk some bread in water and eat first.

If a man is drunk, bathe his testicles in cold water. For a woman, bathe her breasts, but not if she is pregant.


Comment:
Not sure which part of the cow is used. If it were udder, would be based on sympathies.


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


How to take:
put it on a knife. If it spreads it is good, if not, it is off.


Comment:
Note this draws on galenic understandings of digestive processes:

"There are those who say it is good."


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


Name of Recipe:
Someone who has been bewitched or enchanted (Legato o Ammaliato)

How to take:
Urinate through the neck of the shirt belonging to the person who has entangled you and through the right arm and you will get free.


How to take:
Rub this on the children's lattime and it will heal.


Name of Recipe:
How to dispel lusts ( Discacciare Lussuria)


Comment:
Seems rather odd. The preparation, in water in a vase, will jump about when the moon is full.


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


Name of Recipe:
How to conserve pomegranates all year round


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


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


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

Comment:
The book then says " However, one cannot be entirely sure about this."!!


Comment:
Of one of these remedies he writes 'sperienza vera'. If you want to try, throw that water over the clotted blood of a dead animal and it will go runny.

Of another he writes 'questa e la ricetta dell'olio che danno I Signori Malegennelli e mi vien detto che sia ancora l'istessa di quella de I Signori Pitti.


How to take:
drink a glass for three mornings to reduce the pain.


How to take:
rub on the womb, you will hear a noise and it will then certainly return to its proper place, nor will it suffer again from this.

Comment:
Does this noise  made by the womb suggest it is a 'voluntary' noise emitted by the womb. I.e. is this a view of the womb as a living creature? Also embedded possibly in the way it says 'allora ritornera certamente a suo luogo', as if it had a will.


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


How to take:
Rub/apply the resulting liquids to the 'margini'.


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

How to take:
There are several recipes here. 
Just before the time when the menses normally would start, take yeast dissolved in good tepid wine, for three mornings.

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

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.

Comment:
Note the comment on the importance of distinguishing between stopped menses with pregnancy


Comment:
The shells of acorns and castagne not only help flux of the womb, but all fluxes of the body of whatever kind, even if they are chronic. (antichi)


How to take:
Quello, che si vuol fare il primo a servirsene si puole cavare prima perche basta meno.


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

Comment:
This might be intended also as a remedy for white menses, which preceeds it in the manuscript.


How to take:
Eaten daily this will preserve from every kind of plague, malign fevers, petecchial fever and so on. The juice from the leaves and the root masticated will drive away melancholy and bring on a peaceful and cheerful frmae of mind.


How to take:
sprinkle over the house.
Burn the nail, or the marrow leaves in the house


How to take:
Rub on the hands, or wash the hands in it.


How to take:
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.


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


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

How to take:
Take the stems/canes and shave off the bark with a knife, take the middle part, between the bark and vitichio. Place it over the pulses of the hands, tie it there so it canno fall, leave for a night. In the morning remove and you will find two sacks full of water at the pulses, which you release, puncturing them and the unpleasant fluid will drain away. When he heals, these will dry up.
Note that this remedy is good for 'le scese', but must be applied below the scesa and for gout, on the soles of the feet.

Comment:
This recipe is true and has been experimented


How to take:
When cooked take the liquid and rub once a day for 10 days.


For weak nerves, colic, paralisi and wrinkles.


How to take:
Drink the soup. Eat the rosemary and bread


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


Comment:
This is extremely precious 'da gran signori'


How to take:
When you use it, wash the wound with warm red wine and place a cloth dipped in the oil over the wound. For a while it will seem to frizzare, but it will soon close and heal, since this is a well tried remedy.


How to take:
Bathe the eyes with a little cotton dipped in this. That is the part where the cateract or blurr is. It will burn a little but will will pass quickly to great effect.


Comment:
This is the method used by some tradesmen selling oil.


How to take:
Make sachets of this and leave to infuse in the wine for 24 hours.Drink this wine.
Each sachet can be used three times.


How to take:
Put this medicament in the painful ear and close with a little cotton.


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


Comment:
You will have the most precious oil, more precious than gold, for  external use. They say it turns argento fuso into gold.


Name of Recipe:
How to prevent someone from urinating at all


How to take:
You put it under the arms and leave to dry.


Comment:
The remedy does not make clear why you should do this.


How to take:
Wash with this where needed several times.


Name of Recipe:
Powdered peaches  Marescialla style (alla Marescialla)


Comment:
Notice how for these cosmetic recipes suddenly the quantities, in terms of cost, are closely speficied. Why? Are these taken from someone else, who uses this formula? Was it more important with these expensive ingredients to specifiy quantity?


How to take:
See ingredients /methods form: notice very varied kinds of remedy.

Comment:
Note that remedy 6 here is is very similar to recipe ID 92, 87, 534, (Books 1 and 2 of Alessio piemontese. The same ingredients appear in 802, which is bk 3.


How to take:
Take a little on the palm of the hand with some oil and rub  over the affected area until used up. Use on alternate days. This is a well tried remedy.


Comment:
From here on the recipes have been added/compiled by Gio Batista di Filippo Scarlatti, commencing in 1735. Although this is all the same volume, they are indicated as SB 12, for the ease of comparison.


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


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


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


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

Comment:
Notice the attribution of this secret: "a secret taken from a little old printed book. (Picolo libretto antico stampato)


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


Comment:
Compare to recipe 442,:  Alessio P. Take the eye of a black dog, and hold it in your hand. This is good for burglars who wish to steal by night. (he doesn't add the part about burglars)


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

How to take:
Give to drink to the patient who will heal perfectly


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

How to take:
Give a son some sweet fennel to eat every morning. Then that son will lick the eye of the patient, who will heal immedieately

Comment:
This is kind of sympathetic magic? Or, based on the healing properties of youth?


Name of Recipe:
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


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


Comment:
Interesting how the principal ingredient is acorns for which extra specficiations as to quality are added in smaller handwriting.
They must have four qualities, that is, small, crespa, heavy and yellow.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Comment:
This has a picture of a hand pointing towards it in the magin, and 'buonissima' seems to have been addded underneath the title as an after thought/additional comment


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


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


Name of Recipe:
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

Comment:
AT the end of this long recipe he comments: 'and so you will be able to keep it for making practical jokes. '


Comment:
Just before this secret, he writes ' Various other secrets which were not easy for me (cheap?)  to learn/come by' (vari altri segreti , che mi son costati non poco per impararli e prima…'


How to take:
Use this oil to rub over the fontanella of the stomach and the pulses and the soles of the feet.

Comment:
Compare to recipe ID 1254, which also uses iron, but in oil, involving rubbing.


How to take:
Give to the patient in wine, for two or three mornings


Comment:
"In occasione che tu abbi sospetto di aver conceputo la pena per qualche scarmana, o altro, " drink your own urine. 
 if you suspect you are paying the price for having caught a chill,


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


Comment:
See Recipe Id 441. This is from here-though minus the badger body part


How to take:
Rub this on the teeth several times, using your finger covered with a piece of cloth dipped in water. Then rinse the mouth.

Comment:
You will see the effect as I have also tried this out.


Name of Recipe:
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. This secret learned from a cappuchin monk and tried out, verissimo.

Comment:
Segreto imparato da un Religioso cappuccino e provato verissimo. This secret learned from a cappuchin monk and tried and tested. Note snakes must be from Isola di San Paolo


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


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

How to take:
Use daily, bathing the temples and nostrils, rinsing the mouth and eating a mouthful of bread dipped in the mixture.


Name of Recipe:
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.

How to take:
This oil is applied hot, bathing first the wound with hot red wine and it is excellent for every wound, bruise, whether of men or animals.
(added in smaller hand: and so that when the first oil has been emptied from the pan, leave the residue untouched, gather it and add to what remains. You can dry these dregs in the sun and pulversie and can serve to medicate animals

Comment:
Interestingly, this one recipe, which he declares is the household one, does have several changes, additions in the text, as if after thoughts-he or someone else spotted that a step had been missed out. Most of the others appear to have been copied out, lacking this spontenaity.


Name of Recipe:
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

Comment:
Note this second reference to how much he has paid for a secret


Name of Recipe:
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:


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

How to take:
The patient (il paziente) drinks what remains  in the morning on an empty stomach and will feel great effects. Use this when you realise they have male di petto and feel the pain.


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


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


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


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

Comment:
The reference to Alessio Piemontese is written in a smaller hand in the margin


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe for gold letters as earlier


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


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


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


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

How to take:
Rub over the whichever limbs you wish and you will not feel the cold


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

Comment:
AT this point there is a change in the volume. The writing smaller and neater, although the same style, and the recipes have clearer bigger headings which stand out.
Notice also the reference to the experiments


How to take:
Leave your hands or feet to soak in your own urine, immediately after urinating and you will immediately heal perfectly.

Comment:
The person who taught me this asserted you would never suffer from it again.


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


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

How to take:
Take acors, from an oak, or other trees and split them when dry. If you find a fly inside it means there will be a war, if you ifnd spiders there will be plague and worms mean famine. This is what Mattioli and others write. (Cosi scrive Mattioli , e altri .


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

Aims of Remedy:
The virtues of this are that it heals any old or fresh wounds and smooths the skin of the wound so that there is no scar left. 
If you put two drops of this liquor in the eyes, it will dispel cloudiness and cateracts. Ot comforts and clears the sight. It heals and fortifies weak limgs and pulled nerves.
It comforts the heart, if fubbed on the left side and calms paralisis of the hands and head though not on the old.It sooths any pain of the joints deriving from coldness.
It helps colic pains and is excellent also for women suffering from mal di madre, rubbing on the painful area.


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


Name of Recipe:
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)

How to take:
Somma per l'infrascritte figure il nome della gravida, e del marito, e del mese ingravidata, di poi parti la somma per 7; che se resta in pari e femmina, se in dispari maschio, tanto quello, che avanza, che quello che manca.
There is a key, with letters of the alphabet in capitals and beneath them numbers


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


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

Comment:
Note, here the style reverts to the former style of handwriting and page lay out.

Ricetta particolare per fare una perfetta ceralacca, da me imparata questo di 10 dicembre 1744 da un ebreo che ha operato in mia presenza, accio meglio apprendessi, e si e contentato di un tal segreto gli dessi no:4 Ruspi, e confesso, che mi e caro un tal segreto infinitamente, per aver veduto la facilita con la quale si opera in poco tempo, e la perfezione del lavoro, che ne resulta, che puo dare un lucro considerabile a chi ne vuol far negozio, trattandosi, che puo stare a confronto di quella della Trappa tanto stimata, ed anzi vien giudicata di bonta superiore, come l'esperienza puo far vedere. Sia pero caro ad ognuno che leggera un'tal'segreto in questo libro di non lo propalare, come prego di tutti gl'altri per non rendere comuni tali segreti cosi stimabili come e questo sopra ogn'altro. There are some detailed ink drawings of the tools needed for this secret. Just some comments on this recipe: p 257 he notes 'note that the vermiglione d'olanda is sold in Florence yb the spezziale Coccolini in the market. The gommalacca, luigi Moretti speziale also in the market. The first will charge you 7 lire a pound, the other 4 lire. In Livorno , the Vermiglione .6 at the most, and gommalacca, 3. The long Cannelli are are sold 'alla Trappa' for un paolo each. He also describes the sign made by the Badia, and his own sign.


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

Aims of Remedy:
This shell will dissolve the stones in the bladder, and make it pass in the urine, this is because of the heat of the animal , which makes the eggs, demonstrated in the way in which it can digest iron.
If you increase the strength of this, drink in good vino generoso, o bianco o rosso che sia.

How to take:
Take enough to cover a soldo or giulio. Give in the morning in broth for 3-4 mornings.


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


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


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


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


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


Name of Recipe:
Tempera da Bulini for engraving on Copper


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

Comment:
This page has had the corner folded in. By a user? After the recipe has been given he adds:
"Per quanto attestava il citato Dottore e potentissimo rimedio per chi patisce guaio di bacchi, o vermi, cosi nelle persone piccole, come nelle grandi e adulte."


How to take:
Take it hot and it will work immediately


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

Aims of Remedy:
Doctrine of sympathies used here: red sachet for blood shot eyes.

How to take:
On going to bed, remove the sachet and bath the eye.
Put the sachet back in the infusion between bathing. The more often you do it, the more quickly the eye will heal. If in a hurry, no need to leave it for the 24 hours.


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


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


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


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

Comment:
He has painted a small green square in the margin with the ink.


How to take:
Rub your ear rax on the bruises. This has been tried out


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


Aims of Remedy:
Risolvendo il male, through urinate and sweating.

How to take:
it works amazingly. I have tried it on several occasions.


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

Comment:
(continued from title) Learned by me which I saw done by a Bresciano this year, the 10th of July 1748, however keep it secret (safe), and don't teach it to everyone , as I promised him, so as not to damage his chances of making a sizeable profit from this . At the end he writes (p288):
“I have written the above recipe so fully because having seen it made I have been able to note all the above particulars, but I haven’t done this for the benefit of someone who wishes to learn a trade, nor for myself, because having seen it done I no longer have need to know that which is written above.”


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

Comment:
also learned from the same professor.
He notes this lacquer is good for Tabacchiere nere


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

Comment:
Said to be from a Jew. Rather, it is from the Jew Vigevena. I have tried this successfully.


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

Comment:
Learned by me when I saw it made by the above mentioned Brescian author today, 17th August 1748.

He has some additional comments on its preparation in the margins. As if adding afterthoughts.


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


Comment:
This recipe has a final paragraph which says
"This is the clearest varnish for work in white, but since it is not hard, put the last two coats of Vernice di Coppale."
Then, in the margin in a different ink he writes-presumably at a later date-
"With experience I have seen that this varnish isn't as clear as it is famed to be."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

How to take:
You will find this plant in many places, cut the roots. Give to the patient, to hold so it touches the flesh and as the root dries to the natural colour, the fever vanishes.

Comment:
This remedy has been tried by a priest (un religioso) who claimed it was defficacious. He also told me that the herb can be found all year round.  A botanist told me the plant is called 'cino glossa' e or 'lingua Canis'. The leaves are of the colour and lanugine like our Salvia.
On the illustration he notes that in Mattioli it is called 'Cino Glossa' or 'lingua canis.'


Name of Recipe:
How to make the metal known as Grinciobech


Comment:
We are back with the neater handwriting and clearer headings


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


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


How to take:
Give often to the patient over several days and they will heal. Use several times a week and this will prevent it from forming again and will dissolve what has already formed. This recipe has been confirmed by several people who have used it with success.
The decotion is coloured like wine and the patient's urine will become very dark, which is a good sign, showing that the medication is working. I know of some who will fear seeing their urine, but with God's help and continuing the drink, they will remain healthy.


How to take:
This herb has little seeds in the flower, which are almost black,. Putting one in the eye it moves around the eyeball, and gets covered with the mucous and when it emerges, seems like a fish eye, having cleared the sight.

Comment:
The leaves of the plant are excellent for bruises, because they purge. This remedy was tried by my second brother, who learned it from others. (There is a hand pointing in the margin, as if to emphasise this remedy)


How to take:
Rub on the wounds, an excellent  remedy which has been tested


Name of Recipe:
Acqua Sanpareille (Water with no equals)


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

Comment:
I was taught this by the Cameriere of the Sig. Marchese Frescobaldi.
He refers to it as a 'rosolio' also known as a cordial.


Aims of Remedy:
It is excellent for reviving the spirits, stimulating the natural fire and expelling windiness, when rubbed on well.

Comment:
Notice the very humoral basis of the aims of the remedy


Name of Recipe:
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)

How to take:
Give the patient as much as will cover a gliuio with an egg, mixing the yolk well.
If you don't see any effect the first day, repeat the next and so on.
You can keep this powder in a well sealed glass jar and it will last as long as you like.


How to take:
Put the eyes and tongue of a rosignolo under their pillow.


Aims of Remedy:
A drink for the chest, which helps loosen catarrah and mucus

Comment:
This and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754


How to take:
Use a chicken feather to apply on the burns several times a day, do not force, or use bindings, just apply till the scabs fall off.

Comment:
There is no faster, more suitable remedy for burns than this one. (Non ha l'arte piu pronto e adeguato rimedio per le scottature di …..

This and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754


Aims of Remedy:
Good for chronic fevers, taken evey morning, working on the viscous humours and predisposing them to being purged.


Aims of Remedy:
Removes roughness of the skin, ugly scars, lessens the pain of ulcers of of the ears and helps nervi recisi.(Severed?)


Name of Recipe:
Prepared Vinegar solution (Aceto preparato solutivo)

Aims of Remedy:
This purges the body wihtout damaging it, taken in raw salads or cooked as you like it comforts the appetite and causes no harm


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

Aims of Remedy:
This vinegar was used with complete safety by four thieves during the famous plague of Marseilles, who were able to walk amongst the rotting corpses of the plague dead and gather a huge booty. They bathed their nostrils, pulses and washed the mouth with it three times a day. It is praised by professors of medicine also when taken by mouth. 2 drams, and up to 6 drms, can be taken every morning. It is considered very useful for all epidemics, used in the manner described, not only to heal from such cruel ailments but to protect oneself from them.


Aims of Remedy:
This remedy is singular for those who lack vital and spirits , for those with palpitations and other heart problems.


Aims of Remedy:
The chemists say that this water has incomparable virtues.Taken daily for 40 days, every morning, it will tremove all the ailments of the head; epilepsy, vertigo, paralisis. It protects from apoplexy and heart problems. Purifies the spirits and blood and say it is the most valid for all chronic ailments, especially defects of the liver and Hidrope umida.

Comment:
This and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754:

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.

Note his reference to 'the chemists': and yet, the very few chemical remedies here.


Aims of Remedy:
This is efficacious for cold afflictions of the ventricle, for wind, colics which are also cold. Also for passions of the heaert and hysterical afflictions, especially for those with hot delicate temperaments


Aims of Remedy:
Used for headaches, vertigo, apoplexy, paralisi and spasms. Be careful however not to use it for ailments deriving from the cold or slimy humours


Aims of Remedy:
A singluarly good remedy for simple wounds, or complex ones, prohibits convulsions, digesting and cleaning scars without the help of other remedies, also good for bruises.

Comment:
This and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754.

In the margin here, he xplains 1 dr=3 scrupoli, and 1 scupolo =20 grains.


Aims of Remedy:
Good for weakness of the stomach, promotes digestion, dissolves obstructions in the stomach, helps yellow jaundice. It is similar to the manipulations of the conserve of rose, violets and others.


Aims of Remedy:
Some call this an elixir for apoplexy. The silk spirit is easy to purify. Useful for apoplexy, paralisi, epilepsy and spasms. Also for maligne fevers and pestilential fevers when it is necessary to provke great sweats.


Aims of Remedy:
This is useful used tepid in pleurisy to help the patient to spit up the slippery matter in the lungs


Aims of Remedy:
used for a weak stomach, fluxes of the intestines, annointing the mouth of the upper ventricle.


Aims of Remedy:
Very useful for intestinal pain, when annointed all over the abdomen


Aims of Remedy:
This remedy was discovered in Rome and used successfully by a good surgeon (chirurgo)


Aims of Remedy:
Promotes urine when rubbed over the pubic area


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

Aims of Remedy:
Singularly useful for simple and complex wounds, without necessitating other balsams to start or finish the cure


Aims of Remedy:
A very useful and easy remedy to use in apoplectic fits, taken in one oz of ossimele squillitico. It purges valourously, dealing a strong blow at stomach fevers and sluggish intestines. Also useful for cold 'sciati'


Aims of Remedy:
Useful for apoplexy, epilepsy, tremors, spasims, dizzyness and other ailments of the brain, for hysterical afflictions and melancholic ones.


Aims of Remedy:
Good for sincope, appoplexy, malign fevers, chicken pox and plague. It moves the sweat violently. And the urine.


Aims of Remedy:
Promotes urine, it refreshes burning of the intestines in fevers and in the summer it can be taken to give a bitter taste to drinking water. Chemists celebrate it for its powers against fevers and chest problems.


Aims of Remedy:
This simple unguent is admirable for tumors in women's breasts, applied spread over thin pieces of line, or on leaves of fresh lettuce, dissolving the accumulated material, or maturing it if fermentation has already started. It is without pain and 'con insensibile incomodo.' With this remedy alone one can mature, digest and 'incarnare' every tumor in those glands, without needing to touch.

Comment:
This and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754

Note the reference to women's sensibility-and not needing to touch them:


Aims of Remedy:
This is specficially for painful and dry Haemorrhoids.

Comment:
his and following recipes, to page 346, are secrets and recipes taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754


Aims of Remedy:
Digests suppurated tumors and cleans putrid sores and wounds


Aims of Remedy:
This balsam is to be esteemed in external ailments and used by expert hands. It works wonders with wounds and putrid sores, cleaning them and  healing them with no other remedy. It dissolves cold tumors, calms pain and is useful for many other ailments, which a discreet Cerusico (surgeon) should know. Be careful not to use on neres or membranes.

How to take:
Use this Balsamo roseggiante as you wish.


Aims of Remedy:
Very useful for eye conditions, burning and weeping eyes and recent cataracts.


Comment:
This secrets is taken from the Lessico Farmaceutico Chimico di GioBatista Cappello speziale in Venezia, Stampato in detta Citta fino del 1754


Name of Recipe:
How to extract any dye, or colour from any flower. This recipe is from Abrezzo, sent to me by the Sig. Conte Ubertini


Name of Recipe:
Another recipe on How to extract any dye, or colour from any flower.


Name of Recipe:
Paint/Varnish with Gomma Coppale Learned from an engraver, who is the best, and happily tried out by me, as did the above, who learnt it in Vienna


Comment:
Doctrine of Sympathies? See also earlier; as this gets rubbed away so does the fever, but not magic, per se.


Name of Recipe:
For abscess, Tuberculosis and tumors in general, Excellent remedy Taken from James


Name of Recipe:
How to clean gilded picture frames, or other such work so they look new


Name of Recipe:
The Virtues of the Salt form Tanaglia, a place near Rome, prepared by a family of peasants who make a good profit. (che is manipola da una familgia di contadini quali ne traggono un buon profitto)

Aims of Remedy:
This salt enjoys a universal reputation against all poisons, particularly that of rabid dogs and at pains which men but also horses and other animals suffer from.

How to take:
Horses take as much as covers a testone, dissolved in water, men take less, depending on how robust they are and their build, dissolved in wine or a weak  soup, or water.


Name of Recipe:
The Balsamo Innocenziano, which was invented in 1684, but told to me in 1762 (che ne fu data la Ricetta nel 1684 , ed a me comunicata nel 1762)


Name of Recipe:
Pastels for painting and how to prepare them


Name of Recipe:
The amazing nail for removing tooth pain


Name of Recipe:
Alabaster powder for casting medals, which is always good


Aims of Remedy:
Very good for preserving one from bad air


Name of Recipe:
An excellent Ink for special work, because it will not yellow


Name of Recipe:
Clear Varnish, as clear as well water, for painting


Name of Recipe:
An addition to the secret for making Ceralacca, here on page 252 for another recipe learned from a Venetian Jew, who made it in my presence, at the price of 3 Ruspi, today the 21st of January 1765

Comment:
The first recipe is dated 1744. This recipe is dated 1765, so 21 years later.


Name of Recipe:
A Recipe by the same Frenchman for transporting figures or arabseques on gilded paper from Germany, on wood, marble or glass, which can then be varnished


Name of Recipe:
A Glue particularly for repairing porcelain and other earthenware


Name of Recipe:
Leaves and natural flowers to be drawn on paper or canvas


Name of Recipe:
A singular mordent for sticking gold on iron, stone or anything else


Name of Recipe:
Recipes from Doctor Antonio Rossi which have been expermiented and given to me as a great favour. For any fevers, malignant and pestiferous


Name of Recipe:
Recipes from Doctor Antonio Rossi which have been expermiented and given to me as a great favour. For wounds

How to take:
Dry the wound well, put the powdered coal over the wound.


Name of Recipe:
Recipes from Doctor Antonio Rossi which have been expermiented and given to me as a great favour. For Scrofulous glands (gavine) and Spine Ventose

How to take:
Serba alle congiunture.
Il chirurgo scalzi bene le gavine o spineventose, fino che gettino sangue d'ogn'intorno e allora vi ponga sopra la sudetta povere, continue until healed.


How to take:
When you want to use, heat the infusion, bathe pieces of cloth in and place over the area. It will heal provided the illness isn't more than a year old after which it is difficult to heal.


Name of Recipe:
How to clean brass so it looks like gold


Name of Recipe:
A recipe for healing rheumatism learned from a traveller in Turkey

How to take:
Before taking it in the morning remove the foam with a spoon, drink a cupful on empty stomach. 
Take for 20-30 days, mixing it every evening. With God's help you will see an effect.


Name of Recipe:
How to remove greasy stains, carriage greace and other marks from any material, wool or velvet, without altering the colour. A tested recipe


Name of Recipe:
Gum water for miniatures, which won't stain the colour


Name of Recipe:
Boerhaven's recipe for indigestion, and flatulence to be used before meals

Comment:
Herman Boerhaave 1668-1738 'Opera Omnia medica, Venetiis, apud L.Basilium, 1742.Had a great reputaion as a clinician. Creator of the modern method of clinical teaching. Had an enormous influence during his lifetime. Greatest Wrok was Elementa chemiae, published in 2 vols Leiden 1732. (From Morton's Medical Bibliography, fifth edition. Edited Jeremy M.Norman, Scolar Press, Gower publishing Company, Aldershot, 1991)


Name of Recipe:
Varnish to be used on top of silver to harden it, so it won't tarnish, by Sig. Marchese Albergotti 1768.

Comment:
Notice that he is not putting many recipes in per year. This is the 40th, aprox, in 3 years.


Name of Recipe:
Remedy for a sore throat, tried and tested.

How to take:
Put the material in a fine handkerchief and wrap around the neck. GO to sleep and in the morning, the pain will have gone, leaving only small boils which will vanish on their own

Comment:
I suppose the pain caused by a crab is similar as that of the sore throat, or something, making it a remedy based on sympathies.


Name of Recipe:
Another remedy for sore throat and to prevent it happening. Recipe from an English doctor.

How to take:
and then put around your neck wearing it all the time. It will work for two yearsat least, then renew it.

Comment:
I have seen this thread worn by a German Cavalliere, called Levenfeld, who told me the secret, and who had never again suffered from the ailment. 

Note the basis of this remedy!! And the transmission of the secret!


Name of Recipe:
A Recipe for Carmine from Sig. Filippo Burci Painter


Name of Recipe:
A Mordent for Gold and  silver on paper, silk or other


Name of Recipe:
Colours for miniatures on paper, or wool, in the form of little loaves, like the China Ink they use in France and an assorment of such colours which costs no less than 5 Zecchini. But it is held to be costly.


Name of Recipe:
A fish glue, perfect for many uses, known by few, which I was graciously given by a young Speziale in 1771


Comment:
I was taught this by someone who had tried it several times successfully. The person who taught it to me asserted to have found it so useful that he never suffers from them anymore, even though he is more than 60 years old.


Name of Recipe:
Recipe for making Clear Talco and coloured Talco


How to take:
put a bucket of water under the bed. The bedbugs will go to that side and will leave you in peace.

Comment:
The person who taught this to me has tried it out.


Name of Recipe:
A warning about Minio red colour, called by the French Massicot jaune, made from Biacca or Cerusa.


Name of Recipe:
For chest pain , a remedy which has been successfully experimented

How to take:
Give to the patient immediately who with divine help will heal.


Name of Recipe:
A remedy for those who urinate in bed, "come non viene da debolezza intrinsica della macchina"( which doesn't derive from intrinsic weakness of the machine apparatus)

Comment:
Note the use of language in the name of remedy and idea of body as machine


Name of Recipe:
For varnishing felt hats, as is the fashion these days (come si costuma in oggi)


Name of Recipe:
Recipe for Chest pain by an excellent doctor, printed in his pamphlets

How to take:
Give one a day to the patient in a fresh egg, or in a spoonful of pappa, up to three a day, no more, which will promote sweating. An excellent remedy


Name of Recipe:
How to burn "la calia d'oro, o argento, in a new and beautiful way, so as to make it a thing of great repute


Comment:
Insegnatomi da un credenziero di Corte nel mese di novembre 1773 che me ne fece un buon vasetto.


Name of Recipe:
How to reduce big models for mounting in stone or crystal


# Table 3 Ingredients/ Methods

Ingredients:
1  1/2 drm of ottima ambra, pietra di porfido, oglio di gelsomini, o cetrangoli.

Method:
Grind the musk on the stone with the oils. Then add the rose damaschine, bengioi 1 oz each, irios 1 1/2 drms;, pulverise everything, pass through a cloth, and grind with a dram of zibetto until it becomes like a salve. Keep in a horn, or  glass jar.


Ingredients:
Storace calamita, Bengioi, Legno Aloe, 1 oz each;, carboni di salice puverised, 5oz, some acqua vite,

Method:
Mix the ingredients with enough acqua vite to make a paste and make into little loaves  or whatever form you prefer.


Ingredients:
Grasso di cervo o vacca o vitello giovane, o capretto; 1 lb.;

Method:
Mix the fat into a glazed earthenware vase strain the fat carefully and throw away 'suso tanta lessia,' that is 'maestra di sapone,' which is the first because it makes three. Keep the fat warm in the sun and mix. Protect it from rain and water. When it is  nearly dry put as much lessia, that is maestra from the second, and third mixed up 'et dagline il bisogno, et guando vuoi veder se e fatto, pigliane and stropiccia su la mano, and if it is soapy, it is ready. ( **it is not clear what 'the second and third' are).


Ingredients:
Four measures of bean stalks: one of calcina viva; one measure of Seno squagliato

Method:
Take four measures of bean stalks, one of calcina viva, put in a strainer and mix well and crush. When you can, make a well in the middle and fill with water so it starts to drip below, 'perche rasciughera piu volte, inanti che distili.' Then take four measures of this and the seno, clean, strain and put in a cauldron and heat. Let it boil until reduced by a sixth or a little more, then put in 'una madiella* in the sun and stir well for a day until it has absorbed all the lye ('finche habbia bevuto tutto il ranno ), and has hardened.


Ingredients:
Legno aloe, quarto uno; bengioi 1 oz; storace calamita, 1/2 oz; musco, scropulo uno; ambracane, scrupulo 1/2; acqua rosa, sufficient;

Method:
Pulverise everything and put it in a lantern.


Ingredients:
One glass of acqua rosa; a quattrino of garfoli finely crushed;

Method:
Chop the cloves heat up an iron dish until burning hot, ('poi togli la paletta, e falla rovente'), and put the acqua rosa on it with the clove powder and it will make a scented perfume.


Ingredients:
Timiame, 1 lb; storace liquida, 2 oz;, storace calamita, 3 oz;, laudano 1 oz;, carbone di salice and draganti, as much as you like;, 'distempera' with acqua rosa.

Method:
Leave the carbone and draganti powder to soften for three days in the rose water. Make a paste. (As for other ingredients, not clear).


Recipe Name:
A lovely way to dress gloves which costs little and lasts a long time.

Ingredients:
1) Acqua rosa, two parts; fiori di mortella, 1 parts, acqua lansa, 2 parts; Sevetto, ,quanto vi pare; oglio di gelsomino;
2) Musco et ambra, as you like; oglio di gelsomino, o bengioi. Acqua profumata.
Powder of Cipro. Zibetto. Dry rose petals.

Method:
Take large gloves and give them a little civet on the seams, then wash with rose water two or three times, squeezing well. Take ingredients at 1, mix and wash them many times in this, until the smell of corame (leather) has gone. Put them in a plate and leave covered with the water, sprinkled with powder of Cipro for one or two days. Remove and squeeze a little. Hang to dry in the shade. When half dry apply the civet in the following way. Put a little bowl of civet with a little of the oil and heat; then smear on the gloves within, rubbing them between the hands, warming them before the fire, until it has penetrated. Leave, then take a cloth and rub well, so the civet penetrates further, and they become soft, then flatten them, straighten them, leave them for a day. They will seem humid, wider, bigger and leave until half dry.  Then take good perfume for burning and place over that smoke, open, so it penetrates where the hand goes, do three times a day for 20 days, moistening them with a little perfume water and wrapping in a white hankerchief. Then take the ingredients at 2) and mix, dissolve over heat take a brush and brush the mixture over the outsides . Smear  zibetto on the seams, put amongst dry rose petals for a few days, then leave for three or 4 days between two mattresses. 'Saranno da imperatori'. (good enough for an emperor.'


Recipe Name:
A lovely sevetto for perfuming gloves or for annointing the hands

Ingredients:
1) Vino bianco, 3 lbs;, seno di becco o castrato, o capretto, 1 lb;
2) acqua rosa 1 lb; vino bianco, 2 lbs;,
3) rape dolci
4) Oglio di gelsomini, or di cetri,  o di lino,
5) 3 oz of biacca polverizata for every lb. of sevo.

Method:
Boil ingredients at 1) over slow heat in a covered pignatta, leave to cool, put on a plate with clean water (acqua chiara) and wash 5/6 times, leave in water for a day.
Boil the fat in the waters over a brazier, don't allow it to catch, until reduced by half;
take the sweet rape, and cook under the ashes, until well done not burnt, and take 1/2lb of the white centres for every 1 lb of the fat then boil in acqua rosa for 1/2 hour; pass through a sieve, put in a mortar with the oil, or  in the bottom of a glass with rose water in, and make the form of the sevetto in here, adding the biacca.


Ingredients:
Cleaned and crushed seme di Mellon. Fiori. Acqua rose

Method:
Put layer upon layer of the crushed seeds over layers of the flowers or roses, for 8 dyas. Take a small bag,  dampen in acqua rosa and put the seeds in it, tie the bag and use a press to extract the precious oil.


Ingredients:
Amandole cleaned with a knife and cut. Soaked in acqua rosa. Garofoli ammaccati.

Comments:
In the same way make oglio di musco, ambra, gengioi, storace calamita, aloe, cannella, mamcis, et noci muscate. You can mix them too, "e porvi dell' acqua vite.' *

Method:
Take the cloves and soak in acqua rosa, leaving until it smells of the cloves (finche pigli la virtue) . Cover the jar well, and put the almonds to soak, remove and leave to dry in the sun. Repeat this  5,6 times. Put under a press and extract the oil. Keep in a clean well sealed vase.


Recipe Name:
Perfect perfume, worthy of every prince , for rooms, clothes, coltri and bed sheets and other things.

Ingredients:
1) Scorze di cedro secche all'ombra; or take limoni, o naranci;, or if ;you don't have these take frondi di rose verdi, o secche, according to the season. Cut in pieces, do not pulverise.
Zibetto. (You can make this more noble by adding musco and ambra) 
2) A cheaper version: (con minor spesa): acqua rosa, acqua di naranci, olio di gelsomini, garogali, o similar, as much as you like, use this to stemperare storace calamita and a little legno aloe if you have it, and add zibetto.

Comments:
This lasts twice as long as just putting the 'odori' on the brazier without the rinds, which also improve the mixture.
Notice there is a cheaper version.

Method:
Take the pieces, smear all over with zibetto , then put over coals in the middle or corner of the room in a brazier.
The cheaper version you mix and make a liquor thick like a sauce, smear over the rinds and place on the brazier.


Ingredients:
Sapon di purgo, or soft soap. Vine Ashes;
Alume di rocca bruciata, tasso di botte, pulverised.

Method:
Mix the soap with the sieved vine ashes. Chop, then add to these powders the alume and tasso di botte. Mix well and make balls, which can be used on the stains.


Ingredients:
1) 1 1/2 black pulverised earth. 4 oz draganti; acqua rosa;
2) 1 oz. Storace calamita; 1/2 oz garofali; 1/2 oldano,** 1/2 oz cinamomo, 1/2 sandali citrini.

Method:
Mix the draganti and earth and soak in acqua rosa which covers the earth and crush well for 1/2 and hour, with three oz. Of the scents at (2). Make out of the mortar, stir for 1/2 hour and make your paternosters.


Recipe Name:
Useful secret for removing stains from cloth, fine or not.

Ingredients:
Sal da mangiare, chopped well; sapon negro; lessia dolce;

Method:
Mix the soap and salt, smear over the stain, leave to dry then wash with lessia  and  tepid water.


Ingredients:
Sapone. (for 100 lbs., 1 oz of canfora; Oglio. Lessia dolce; Erbe profumate (maggiorano, basilico, garofanaria, rose)

Implements:
Caldara netta; trepiedi'; cocchiara di legno, o 'ferro busciata.

Method:
Take a big cauldron, big enough for the quantity of soap you wish to dress, and put it over the trivet over a gentle heat of well-lit coals so they make no smoke. Put the chopped or grated soap in the cauldron, and stir with wood, over heat like that of the sun, and the soap will start smoking unpleasantly, which you want. Then increase the heat until the soap melts. Then throw in well water, or drinking water, a fair amount, and leave to boil. Leave to cool, and the soap will have come to the surface, and you scoop it up with a wooden spoon, or one of Iron (perforated=  'ferro busciata,)' and make it into the shape you desire, that is squares, or round, or whatever. If you want it to have a scent, boil up herbs, like maggiorano, basilico, garofanaria, rose. If you do this, you must boil the herbs in a separate vessel, then strain and then add, otherwise they would become mixed up with the soap. Once the water has been strained off, for every 100 lbs. of soap, put 1 oz of canfora, ground in a mortar with an oil. Rinse the mortar with lessia dolce, and throw over the water, which will give a sweet scent to the soap. If wished, put acqua rosa, fiori di naranci, etc. but put very little, so the scent cannot be distinguisehd. These soaps  (damaschine) are in this way, 'come il pane nel gusto del mangiare, che non e d'alcuno notabile, e conosciuto sapore.'


Recipe Name:
For removing stains from cloth of gold , silk, wool, linen, ciambellotto and other such things

Ingredients:
Piedi d'avanti d'un castrato.' (Sel di bove will also work, but it  (the cloth?) needs washing in hot water.)

Method:
Take the foot, burn it well and keep the powder. Then you need to use it, place the cloth over a table, dampen the stain with acqua chiara, put the powder on it finely and leave to dry in the sun. then dampen again, dry again several times, wash it in acqua chiara and rub away the powder. The cloth will be clean.


Recipe Name:
For making candies or comfites from lemons, oranges or of every other fruit in honey.

Ingredients:
Cedri, cetrangoli, etc. Mele chiarificato e preparato. Zucchero.

Comments:
Every other fruit can be conserved like this, that is persiche mature con 'anima dentro, et con le scorze, et limmoni, et naranci, pomi, noci in erba, spicoli di noci, lattughe ben nette dalla scorza, etc.

Method:
Cut the cedri in pieces, clean and remove the soft part, put to boil in fresh water for 1/2 hour, until tender. Remove and throw them in cool water, leaving them until the evening. Then return to the heat in fresh clean water, heat over a low heat, without boiling, just hot, and do for 8 days continuously, heating them in the water in the morning, the evening putting them in fresh water. Some only heat the water once a day, and change the water so the bitterness disappears. Once the bitter taste has gone, take sugar, or clarified  honey and once the rinds are dry, throw them and the fresh honey. Be careful not to let it  freeze in winter. Leave for a whole night, and then for a day and night in the honey.  Then boil the honey or sugar, on its own, without the rinds, for 1/2 hr. Once cooled, put back with the rinds. Do on two mornings, until the honey has reduced. If honey only is used, it can be clarified twice and strained through muslin,  'secondo si costuma a l'arte' and poured over the rinds, and boiled slowly for 1/4 hour. Remove, leave to rest for a day and night. The next day boil together for 1/2 hour, for two mornings, until the honey or sugar is perfect. The skill lies in heating this syrup together with the rinds, and the syrup alone, and not allowing it to boil, because it easily absorbs the burnt smell .


Recipe Name:
Purifying and preparing the honey or sugar for conserving lemons and other fruits

Ingredients:
For every 10lbs of Mele:: 12 chiari d'uova. 
For every 6 lbs. Of cedri, 12 lbs. Of mele.

Comments:
Gli serberai tutto l'anno, et questo si sa, perche il mele fa assai piu schiuma del zucchero.

Method:
Levagli la schiuma' (Remove or beat up? ) the froth from the whites, by beating them well with a wooden spoon in 6 glasses of water. Put with the honey, boil over a temperate heat, in a cazza, for 1/4 hour, remove and removing the foam, pass through a muslin. The sugar is prepared in the same way, but, for 6 lbs. Of cedro, put only 9 lbs. Of sugar.


Method:
Clean them and cut them into pieces, spread in the sun on a table, turning them twice a day, morning and evening, for two days. Hot like this,  they will dry. Then dip them in a sugar julep, bene stretto, ("Well sodden" ATS) as  described above, remove and place in the sun, turning often, until they are dry. Then replace in the giulebbe, the sun, until a crust is produced, three or four times and keep in a box for winter.


Recipe Name:
Quince conserve -Valencian and Genoese style and they are made in hard pizze or focaccias.

Ingredients:
For 8lbs. Of Pomi cotogni. Use 3 lbs. Of sugar. 
Spices: Cannella, garofoli, noci muscate zenzero, musco. Aceto.

Comments:
Can do the same for persiche, peri,and other fruits.

Implements:
Cazza stagnata, con fondo largo.
Un cerchio di scatola,

Method:
Take pomi cotogni.Clean, remove the pips, boil in fresh water until they open. Pass through a clean sieve. Mix the quinces with the sugar in the cazza, boil slowly, turning with a wooden spoon until cooked. You know this by how it comes away from the cazza. Remove from heat. You can add musk, crushed with sugar and boiled in a little vinegar. Or other spices. Sprinkle some sugar on a table, spread this cotognata on the table, and with un cerchio di scatola, make little loaves, rolls, or pizzas  put to dry in the sun, rolling them all over in  fine sugar, until they have a lovely white crust.


Recipe Name:
Aubergine conserve-Genoan style with sugar che son frutti chiamati in Lombardia pomi disdegnosi.

Ingredients:
Take these fruits, not to ripe, big as walnuts and boil whole in fresh water, until they are soft to touch. Prepare purified sugar and strain them and when dry put them in the giulebbe, o zucchero, leaving them for 20 days. Then remove, stringerete piu il zucchero, (*) secondo l'arte, come di sopra. Put them back in, leaving them for four days, until the water is removed. Keep in albarelli.


Recipe Name:
To make a sugar paste, which can be made into the form of every kind of fruit, or gentilezza,

Ingredients:
Gomma draganti. Acqua rosa. A bean of this for every 4 oz. of sugar; As much suco di limone as fills a walnut shell; a little chiara d'ovo,

Comments:
…et per servire una tavola, che nel fine si potra dar di denti dentro ne i piatti, e altri vasi simili, e mangiarli, cosa che fara di grande spasso a i convitati.
E con la detta pasta anderete stampando quello che vi piace. These can be served, though don't put hot things in them, and after a meal they can be eaten, 'et fraccassar piatti,k bicchieri, tazze, et ogni cosa, perche questa pasta e dilicatissima, et soave al gusto. (Not sure how you serve this**)

Method:
Put the gomma draganti to soak in acqua rosa, until soft. Crush the draganti in the mortar of white marble or bronze, until watery. Add the juice and egg white, mixing well.  Take the sugar, white and fine, and adding bit by bit, stir until it sticks together like a paste. Remove from the mortar and roll in the sugar powder, like flour, until it is a soft dough which can be modelled.  Roll into thin leaves with the rolling pin.
To make them even finer, put a filling of crushed almonds, sugar and rosewater, making 'marzapani,' et mettete tal pieno fra due paste di tal vaso, o frutto, o altra cosa, che vi piace.


Recipe Name:
Sweet compote of melons and pepones (kind of melon, gourd or pumpkin)

Ingredients:
Melloni, o peponi dolci. Not quite mature, Aceto.
(2) Polvere di garofoli, di zenzevero, di noci muscate, cinamomo.

Method:
Cut many slices as there are marks on the flesh, remove the skin with a knife, and throw away the skin. Leave to soak in good vinegar  for 10 days, remove and put for 10 days in fresh vinegar. Mix daily, then remove and put in a rough tablecloth. Dry them and leave to air for a day. Then boil in honey, once daily for 10 days. Then remove the slices, put in a jar, and take the spices at (2). Place a layer of melon, a layer of spices and then take good white honey, put over the vase and it is done.


Ingredients:
Zucchero fino. Sementa del mellone. Acqua rosa. 
Flavrouings: Musco, cannella.

Method:
Take the sugar and dissolve in water. Once the sugar has dissolved take the melon seeds and remove them.  ('sfendila un poco dalla banda dove nasce, ') and put in the sugared water, adding some rosewater. Leave the seeds for 3-4 hours, then remove  and once they are dry they will close and sow them. The melons which grow will be good enough for a a great gentleman. Then, if you want to give it the flavour of musk, add musk and cannella. You can also do this with watermelon seeds. (Semente di cocomeri.)


Recipe Name:
Orange-peel comfits: which can be done all year round but best in May, when they are big and the peels thick

Ingredients:
Naranci grandi. Mel. Zenzevero, garofoli, cannella.

Method:
Take the peels of big oranges and cut in four or 6 parts, leave to soak for 10 days in water. You know when they are ready because the peel is translucent when you hold it up to the light. Then dry on a table and place between dry cloths. Put in a cauldron or pignatta, put sufficient honey to cover half of the peels and boil a little, stirring continuously. Then remove from the heat, and leave for four days to rest, stirring the peels daily so they all absorb the mixture. Do this three times, removing from the heat and leaving for three days. Then strain the peel from the honey and boil in boil in new honey, for a credo, then remove and put in a vase, adding the best spices you have: (as above) Note that the remaining honey can be used to candy other peels.


Method:
Make holes in the shells, and leave to soak for 11 days or so then boil in honey as you did with the oranges, but for four times as long. You will need to add more honey, because it gets used. Then dress as with the oranges with good spices, but use few cloves because they are bitter.


Comments:
So this is about preparing the vegetable before it is conserved.

Method:
Take the zucca, the neck, and cut it lenghthwise in slices and par boil in boiling water. This is how.. Boil the water and throw it over the zucche, do this 9 mornings, (take care to clean the skins carefully first) being careful to clean the skins well, and remove the softness within. Then cook them in a cauldron, 'quanto che basti onestamente', not overcooked, so they are firm, then put them to dry on a table for two days and using a cloth dry it piece by piece, then do as you did with the oranges.


Comments:
note too how once the method has been explained, the recipes get shorter and shorter.

Method:
Boil the pears in the honey once, and prepare them with spices in the honey.


Comments:
All these conserves can last many years, but bisogna 'crescere il mele,' and let them boil a little.

Method:
Leave the cherries  in the sun for a day, then remove the stone one by one, return to the sun for three days, then cook, as with the oranges, but leave for 15 days in the honey, and three days over a flame, so they heat up and do not go mouldy. Then wipe them well (struccale bene) and put in the honey with the spices.


Ingredients:
3 lbs. Fine sugar; 6 lb. Fior di farina; 3 oz Cannella; 1/2 of noci muscate, of  Zenzevere and of pepe, but  more pepper than the other three last spices.  3 oz Mele bianco crudo senza spumarlo. 1lb Acqua rosa muscata.

Method:
Make a circle of flour, put the sugar in the middle and pour the acqua rosa on this, knead with the hands. Then add the spices, the apple and knead. Cut the mostacciuoli  weighing them at about 3 oz each, make them into fish shapes and work them with a comb. Heat the oven. Place on a floury bed and cook in an open oven. Remove and gild.


Recipe Name:
Scented and precious water for the face, with which hankerchieves can be made to dry the face, which make the skin white, and coloured, and the more you rub, the more beautiful it becomes, and they last for 6 months.

Ingredients:
Allume di rocca lavatato e bruciato, 1 lb; malvagia garba, 2 caraffes; pasta di borace, 6 oz, draganti bianchi, 1 lb; gomma arabica, 3 oz,:
2) Two jugs of goat's milk.  9 oz solimato. 2 lbs. Biacca Aessandrina spiombata.( Chiara d'ovo. Lessia dolce.)
3) Mele crudo, bianco 2 lbs;  Termentina alessandrina lavata, 3 lbs;  aceto stilato, 3 glasses;  zenzevere fresco, finely crushed, 6 oz;
4) Mirra eletta sottile 3 oz', litargirio argenteo sottile, 3 oz;, buona vernaccia.
5) 50 lumache senza guscia purifiacate, canfora, 1 oz., una gallina grassa pelata; 2 naranci nette da la scorza , anime, e pellicola, 12 lioni mondi similmente, o il suco, 'liquai fa mangiare lumachette, e sia come una pasta, 24 ove fresche, boiled hard. 6 oz cannella, zuccaro candio.

Comments:
Comparison: This is the recipe found at the start of book 4 from the ?????edition.
Water to make skin white and remove sunburn: 1/2 caraffe of rain water and fill the rest with citrus juice: Boil the waters till reduced by half, whilst boiling add lemon juice. Remove from heat and when cool add four beaten egg whites.

Method:
Put the ingredients to soak in the wine for 'due di naturalli', well sealed so it cannot breathe, mixing in the goat's milk. Take the sublimate and put it to calcify in an  earthenware pot  which has not been fired,  well sealed in the furnace. Remove the lead from the Biacca by putting in a cloth with egg whites, cooking in lessia dolce till reduced by a third. Then mix everything together. 
Next take ingredients at 3). Put into the winegar and boil till two glassfuls remain. Then take ingredients at 4) and boil  until reduced by 1/3rd then 'stir with a reed, or cane, everything together in a basin for 6 hours. Next throw in the snails, take the canfora and chop the chicken into pieces and make a paste. Take the whites of the boiled eggs and incorporate the cannella and sugar. Mix everything 'in orinale nel bagno' and the first water will be white, the second also, the third very white. Mix the third with the first di nuovo le rettifica, (grind again?) and use. But the middle water is the best for the face. 
If you wish to make hankerchiefs, take some  which are not too fine and put in a plate, and throw the water over them, leaving for 6 hours. Hang them so the water runs off onto the same plate, and leave to  dry. Then soak them again, dry again, and repeat 7 times.


Recipe Name:
Waters which gives colour to a pale skin.

Ingredients:
1) White piccioni: falli imbeccare pignuoli per 15 giorni. 
2) Mezo pane di alume zuccherino, 300 fogli di argento fino battuto, 500 fogli d-oro, 4 molliche di pan buffetto bianco, soaked in latte di mandorle; 1 lb of medolla di vitello o bove, o songia fresca di porco.

Comments:
so, the theme is to have white ingredients, even here, which is to give colour to skin.!

Method:
Remove the pigeon's head, feet, intestines and leave to distill  with the ingredients at 2). Distill everything over a low heat.


Recipe Name:
Excellent water to make you look 20 or 25 years old

Ingredients:
Take 2 piedi di vitello, 18 lbs. Acqua corrente', 1 lb. Riso; una  mollena di pane buffetto left to soak in latte;, 2 lbs. Butiro fresco; 10 chiare d'ove. Con scorza. Allume zuccharino

Method:
Put everything to distil and add a little canfora and allume zuccharino to the resulting water.


Recipe Name:
Water to beautify the face and elsewhere

Ingredients:
Borace bianco, 2 oz;, allume di rocca, 1 oz;, canfora, 2 drms; allume di piuma, 1 oz, allume scagliola, 1 oz,
2) 2 chiare d'ovo, un poco d' agresto,

Method:
Make a powder of ingredients at 1) and put in a big carafe, fill with water (di fonte) and close well with a piece of linen. Put over the fire for two hours, remove, cool, put in another carafe. Then take the egg whites, fresh that day, beat with a little citrus juice  and put in the carafe and leave in the sun for 20 days.


Recipe Name:
Water to make the skin white and remove sun burn.

Ingredients:
1/2 caraffe of acqua pioviana; suco d'agresta;, 4 chiare d'ovi freschi.

Comments:
Note the distinctions in water: here , rainwater. Previous recipe, acqua da fonte. Next recipe, acqua da pozzo.

Method:
Take the 1/2 carafe of water and fill with citrus juice and boil till reduced by half; while it boils, fill it with lemon juice. Then remove from the heat, wait until cool and put the egg whites in and beat. Use as needed.


Recipe Name:
Another water to make you as beautiful as a 15 year old.

Ingredients:
Solfo vivo, 1 oz;, Incenso bianco eletto, 2 oz; Mirra 2 oz; Ambra fina, 6 drms;  1 lb. Acqua rosa. Acqua di pozzo.

Method:
Make a powder of the ingredients, mix with the rose water. Leave to distil and keep the water in a well-sealed vase.


Ingredients:
8 chiare d'ove. Allume scagliola, borace, canfora, allume zuccherina, all 1 oz;, aceto 8 oz;, acqua di fior di fava, 2 oz;,

Method:
Beat the egg whites until they are like water. Then strain and add the powdered ingredients. Put in a glass carafe, leave covered in the sun for 15 days and turn once or twice a day. Then put in another carafe.


Recipe Name:
To make a shiny foundation (belletto) for great ladies.

Ingredients:
Un limone grande. Zucchero candio. 4-6 foglie d'oro.

Comments:
Note that this and previous recipe talk about 'rubbing' the skin, but there is something on the cloth!!

Method:
Take the lemon and cut it in the top, remove a little of the soft parts, as big as a walnut, and fill with zucchero candio, with 4-6 foglie d'oro and replace the top and sew back on with a needle. Then put it in the embers, standing up, and as it boils turn it often, so it sweats. Then remove.


Ingredients:
Farina di lupini, fele (sele) di capra fresco, suco di limoni, allume zuccerino.

Method:
Mix the ingredients into a salve, rub over the wrinkles in the evening and they will disappear.


Recipe Name:
To prepare vine water, otherwise known as tears of the vine. (lagrime delle vite.)

Ingredients:
Fior di vetro, 1 oz; allume zuccherina, 2 oz;, allume di rocca, 1 oz;  borace, 2 oz, canfora; 1 oz;, acqua di vigna.

Method:
Mix everything and leave in the sun for one month.


Ingredients:
1) Pigne verdi picciole
2) Polvere di vetro, 4 oz, pezzi di coralli rossi, 2 oz;, zucchero candio, 4 oz; allume di rocca, 1 oz;, argento vivo,  1 1/2 oz; mortificato con saliva. 12 ove fresche rotte col guscio bene sbattute insieme; 4 oz term1entina lavata a nove acque; porcelette bianche marine, lequali vendono i profumieri, 2 oz; 50 lumache senza scorza;, or if you haven't these, take with the shell, but crush everything.

Comments:
So one of the key ingredients is crushed glass in these face things!! Or snail or egg shells, which will rub off the top layer of the skin.

Method:
Take the pigne, clean and chop in rotelle, soak them for three days in latte di vacca, changing the milk once a day, although goat's milk is better. Then put it to distill  in an alembic with the powders at 2)
Crush the eggs and snails and mix, then put a layer of each in the alembic, one of the powders, one of termentina, then the snails, one above the other, until the alembic  is full. Then throw the white wine over this, heat with a temperate flame and keep the distiled water in a glass flask. It will make skin white and shiny, and remove wrinkles.


Recipe Name:
To make white melon water, for lovely skin.

Ingredients:
Melloni bianchi.
2) 4 oz allume zuccherina, 1 oz, argento vivo mortificato; 1 oz, of allume di rocca abruciata, 2 oz of porcellette , 1 lb. Termentina lavata, 12 ova fresche peste con le scorze, limoni bianchi tagliati in pezzi, zucchero, 4 oz, una caraffa di latte di capra; una di vin bianco.
(presumably the same porcellete as in previous recipe)

Comments:
The same can be done with acque d'angurie, and cime de i rovi, fiori di rovi, fiori di fave, di malva, di lambrusca, and other similar things.

Method:
Remove the skin and cut the melon into finger sized bits, leaving the seeds and so on. 
Take ingredients at 2), fill the lambicco with them, putting layer upon layer. Put over a slow heat, and keep the water produced in a glass flask to wash your face.


Recipe Name:
Perfect pumpkin water (domestic or wild.)

Ingredients:
Zucche o cocozze domestiche da mangiare, o delle salvatiche.
2) 6 oz Allume zuccherina, 1 oz, allume di piuma, 1 soldo di mirra, 1/2 lb termentina lavata, 4 ova fresche peste sbattute; 6 limoni tagliati in fette, ; lumache una carrafa di vin bianco.

Comments:
Zucche marine di ogni tempo can be used.

Method:
Clean the zucche, remove the skin, cut into round slices, adding ingredients at 2)
pulverise those ingredients which need it, mix and put the first layer of sugar, then powders, then snails, then wine, leons, eggs. Then put over a moderate heat and keep the water which is produced in a glass jar in the sun for 8-15 days.


Ingredients:
4 ova fresche.6 denari of termentina, well washed and white; 3 dinari of zucchero candio;  6 denari of pasta di borace, canfora, verderame, allume di rocca;  well-pulverised. 
2) 2/4 of argento vivo, mortificato con saliva o suco di limoni, 4 oz d'oglio di tartaro, una cipolla di giglio bianco,
3) suco di due limoni.
Ingredients for removing paste.(4) semola , malva, madre di viole paovnazze, scorze di fava, mollica di pane, mele crudo, buona quantita.

Method:
Soak the eggs for 8 days in very strong vinegar aceto fortissimo, until soft, and you can remove the shells, remove the yolk from the white, without letting it break. Then put it in a  glazed earthenware bowl. Cook the ingredients at (2) in white wine, then pass through a sieve, mix everthing with the egg whites, and mixing with juice of two lemons.
To remove the paste: Take ingredients at (4)and boil, until it becomes a soft smooth paste.


Ingredients:
4 oz Anime di persiche; semenza di zucche, 2 oz;,

Method:
Make an oil of these, and rub into the face morning and evening. It will remove the redness.


Ingredients:
1 lb Talco sfogliato sottile; oglio di mandle dolci;
2lbs. Salnitro abruciato.
 Tartaro crudo pestato grossamente;,

Comments:
Lovely for the skin and it keeps a long time

Implements:
a bronze mortar: Pignatta grandetta, un fornello di riverbero';  (A specialised oven used in Alchemy.  )

Method:
Take the talco and put in a bronze mortar, pouring a little almond oil over it so it can be crushed, or grind it with Giaccioli di fiume ( river icicles) in linen bags, rubbed between the hands. Then take the salnitro and put in an earthenware pot,  (pignatta), layer upon layer, with the talc and put in 'un fornello di riverbero' for four days. Then add the salnitro, replace in the fornello for another 4 days, and do this 3 times. Then dissolve everything in hot water. Next, strain through felt,   until the salnitro is removed. Then dry the talc and tie it in a piece of linen or wool like a ball, tie firmly and take the pignatta of raw tartar and in the middle bury the ball competely. Put this pignatta in the the fuoco di riverbero for 15 hours until the tartar is white. You will find the talc in the middle, and the cloth will be burnt. Then grind the talc and dissolve in acqua vite, decant the water and dry the talc, put to dissolve in a damp place, until it is like milk. (Mettete a "risolvere all'umido,  e risolverassi in acqua come latte.)


Recipe Name:
To make 'argentata' (a foundation) which makes the face white, red and shiny.

Ingredients:
1) 4 oz solimato, 1 tornese of Argento vivo per oncia del solimato, aceto bianco forte.
Mollica di pane. Acqua commune.
12-15 perle. 1 or 2 carlini d'oro macinato, 
a little canfora, borace,  and talco calcinato (if you have any)  
4 ove fresche
2) Limoncelli maturi, cleaned of peel and sliced finely. 12 ova fresche sbattute- (including shell); 2 oz termentina;

Comments:
Acqua commune,
The comment 'if you have any for talco calcinato. Why, is this hard ot get? Can it be more costly than gold and silver and pearls!! Or just difficult to produce!

Implements:
stone mortar, (a una mano? Perhaps a type of mortar?)

Method:
Grind the solimato in a stone mortar, and add the argento vivo adding the vinegar and leaving for 8 days. Put it then in a clean glazed earthenware pot with more vinegar and boil a little. Remove the argento vivo from the vinegar and put in a bowl  and take some white bread and dissolve in the argento vivo, mixing them until the argento vivo is clear. Then blow on it and the bread will blow away. Put this purged mercury with the solimato, grinding well 'a una mano' and everything will turn black then, repeat, it will become white as snow. Take boiling water and put in the mortar, mix well together, leave and remove the water carefully. This water is perfect for scab/mange. Put more water on boiled water, wash them as earlier, remove the water, and repeat 4-5 times. Then take the pearls and ground gold or silver, a little canfora, borace, talco calcinato if you have any, and mix everything in a mortar a una mano, and leave for 40 days in the sun, stirring everyday for 1/2 hour, 'sempre a una mano.' After 40 days take the eggs and heat them over the fire, when warm break and remove the milk they make, and put them in the mortar and grind. While you do this make this water: taking ingredients at (2). Put these to distil  over a slow heat, and remove about one carafe of water, use this to often the silver in the mortar, then put in an ampoule and keep in a cool place.


Ingredients:
1) Rugiadro collected from herbs. 2) Zucchero, Manna and Miele. Sugo di Pomi cotogne. Or Miva citoniorum,  An ampolletta of chopped (not pulverised) Agarico. 4) Fiori di rosa, Red or pink,  cicoria, endivia, sumosterre, buglossa, boragine, malva, lupuli, flowers and leaves from viole paonazze. 5) Aloe epatico pestato (one or two pounds) 5) Turbit, 1/2 oz. Cannella fina, spico, (sico), Assata, Squinanto, carpobalsamo, xilobaslamo, legno Aloe, Bdellio, o Mirra, Mastice. (1 oz. Each). 6) 1 oz. Pulverised Minute Pearls, well washed and dried and placed in lemon juice, cetrangoli, o Aranci. 1oz. Fine red coralli,, also placed in lemon or orange juice. 4oz. of vetriolo romano, o Unghero cotto, o bruciato. Flowers and tips of rosmarino, fiori di boragine, di Buglossa, di Salvia, di Celidonia, di Issopo, di Scabiosa, di Ruta, d'Ipericon, o Perforata, fiore di ogni mese, o primo fiore. 7) 1/2 oz. Of Zafframe pesto, 4 oz. Theriac; 1 oz. Cannella; 1/4 oz. Garofoli; 1 oz, legno Aloe; 1 oz. Anisi; 1 oz. Seme di Finocchio; 1/2 oz, seme d'Appio;  4-6 oz, grani di ginepro; 1/2 oz Ameos'; 2 oz, seeds and skin of Cedro; 1/2 oz. Mirra;  1/4 oz. Liquid Storace;  1 oz. Bengioi;  1 oz. Sandali; Mirabolani, 3 oz;  Pignuoli, 3 oz. ;  Ambra gialla, Also called Carbe, 2 oz. ; Radice di Dittamo  bianco, fresca o secca, 3 oz.;  1/8th oz. Of musk.

Comments:
Says Aloe is a 'santa medicina famigliare da tener sempre in casa, e da pigliarne un pochetto ogni settimana, una volta o due la sera, quando andate a letto. Che conserva il corpo da ogni putrefattione e umor tristo. Says that 'Et questo possono usare i poveri, e quei che non possono arrivare a far tutto questo liquore, del qual parliamo in questo capitolo. But it isn't clear what they can do. This comes after he tells you to keep the Aloe mixture safe.

Implements:
Glass containers. Three carafes. Glass jars. A large  bowl.  Ampoules. Pestle and mortar. Wax, bambace, linen, veil (muslin?) and carta pecora, to seal. Wooden boxes. A bocce. Caldara d'acqua, lambicco di vetro.

Method:
1} At dawn in May take a glass container and collect dew from herbs, such as Rosemary or la Boragine, (not Sage which can be poisonous).2) Take the three carafes, half full, one with sugar, one with manna, one with honey. Fill each with dew, seal with white wax and cloth  and conserve away from sunlight. 3) Then cover the Agarico with the sugo, or miva di cotogni, and keep covered. (above at 4). Mix equal parts of them all with the fresh Aloe. Put in a sunny place and add the mixed liquids bit by bit to make a thick sauce. Then cover the cup with a veil, or clean linen cloth, or piece of paper, to keep off dust, and keep on adding the other liquids when it dries out. Then take ingredients at 5), pulverise, put in a glass bowl covered in a palm of water and boil for one hour. Add to the Aloe mixture as earlier, then when it has all been added remove from the sun and keep safe.Keep this Aloe in wooden boxes. Similarly take acqua Vite, distilled once or twice, and in put in various glass ampoulette  pulverised ingredients which are mentioned at 6), and put three fingers of acqua vite on each. All these things to be crushed in a pestle and mortar, placed in flasks and covered in acqua vita. Leave covered with wax or bambace. Then take ingredients at 7) and pulverise and mix together and put in fiasco, and add acqua vita. Then take all these ampoules and place in the sun for a day, and a clear night, Next day take a large flask and pour into it the acqua vita from each containers, (make sure no dust gets in) and then keep it away from sunlight. Except, remember to keep the first three carafes with dew, away from sunlight. Then daily, add acqua vite to all the ampoules pouring it  into a large container the following day, and mixing it all up, until the acqua vita no longer takes any colour from the substances, this will be maybe ten times. Then take all the acque vite you have collected, and the first three ampoules with honey, manna and sugar, and mix with all the others,  and then put into bocce, small or medium sized. Then put the bocce in a cauldron of water with hay or straw inside, placed over the fire. The bocce has a capello, o lambicco di vetro, e il suo recipiente, e impastrata e fermata moto ben le congiunture del cappello, e del recipiente, che non respiri, darete fuoco al fornello, e farete bollir suavemente la caldara, e cosi distillera fuori e passera nel recipiente utttal'acqua vita chiraissima, come un cristallo. This is the acqua vita, and good for everything. The coloured liquids are kept, mixed and put into a bocce, well-sealed with wax, cotton and thick parchment and kept from heat and light. This is a precious and noble liquid , one or two spoonfuls  to be taken once or twice a week. Bear in mind , starting in May, it will take until all september or October to finish making this, because not all the plants appear at the same time. Whoever doesn't find all the ingredients, or can't get them, can do it with whatever he has, although these are not things which cost a great deal. For the most perfect mixture, dissolve fine gold in it, two parts of  the liquore, and one of dissolved gold.


Recipe Name:
How to Dissolve Gold in Drinkable Liquids .

Ingredients:
1 carafe suco di limoni
1) 4 oz manna, 2 oz zucchero candio

2) Oro finissimo, 24 carrati. Antimonio, Miele, Giulebbe rosato,

Comments:
Most of process not transcribed: the resulting gold to be mixed with the liquore Miracoloso, previous recipe.

Method:
Boil the lemon juice, strain 3-4 times through linen. Then distil 'per linguette di feltro'. Take the 2 lbs of raw honey, mix to the lemon juice, and 0.5 lb of salt, mix and boil slowly until the honey looses the foam. Distil what remains, starting over a low flame and increasing to a very hot fire. When cool, open the glass jar and remove the water , place in a flask and seal well. Break the glass jar and remove the lees from the bottom, put in a bowl which has been sealed to withstand  the heat and send to a glass blowers furnace, or similar, for 3 days. Crush the substance produced, adding ingredients at 1). Put in a well sealed glass jar and distil gently, until all distilled. Leave the still as it is when you have finished. Then take the gold and ingredients at 2), and grind very finely, remove the honey with hot water, distil. (Etc. ETC.lenghty instructions about process for another page. No more ingredients)


Recipe Name:
Potion or Drink to be used in place of syrups and medicines.

Ingredients:
Malva.  1) Sena, Legno d'india, (Guaicum)*, 7oz. Sale Armoniaco, 2 dramme. 2) Mele, 1/2 lb. Tartaro  di botte, 1/2 lb: White wine, 1/2 caraffe.: Reobarbaro, 3-4 oz.: Aloe epatico,  (or Loto) 1 oz.: Cassia, 1/2 oz.

Implements:
Carafes, a pignatta which can be sealed. Feather pillow, Sieve, strainer, cloths.

Method:
Boil the Malva in water, till it falls apart. Then strain it and take ingredients at (1) Sena, Legno d'india, (Guaicum)*, 7oz. Sale Armoniaco, 2 dramme and crush. Sieve the malva and heat up with the apples and make two ordinary carafes of the liquid. Add the wine lees, (Tartaro) and boil for half an hour, removing the foam. Then drain.  Pour this boiling hot slowly on a pignatta containing the powders above (1). Stir with a wooden spoon, immediately cover with a lid, close and seal well so nobody can breath it in. Heat it again for the length of two our fathers, and no more. Remove from heat, wrap in a feather pillow heated by the fire or a cloak or barrel of warm bran wrapped in cloth, and leave for ten or twelve hours. Then open, strain in a sieve. Take the wine and put in the rhubarb and after one or two days infusion, add the wine with the strained decottion made above. Add the Aloe prepared as in the recipe above (nb. 1) or as a speziale sees fit, crush finely add the Cassia. Conserve it all in a flask or well covered pignatta.


Recipe Name:
Easy and spendid Recipe for Mal Francese.

Ingredients:
Mele Crude 3 lb.: Sugo d'erba  detta 'primofiore' or fior d'ogni mese che e notissima, che si mangia in insalata, e ha la foglia larghetta e grossa o polposa, verde chiaro, con fiore giallo, forma di campanella. 1 lb. : legno d'india shaved or finelly cut, 1/2 lb. Aloe epatico, prepared as in recipe 3, 3oz. And steeping in suco di rose. Aceto Squillitico, 2oz. Cannella, 2-3 oz.

Method:
Boil the wood in water for a good while, then drain. Put the honey, herb juice in a pignatta, adding the Aloe which has been crushed and add the water in which the wood was boiled, about four or six fingers high, adding the Vinegar. Boil for half an hour or so, removing the foam then add the cannella, finely ground. Then remove and keep it, and drink.


Ingredients:
Fecce di mele, distilled. (dregs/lees) (1) sterco di cane 2oz: tartaro di vino bianco, 16th oz.; zucchero fine 1/8th:  allume di rocca bruciato, 1/8th: tutia, 1/8th: 2) frondi di olivi verdi;  Sugo di piantagine; cera verde; Mel rosato;: Vino bianco;  fiori di rose;  foglie di piantagine;  latte di donna; o latte di capra.

Implements:
A squirt, ('schizzatoro' for blowing up 'balloni da giocare'). and with that wine try to wash the penis very carefully with the inflator from inside, and then take a long wax candle,

Method:
If you haven't wine lees, take the honey, burn it in a pignatta and take the blackened lees, put them in another pignatta or an iron pan, in the glass burner's furnace, for thre or four days at high temperature which will produce a yellow substance. This is excellent for wounds / sores, eats up corrupted fesh, ('la carne trista,')  modifies and heals the good flesh and doesn't hurt.  It is much better than the precipitato which surgeons use on sores. Take an ounce of the mixed powders at 1) make sure all are crushed and passed through a fine sieve. Crush the olives, soaking them in a litte white wine, squeeze in the press, or between two stones and collect the juice, adding the same amount of plantain juice. Put in a pignattina on the heat, gradually adding the powders, mixing them and finish by adding  a little green wax, and mel rosato, until a liquid ointment is created and keep it, because it is precious for carnosita in delicate places, where strong medicines cannot be used, or would hurt, like the penis, nose, etc. Boil the rose petals in the white wine and plantain leaves, add the woman's or goat's milk and use this to wash the penis.


Recipe Name:
To heal overheating and ailments of the liver

Ingredients:
Farina d'orzo, or amito d'orzo ; Malva, cicoria, lupuli, endivia, and boragine:  all 1 oz. Sandali; Cassia estratta, or pulp, two nuts full. Zucchero or penniti, (as much as wanted)

Method:
Put the farina d'orzo to boil in water for half an hour, strarin and place in another clean pignatta  and with it put a little Malva, cicoria, lupuli, endivia, and boragine and boil these, until all disfatte, adding the Sandali and then strain;  take a piece of fine linen, whilst the water is hot put the linen with the cassia in it. With the fingers, press on the cloth and cassia, until it all goes into the water. Then add sugar, or penniti, and this makes a pleasant drink.


Method:
Boil the sambuco leaves in water, until they fall apart.


Ingredients:
Two egg whites. 2 oz. Tutia Alessandrina: 2 oz. Calcina viva lavata a nove acq. 1 oz. Cera nuova. Olio rosato as much as you like:


Ingredients:
Cera rossa 2 lb.; oglio d'olive; Pezzi di Alabastro 1/2 oz. Powdered mirra. Cime or foglie d' assentio, or mascenso, erba amara.

Implements:
Una brace. Molle. Una storta lutata a fondo scoperto. *

Method:
Take the wax, a bowl of olive oil and take the pieces of alabaster and beat them over the embers and extinguish three or four times, take them out with the tongs,  crush finely and mix the alabaster with the wax, and the oil, put everything to distil 'per una storta lutata a fondo scoperto,'* heating so much that the oil disappears, and keep what remains adding the powdered myrrh. When you want to use it, take the leaves or assentio and put them in the oil and leave it to boil a while, or fry it.


Ingredients:
Rosmarino. Pani piccolini or  foccaccie. Vino bianco piccolo. 1) Half a caraffe of Acqua vite. Yellow peel of a Cetrangolo, o narancio giallo. Fiori di rosmarino, one handful. Cannella, 1 oz;  Zafframe, 1/4 of a dramme;  Bengioi, 1 dramm;  Musco, poco; Confettione di diambra.

Method:
Heat the oven, with rosemary inside which burns, as you burn wood for bread. Cook a few small rolls and focaccette, and give them to the patient for eight or ten days. Drink the wine, without water and eat gentle foods, with cinnamon, sugar and every morning drink a finger height of acqua vite in a glass. Wash the ingredients at (1) in a decottione of Rosemary and other scented herbs, once a week, and every evening smear this on the chest with the distilled oil made above and boil the assentio in it. Get up late every morning, and at night keep a pillow at the stomach and sometimes eat the confettione di diambra.


Ingredients:
Farina di grano di frumento, for bread.  Water

Method:
Take the best part of the flour, passed through a fine sieve, enough to cover three gold scudi and put in a glass. Pour on well or fountain water, till it looks like milk and give it to the child to drink.


Ingredients:
Cetrangolo o Narancio; Oglio laurino, suco di ruta, suco di assentio, tiriaca, farina di lupini.

Method:
Take the orange make a hole in the top, as big as a giulio or a scudo and push out the juice, emptying it by more than half, put into this hole the remaining ingredients which have been boiled together for a while. Then empty the bowl and smear the belly-button with the liquid, the heart, the temples, nostrils and the extremes of the pulses (i polsi,) and you will behold a wonder.


Ingredients:
Acqua vita buona; polvere fine di mirra.

Method:
Wash the child's chest with the acqua vita, dusting on the myrrh powder, and make the child stay face down for a while, and with the fingers dipped in the acqua vita, and myrrh powder, start touching the nostrils and you see that the child will have bowel  movement and expel the dead worms.


Ingredients:
Tosti teneri della ferula. 1/4 Gentiana root: and 1/4 oz. long Brionia root : 1/8th oz. mirra .

Comments:
Some children afflicted with this ailment have had a post-mortem and when opened they found the worms attached to the heart.

Method:
Dry the ferula leaves and crush to fine powder, passing through a sieve. Puverise the other ingredients and put in a scodellino or a box, wherever you like and with a add a drop of water and take with two fingers, and wet the child's lips and mouth with this, do three or four times and when he has a bowel movement all the worms will be dead.


Ingredients:
Erba Camedreos, picked in May when flowering. Rosso d'uovo, 1 or 2.

Method:
Dry the herb in the shade and pulverise. When you want to use it take an egg yolk or two, beat it up with the powder and cook it, giving to the patient to eat.


Recipe Name:
Oil of Sulpher, For cancers, fistulas or old wounds

Ingredients:
Zolfo, finely ground.; Oglio commune;  Acqua di piantagine;  suco di cardo santo;  acqua vita.

Method:
Put the sulpher in a glass jar, impastato* with oil, so that it turns into a paste and distil in a glass jar and the oil which is distilled goes into a carafe, filling it half full. Fill it with the acqua di piantagine and suco di cardo santo, and bring to the boil.


Ingredients:
Assa fetida, Galbano, both 1 oz. Aceto:  Unguento Diabasilicon, 2 oz.

Method:
Take the assa  fetida, and Galbano and put them to soak in vinegar for a night. Then heat until it liquefies and dissolves. Pass through a piece of linen and mix with the Diabasilicon.


Ingredients:
Rami di fichi verdi. Or semenza della senape mescolata con aceto.

Method:
Squeeze out the fig juice  onto the bite. Or the other mixture.


Recipe Name:
To remove arrows or other metals from wounds

Method:
Take the suco di valeriana and dip a tasta * in it, and put it in the wound. On this put the crushed herb and tie a bandage round firmly and it will pull the metal out and heal the wound.


Recipe Name:
The great cough of children (Gran tosse dei Puttini)

Ingredients:
Suco di petrosemolo. Polvere di Cimino. Latte di donna. Semenza di lino, fieno greco. Butiro.

Method:
Take the suco di petrosemolo and cimino and milk and mix together, give it to the child to drink. Make an unguent of the following: the linen seeds and fieno greco are boiled in water, then mixed with butiro and squeezed and this is smeared on the chest, giving it warmth.


Recipe Name:
For those who have had a bang on the head

Ingredients:
Sal da mangiare: 2oz.: Mele crude 3oz.; cimino, 3 oz.; termentina, 2 oz,;

Comments:
He fails to tell you where to place it on the body.

Method:
Mix the ingredients over a flame and spread it over a piece of cloth and put it hot over the fire e disentiera, and  will heal perfectly .


Ingredients:
(1) Menta, Salvia, Pulegio, Rosemarino, Issopo, Artemisia, Mentastro, Calamento, Camomilla, Mille foglio, Erba di San Giovanni, Ascenzo, Abrotano, Centaurea,: a handful of each. Buon Vino Bianco 2) Oglio antiquo, 2  oz, Oglio di porri 1 oz, Amandole, 1 oz: suco di ruta,  all 1/2 oz.:  Malvagia, 1 1/2 oz.: (3) Spico Nardo, Colquintida, Castoreo, Mastice, all 1/12,  grains. Musco, 1 1/2 grains.

Implements:
a pignatta with a large opening. AN Ombuto di ferro stagno*

Method:
Boil the herbs(1)  with the wine and place in a clean pignatta, and see that half is herbs and half wine . Reduce by a third, Then get the speziale to make you this oil. (2) Then get a long necked ampoule and boil over a slow flame, until it has almost all evaporated, then add to these the pulverised ingredients at (3). Close the ampoule well, so nothing escapes and put in a pignatta full of water and boil for three hours, then take off the head, empty the liquid in a fiaschetto, or plate and place in the sun and leave until clear. Sieve through fine cloth and press. Take the musk and mix with the oil,  stirring carefully with a spatula, so it incorporates well, put the musk in a bowl and little by little mix the incorporated oil and mix together, then close in an ampoule with parchment and wax. Then take the pan with the herbs and heat it over a flame, and take a funnel made of white iron (ferro stagno* )and when you go to bed, cover the pignatta.with the funnel.


Recipe Name:
To Heal a woman whose womb is falling out.

Ingredients:
Pietra viva, from under the ground. Aceto,  Ruta. Pan porcino, ruta, same amounts; oglio antiquo

Method:
Take the stone which has been below ground for many days and put in a covered crucible in a hot fire and once hot put it in a mastello and sprinkle with vinegar and place the woman above it, so it makes a perfume. Do this by evening and put her to bed. Take the ruta and extract the suco, make a ballotta di bambace, attach a string, to attach to the thighs, and bathe this ballotta with the suco di ruta, put at the mouth of the womb. The womb will draw this inside, but be careful it is well attached to the legs or it will not come back out. Then make an unguent for the kidneys, taking the pana porcino and ruta, and grind these well, put them to boil in a pignatta with oglio antiquo, reducing by a third and cooling down. Rub well till you get the substance out, then put it in another pignatta, put some new wax, mixing well and use this on the kidneys.


Recipe Name:
To make a woman's milk come and increase


Recipe Name:
For the boils  produced by Mal Francese, old and new

Ingredients:
(1) Bolo armeno, aceto,  oglio rosato. (2) Oglio di Eusorbio, 2 parts. Oglio violato, 1 part. Vino rosso.  Butero

Method:
Take the ingredients at (1) and make a ointment  around the boil, two or three fingers wide. Then take the oils at (2) and mix and smear on the boils, which have been washed with the wine. Place several pieces of linen on top, smearing them with a little butter  leave for a few hours. Uncover the boil and see if it has vessicata,* if not, repeat with the oil, and wine. Then pierce it with an iron or let it burst. Cure with healing unguents.


Recipe Name:
Another Remedy for Boils produced by the Mal Francese

Ingredients:
Unguento Aureo, three parrts: finely ground solimato , one part. Butiro.

Comments:
The unguent with solimato pulls the moisture and sad humours out , so it heals the entire limb, not just the boil. See also the acqua mirabile for la rogna, below.

Method:
Mix the solimato with the unguent and place on the boil in some cloth and leave it for a day, or longer if possible. Repeat until the boils disappear. Then put a rag with butter washed in wine on them.


Recipe Name:
For someone who has been struck on the head with wood or stone.

Method:
Crush the erba and make a juice and if the wound is bleeding, dry it and clean well, washing it with white wine, or water, and then put the juice on it and on this the crushed herb. Bandage well and leave for a day.


Recipe Name:
Water for cleaning every kind of wound in a few hours.

Ingredients:
1 lb. Cera gialla nuova. Malvagia, vin greco o vino bianco buono. Pugno di mattoni pesti sottilmente.

Implements:
Pignatta, scodella, storta di vetro lutata*,

Method:
Melt the wax and place in a bowl, with the wine and return to the heat to melt again, throw it in the wine again, melt again, seven times. Then add the crushed brick, and place in a storta di vetro lutata*, to half way up the neck. Seal well  and distil, first over a slow flame for 8 hours, gradually increasing to a great heat. Leave to cool, remove the water and put in a glass jar, close well with wax and waxed cloth, keep in cool dry place.


Recipe Name:
Hypericon Oil, or Perforata, or Red Oil.

Ingredients:
Erba Hipericon/or San Giovanni/ Perforata. Molto Vino Bianco. Olio D'oliva buona. Take five or six pounds of this mixture, and then add: (2)Solfo vivo, 1/2 lb. Sal comune bianco, 8 oz.; Umbrici or Vermi rossi di terra, a bowlful, washed with water, wine, and mel rosato 4 oz. Termentina o Alricina, 10 oz.  washed with well water. Lardo di porco, well beaten, 1/2 lb. Suco di Tasso Barbasso, Suco di dittamo bianco o negro, 4 oz each. Zafframe, 3 oz.; Radice di  dittamo; Radice di gentiana; Radice di imperatoria, Radice di carlina; Radice di valeriana;  Radice di celidonia, 2 oz. Each, well crushed, whether fresh or dried. Mirra, 1 oz;  Cera rossa, 2oz;   Tiriaca 2 oz.;  Semenza di cedro, 1 oz;  Semenza di edera matura, 3 oz,; Semenza di lauro matura, 4 oz.;  Acqua vite, 6 oz; Cannella o cinamono 1 oz.; Legno Aloe, 1/2 oz.,

Method:
Pick the hypericon flowers in May or June, crush in a marble mortar and place in a glass flask or urinal. Add the wine, and oil, two fingers high and close  securely. The day of Saint John, (or between 20th and 30th of the month or June), after dawn, pick the flowers of the herb, removing from the tips and cut and crush well. You crush the flowers and the leaves separately and then mix with ratio of 4:1 (flowers: leaves). Then place in the flask with the wine and oil, and add more of the liquids, keeping the herbs covered, close well and place in the sun. Then ten days later when the flowers have produced their seeds, pick them at dawn and crush and mix with the rest, adding only oil this time, a ratio of one third of the new flowers to the old mixture. Place hay or straw in the Caldara, and heat it up and put the fiasco in the staw, so it cannot break as the water boils, this is called a bagno maria, and is used for distiling with a lambicco, putrefying or evaporating, or dissolving,. Boil until the wine has nearly all evaporated, leaving the top of the fiasco open so it can escape. Grind all the herbs and ingredients at (2) finely and place in the fiasco or urinal with the herbs and flowers and oil, seal tightly so nothing can escape, heat the caldara without it boiling and keep on the heat for two or three days, or only days if the nights are not possible. Then keep the fiasco/bottle in the sun all summer, keeping sealed. This oil improves with age, but it is good to add new flowers/leaves/seeds each year, boiling them up for four to six hours in olive oil, then adding. And every four years, remove the flowers, squeeze them out and throw the old flowers away, adding new ones.


Ingredients:
A Cane Rosso di pelo,  not too old. 80-100 scorpioni.  A good bowlful of Lumbrici, or washed red earthworms.  2) Herbs: A handful of Ipericon, one of Altea, one of Malvavisco, One of Ebuli, which is like Sambuco, 1 oz. Zaffrano. (3) Unguento Agrippia, 7oz.  Medolla di stinchi e gangali di presciutto, 1 lb;Medola di stinchi d'asino delle gambe di dientro, 1 lb, or whaever you can get. (4) a bowlful of oglio rosato, Mastice, 3 oz,' gummi elemi, 2 oz; cera rossa, 8 oz,'  (gumma e mastice well pulverised and sieved. (5) Hipericon, Erba altea, o Malvasvisco, or Unguento Dialtea, three tartarughe, or testugini, or bisce, di terra. (6) Two parts of olio rosato, one of olio violato, to two parts of red dog oil.

Implements:
Caudron, Bacile di rame/ottone; seive, strainer, canevaccio;

Method:
The dog must not eat for three days. Strangle it. And leave for quarter of an hour. Have a cauldron of oil boiling, and put the dog in, whole or in parts. Boil till it disintegrates, well covered. Put the scorpions in the copper basin and scald them, till angry, then put in the cauldron with the dog. Add the worms, and the herbs. Adding water if necessary, if it dries out. When cool, throw away the bones and herbs, having sqeezed out the herbs first . Remove the top layer-the fat and oil, and a little water if it remains, and pass through a sieve or canevaccio rinsed in white wine. Then mix the remaining ingredients with the oil and fat to boil, adding the mastice and gum, and wax, boil for half-an hour, leave to cool, keep in a covered vase, in the sun for a few days. You can also add hypericon flowers, by reboiling the fat and oil, as above, and adding the ingredients at (5) and this is an excellent ointment for podagre. Adding also oils at (6).


Ingredients:
Olio rosato; Olio violato;  Olio di Nenufar or Ninfea;  Olio di spico;  olio di costo; olio laurino; olio di noci moscate; olio di fiori di Gelsomini; 1 lb. of each. The oil of nutmeg and cinnamen must be powdered and boiled in olio d'oliva. Olio del Xilobalsamo; of Carpobalsamo; of Legno Aloe; of Mirra ; of Incenso; of Gomma di edera;  Mastice, and Garofoli. You need 1/2 lb of these spice oils. 1/2 oz. Of Olio di Canfora, heated not boiled, and quicky covered, because it will evaporate.  Olio di termentino, 1 lb;  3 oz. of Olio di storace.  (2) 3 Scorzoni di negri velenosi, 3 Serpi, 3 Bisce, 3 Aspidi sordi, 3 Viperi, 3 Rospi, 3 Botte, 10 Tarantole, 50 Scorpioni. Any other poisonous animals you may have, live. And some white wine. (2) Olio di ipericon (about half the measure of the oil just made):  one third part of the oil of red dog: Celidonia flowers;  Ipericon flowers as wished. (3) Suco di Tasso barbasso, suco di Dittamo bianco, (1 lb each). Suco di Crispino rosso. (a herb like il cardo) Crispino bianco, which is eaten in salad everywhere in Italy, also called Cardoncello rosso, or Crispignio, which is miraculous (1 lb.) Cardo Santo flowers, 1 lb. Legno Aloe 1 oz, powdered. 1 oz zafframe.

Implements:
Caldara grande id rame stagnoato, forma alta, non larga, con coperchio. Best is a fonello da queli da fare il salnitro, or per saponi.

Method:
Put all these things  together in a large copper cauldron, with high sides and not too wide,  so everything is covered in oil.  Put on a gentle heat, adding the poisonous animals as and when you find them. Keeping the lid tightly cosed, keep over gentle heat for 5 or 6 days. When the animals have all disintegrated  remove them,  squeezing well in a canevaccio steeped in wine. Taking ingredients at (2) mix together too. Add ingredients at (3), mix and put it in the sun for the summer in a gass jar, well covered, and keep carefully.


Ingredients:
A glass of vin greco o malvagia; polvere di Assarabac,  enough to cover a giulio d'argento twice.  (2) Salvia, Ruta, Bursa pastoris, in equal amounts, finely ground.  strong white vinegar.

Method:
Cover the ingredients at (2) with the vinegar.


Ingredients:
A gold Scudo, or ring without a stone. (or Iron, or a coal if you don't have them). Lessia forte. Rasano da mangiare. Sale da mangiare

Comments:
If you don't have the Rasano you can use common roots and leaves used in salad, cut into pieces.  (So, a cheaper, easier option) Also useful for deafness.

Method:
Heat the gold till it is red, then burn the warts of verrucas with it. Leave it a while then wash with the lessia. Two or three times, in one or more days. Take the radish  and make a hole in it, removing the top, to make a little cover for it. Fill the hole with salt, finely chopped. Cover it with its cloth, and put in a bowl, leave a night and next morning you will find the water has diminished, making salt water, with the virtues of radish and use this.


Recipe Name:
For Plurisy, (Alla puntura, or mal di Costa)

Ingredients:
Melo appio; cioe,  quelle pome che si mangiano, che sono gialle e odorifere.  If none, take a melo o pomo called mele Rose. Incenso maschio, 3-4 grains, also known as Olibano.

Method:
Take  one apple and cut it in half, length wise, removing the core, making a hole. In the hollow put the incense, and cover with the piece removed, and cook under the ashes, without burning, until tender and nearly liquified. Then cut in four parts and give to the patient to eat.


Ingredients:
Farina che vola, farina volatile, o polline, (Naples.) Water. Olio di scorpioni.

Implements:
Lucerna di Ferro, cocchiaretta, o pignattina.

Method:
Mix the flour with water, make a focaccetta as big as a scudo d'oro, which can be cooked or fried in a pan, with the scorpion oil.


Method:
Cut open the bread, and dab with the theriac on both sids.


Ingredients:
Un dente di porco cingiale. And if the pain if on the right side, so the tooth must be, etc. Except, experience has shown that this doesn't matter.  Acqua d'orzo, o acqua pettorale, o brodo di ceci rossi, or Vino bianco.

Comments:
(Ma si e ancor veduto per esperienza che questo non importa e che o dal dritto, o dal manco che stia, ogni sorte di tai denti sono buoni.

Method:
Whittle the tooth with a knife, over some paper, and take enough to cover two silver giulii, or gold scudi.


Recipe Name:
Chest water for those with pleurisy (Mal della punta)

Ingredients:
Radice di Malvavisco, or Altea (1/2 lb.) (1) Mel rosato, or mele crudo, 1/2 lb; orzo mondo, 1 1/2 lb, iuiube o giuggioe, 4 oz., fichi secchi, 3 oz., uva passa senza acini, una commune (cotta al forno come si fa per tutto,) 3 oz.; erba scabiosa con le sue radiche, nette, 2 lb, three mele o pome Appie o rose, o come le potete havere, cut finely, olibano o incenso maschio, 1 oz, Cardo santo verde o secco, a small handful.

Method:
Strip off the outside and woody parts, cut finely and crush and put in a large pignatta and boil with the other ingredients (1) Boil everything, until disintegrated. Then strain, pressing the substances, and give to drink.


Ingredients:
(1) Frondi di oliva, acqua di piantagine. (2) Half a glass of acqua rosa, the same of mel rosato, 1 oz, polpa di cassia, an amount the size of a bean, alume di rocca, burnt, 2 oz, tartaro di vino-rasina o greppola, 1/8th oz. Zucchero fino o grosso, 1/2 oz, 1 oz acqua di paintagine, acqua di pozzo o fiume in which radiche di malvasviso are boiled, cut fine.

Method:
Crush the olive leaves and mix with plantain water, squeeze out. This should be enough, but if the case is severe, take the ingredients at (2) and mix and boil gently for the length of two "our fathers'. " Can even add 1/4 oz of verderame.


Ingredients:
Agrimonia, white wine, foglie di  oliva, rose secche, (2)Aristologia lunga e tonda, Mastice, Mirra, Sangue di Drago, Aloe epatico, Tutia,  Zuccha o cocozza bruciata, (1 oz each) (3) Mumia, bolo armeno, ana, 1/4 oz each.

Method:
Put the agrimonia to boil in the wine, having crushed it and put it with the olive leaves, also crushed and boil well for two miserere. With that wine wash the wound and all around it, whilst still warm. Take the ingredients at (2) and (3) and crush and sieve them and put on the wound. Then take those cooked in the wine and put them on top and tie them together, tie with a strip of cloth and leave until they change.  Do this twice a day, and there will be  a great effect in a few days.


Ingredients:
Pelle di cane, or Camozza, or capretto, o Mantonina bianca 2) Ragia di pino, 2 lb,  Galbano, 5 oz, Mastice, 1 oz, Musco, Ambra, Zibetto, all car. 5:  10 or 15 Porcellette di Santo Antonio, (Earwigs,) ( piccoli, like cimici grossi, con molti piedi, che si trovano sotto le pietre). assongia di porco.(3)  Agimonia, foglie d'olvia, et rose, et piantagine.

Method:
Cut two pieces of the skin, a little  bigger than a palm . In a pignatta on the fire melt the ingredients at (2). Crush the gum in some paper. Put the ragia di galbano in a bowl over slow heat, add the mastice, (gum) , without burning, and stir well, when mixed place hot over the skins. (creating a poultice) Crush the earrwigs with some assongia di porco and make a salve. Heat the skins in the fire,  put under the knee, or the calves, and leave them and leave for two or three days. When you remove them  you will see that they have made blisters which you break, and water will escape. Then wash with wine, in which you have cooked the ingredients at (3) and dry it, dry the plaster heat it, and reapply it. Do this every three or four days, and you will see the plaster pulls water away from the leg, removing the inflammation.


Ingredients:
Mele crude,  3lbs, 2 Bicchieri d'acqua, Radice di Acoro, 1 lb.,  cannella, 1 oz., (2) Malva, Mercorella, Finocchi verdi o secchi, Assentio erba, Ruta, Zucca selvatica grattata,  in equal parts. (3) mele spumato, 3 spoonfuls, oglio di camomilla, oglio di ruta, both 1 1/2 oz.,

Method:
Cook the honey in water over slow heat, remove the foam. Take the Acoro, wash, cut and chop finely, add it slowly to the honey, stirring, for an hour, add the canella. Remove and conserve in alberelli or same pignatta. For severe cases, add the ingredients at (2), boil, in water with two handfuls of semola, allow to cool, then add ingredients at (3) and mix. .


Ingredients:
Pilole elefagine, ermodattili maggiori, ermodattii minori, uno scropulo each. Three grains of sal gemma. Suco di rose,

Method:
Take the ingredients and make 5 pills with them.


Ingredients:
Acqua di piantagine, 2 glasses, acqua rosa, one glass, acqua di fiori di Cetrangoli, o Naranci, 1/2 glass, 1 oz. Solimato, that is argento vivo sublimato bianco well pulverised.

Method:
Put to boil slowly for 15 mins. Remove and when nearly cool, put in a small carafe or vial.


Ingredients:
Mandole dell'ossa delle persiche.(quinces). (2) Sterco d'asino negro, or bianco. Fresco or not too dry. Vino Bianco. Anisi, a pugno: oglio di camomilla: oglio di cappari:  un pugnetto di semola. Sale e pane.

Method:
Eat five mandorle from the quinces before eating any food, with salt and bread, .They are also an excellent remedy against wine, preventing one from getting drunk, or having a bad head, and give good appetite, improve the chest and stomach, and prevents worms. The other method of protection is to eat the herb Artemisia in salads, soups, pies, omlettes etc. Careful, not erba matricaria, which is bitter.  It looks like prezzemolo, or Erba San giovanni, or erba Santa Maria,  tastes sweet rather than bitter. Also, can make an plaster by boiling the donkey excrement in wine, adding the ingredients at ) 2). For a miserere, removing and sqeeze the substance whilst in the wine, and make a clister for the patient, as hot as possible, and keep it in place as long as possible.


Ingredients:
succo delle granella del Berbeti, when red and mature, 1/2 glass : enough pulverised red coral to cover two gold scudi.


Recipe Name:
Perfect remedy for Mal di Fianco and for those who cannot urinate, due to stones or renella

Ingredients:
Fine powder of Virga Aurea, 1 spoonful. 1 Fresh egg.

Method:
Put the Virga Aurea in the fresh cooked egg (cotto da bere).


Ingredients:
(1) Semenza di viole paonazze, semenza di Lappole including its curls (1 lb.) Un lepro, Vino bianco (2) Foglie d'arbore di quercia secche. Dry salsifragia , 1/2 lb. Granelli di lauro, oz.5.

Method:
Dry the lappole in the oven until hard, then crush. Strangle the lepro with a cord and  put whole or chopped into several vases, pignatte or tegami,and cook well in oven, until it turns to powder under your touch, then crush and mix with the other two powders. Pulverise the ingredients at (2).


Recipe Name:
Last remedy for stones, whether in the kidney or bladder.

Ingredients:
Sterco fresco di Bue. Collected each week in May, from cattle kept outdoors. 3 or 4 Radici or Ravanelle eaten with insalata . Buon Vino greco or malvasia. Acqua da fragole, succo di limoncelli, cetrangoli, a pinch of zucchero some mel rosato, some powders mentioned in earlier recipe, enough to cover a scudo.

Method:
Distil the dung in vaso di vetro or creta, which will give a clear odourless fluid. Chop the radishes finely and put in carafe with the wine and leave for a day and night. Take one part of this wine, two parts of the dung-water, 1/2 part of strawberry water, the lemon juice and cetrangoli and mix them, giving half a glassful, add pinch of sugar, some mel rosato, the powders.


Recipe Name:
For those who spit blood having ruptured a vein in the chest.

Ingredients:
Pulverised Sterco di sorci, (topi).  1/2 glass of Suco di paintagine; a little zucchero or penniti.

Method:
Put enough dung to cover a carlino in the suco di piantagine, with the sugar.


Recipe Name:
For the tisichi, (short-winded, those with a cough in lungs)

Ingredients:
Erba farfarela o farfara. Lardo di Porco, beaten . Un'uovo fresco.

Method:
Mix the beaten pork and the egg, cook and make an omlette with it.


Recipe Name:
For pain in the lumbar region, pain in the fianco, or kidneys.

Ingredients:
Liquid storace , 3/4 oz. Grasso di cappone o gallina. Grasso di oca , di anatra, each 5 dramms. Oglio rosato, 4 dramms, cera rossa, 2 1/2 drams, butiro, 1/2 dram.

Method:
Liquefy the fats and oil, the butter and strain them, mixing well. Then add the storace.


Ingredients:
Rosmarino, leaves and flowers, Vino bianco, Mirra, Cannella, Bengioi.

Method:
Boil the rosemary in the wine, with the other ingredients.


Recipe Name:
For the bite of a rabid dog and the maddness which afflicts them.


Recipe Name:
To remove Mucus (La carne tristo che nasce nel naso ?)

Ingredients:
Porri which have not been transpanted.  Cera verde. Fine powder of tartaro dibotte.

Method:
Make a juice of the leeks and make a salve with the wax, add the tartaro.


Recipe Name:
For someone who has fallen from up high and may have an internal injury.

Ingredients:
Half a glass of olive oil.  Powder di seme di nasturio,/nasturtio also called Agretto, which is eaten in salad. (in 1/2 a walnut shell); if not available give polvere di mesue, from a speziale. (2) oglio rosato, mortelle flowers and dry rose petals. (for bruising)


Ingredients:
Ground Erba Farfara, with roots; farina di seme di lino, grasso di porco maschio. Vino.

Method:
Mix the farfara with the linen seed and pork fat, make a plaster.


Method:
Put testicles in a pignatta, in the ashes and burn until they are a powder. Take enough to cover two danari and place in white wine.


Recipe Name:
To remove a goitre from the throat within 50 days

Ingredients:
Radice di Ebuli, washed. Vino bianco. Spongia abbruciata, 1/2 lb; 200 grani di pepe.

Method:
Crush the ingredients and boil in the wine with radice dell'Ebulo, cook well. Strain and keep the wine in a well-sealed vase in a cool place.


Recipe Name:
To remove a goitre in the thoat  more easily than no.60


Recipe Name:
Another recipe for removing a lump in the throat.

Ingredients:
Take a Polipodio , the kind which lives under chestnut trees, if possible. Vino, Mele.


Recipe Name:
To make the skin shrink after a lump  has been removed.

Ingredients:
(1) Take bottoni o calicetti di rose, che restano sopra li rosari, come pater nostri in forma di ovo col seme dentro. Allume di rocca: Balaustri;  (similar amounts) Aceto bianco2) Sommacco pesto.

Method:
Take ingredients at (1)  and boil in the vinegar, till reduced by a third. Add sommacco, half the amount of one of these things agove, and boil until nearly all the vinegar has reduced.


Ingredients:
Acqua di Scabiosa, 1 lb. Acqua vita, 1 oz.


Ingredients:
Take rondini, Mel rosato, farina di amito.

Method:
Dry the swallows in the oven, pulverise. Put in the mouth on the painful area, or mix with mel rosato and the flour and put in the mouth, allowing it to run down.


Ingredients:
Biacca, or cerussa, 4 oz well pulverised. Oglio di oliva, 8 oz.

Method:
Boil together for 5 or 6 hours, mixing continuously and when it is black, it will be ready.


Ingredients:
Una Gallina . Sementa di Sisamo, known as Giurgiulea in Naples. Mele. For the oil: the kind of small blind serpe  which can be found in the hay, with big hard skin, sometimes called Lucengola. Olive oil.

Method:
Kill the chicken and prepare as if for eating, boiling in a large pot, with much water and no salt. Boil until the meat comes away from the bones and dry the bones in the oven, until blackened.Take the semenza di Sisamo, powder, mix with the chicken bones, in equal quantitites. Take everything, mix with honey and give to the patient. To prepare an oil for external application: boil the snake in the oil until it disintegrates.


Ingredients:
Garofani; noci moscate; gengiovo; zedoaria; pepe lungo; pepe tondo; ana 1 oz.; coccole di ginepro, scorze di aranci, fiori di salvia, bassilico, ramerino, maggiorana, menta rotonda, coccole di alloro, pulegio, gentiana, calamento, fiori di sambuco, all 1 oz;, fiori di rose bianche e rosse; spico nardo, legno aloe, cubebe silvestri, cardamon, cannella fina, calamo aromatico, sticados, Camedreos, all 1 oz; Camepiteos, Melligetra, Mastice, Incenso maschio. Aloe epatico, all 1 oz;  seme di Aneto, seme di Matricale, Fichi secchi, Uva passa, polpe di Dattili, amandole dolci, Occhi di Pine, mele bianco 6 oz. Zucchero in an equal amount to the above ingredients. Acqua Vita (same weight as above ingredients)

Method:
Mix ingredients together, adding the acqua vita which has been distilled five times, leave in a sealed glass boccia for two days, then put on the flame 'col lambicco,' and the recipient, and distil over a slow heat, and a clear precious liquid will be produced. Continue until it starts to change colour, becoming white. Change the receptacle for the white water which is only good for making the face white  and washing away freckles and marks, making the skin beautiful, scented and luminous, used by great ladies. Take the first clear water, weigh it with an equal amount of acqua vita , called Mel Balsami, and put in a sealed jar, leave for two days, then distil over slow heat until a second water is produced, clear and scented, and if this water emerges like rain water, change containers, and wait for the third water, which is red as blood, which you put in a vial sealed with earth, and keep like a precious stone.


Recipe Name:
To Heal the Mad (A sanare un pazzo, secreto moto raro, e perfettissimo, cosi se sia per haverli dato volta il cervello, come per fatture, (magia, stregoneria) o per qual si voglia cagione.

Ingredients:
The Clysters: 1) Acqua, semola di frumento, oglio, sale. 2) Acqua, malva, mercorella, paretaria, foglie di viole, olio, Sale, 3) Acqua, olio, sale, vin cotto, mele. 4) as at 3, and endivia, buglossa, cime d'ebuli. 1 oz. of polpa di cassia, 1/8th oz. of mitridato. 
The  Medicine: Polipodio quercino fresco, un manipolo o due, two fingerlengths in a glass; 2 oz mel rosato, 1/4 oz of elettuario, o aromatico rosato, as much diasiniconne.
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.

Implements:
Cauterising iron button, piece of shoe sole, pared and thinned, a bandage.

Method:
Make four clysters, on four successive mornings . 1) Boil all in Water, 2) Boil all in water 3) and 4) same. Strain all this, add 1 oz. of polpa di cassia, 1/8th oz. Of mitridato.
The medicine. Crush the polipodio, and  extract juice, put in glass and add mel rosato, elettuario, and diasiniccone. Mix all.
The Salve:crush the herbs, boil in a pignatta till nearly evaporated, add the oils, mix well over the heat and make a salve.


Ingredients:
Aloe lavato, 1 dramm; radice di cocozza salvatica, Mirabolani di ogni sorte, diagridi, (or two words?), di mastice, granelli di lauro, e rose, 1/2 dram each, zafframe, 30 grains; mirra, 15 grains'. Suco di cavoli.

Method:
Chop finely and mix together, with the juice to make the pills.


Ingredients:
Two rossi d'uovo, two coins of cera nuova, a little oglio rosato, a litte tutia in acqua rosa. For wine wash: Vino bianco, fiori di rose, foglie di piantagine, foglie di olive verdi.

Method:
Melt all together in a clean bowl and when cold, spread on a cloth and place on affected area. Boil the leaves in the wine.


Recipe Name:
To mature boils and sores around the penis or on women's breasts

Ingredients:
mollica di pane, uva passa, (crushed) buturo, assogna di porco, levatoro di pane, latte di vacca. Some powdered zafframe. Unguenti attrattivi.  (2) Unguento d'Aloe, tutia, altri tali che saldino. (3) Oglio rosato and rosso d'uovo.

Method:
Mix together and heat, making an unguent. Also make an unguent with ingredients at (2)


Recipe Name:
To prevent a boil or sore from forming in its early stages

Ingredients:
Un cetrangolo o narancio, stoppa, urine, salt

Method:
Cut the lemon or orange in half, take some straw put in a bowl  and urinate on it , then squeeze it and throw some salt on top and crush finely.


Ingredients:
Pece greca, o colofonia, zolfo, incenso bianco, in equal quantities. Chiaro d'uovo.

Method:
Crush well and mix with the egg white, smear on the parchment.


Recipe Name:
A Secret from India for much of the human body.


Ingredients:
1/2 oz. Zolfo, finely ground. Ovo fresco cotto da bevere. Same amount of bengioi, as much as a chickpea, grind.


Ingredients:
1) Root of Malvavisco. 2-3 lbs. (2) liquiritia o legno dolce, erba issopo, verde o secca, salvia , rosmarino, cardo santo, fichi secchi, uva passa, amito d'orzo, overo farina d'orzo. (as much of one as of the other). A fistful of cicorea with roots. (3) 1 oz. cannella, 1/4 oz. bengioi pestato, a little musco.

Implements:
Canevaccio, (container made of coarse hemp) Caldara

Method:
Clean and chop the malvavisco, grind.  Fill a cauldron with five or six carafes of water, put the ingredients at (2) into it.  Boil for one to two hours, then remove, cool, take all the ingredients and put in a clean canevaccio, strain, so all the juices remain in the water. Take the water, put it in the same cauldron, add the crushed Malvavisco root, bring back to boil for three hours. Remove, strain again so juices return to the water. Put the decotion into a pot, with as many apples and boil gently, removing the foam when the apples produce it. Boil for a long time, then add the ingredients at (3), removing from heat and cover.


Recipe Name:
Secret for clearing up coughs, through the soles of the feet.

Ingredients:
Two or three heads aglio. Assogna di porco


Recipe Name:
To heal old wounds which are suppurating/infected

Ingredients:
1) 3 oz termentina lavata, acqua di rose, o piantagine, egg yolk, 1 oz and 1/2 of oglio rosato, 1/16th oz of solimato. (2) For the Difensivo,  oglio rosato, 2 parts, aceto, 1/2 part, bolo armeno, a little. (3) butiro.

Method:
Take the termentina, wash in water, then the rose water and mix with the other ingredients at (1) and spread on a piece of cloth.


Method:
Cut the onion in half, make a hole and fill it with theriac, replace the onion half and place a piece of white wet linen around it, put the onion beneath the ashes till cooked, then squeeze out the juice.


Ingredients:
Mastice, cipresso, incenso, macis, Ascenzo, Mirra, \Legno Aloe, ocellietti, Tegname, Muschio, Ambracane, Noce Muscate, Mortella, Mastice, Lauro, Rosmarino, Salvia, Rose, Sambuco, Garofoli, Ginepro,  Ruta, Pece, Rasa.

Method:
Crush all and mix, throw over a hot bracier to scent the room.


Method:
Remove the skins of the laurel seeds and grind into powder.


Ingredients:
Dittamo bianco, tormentilla, coralli bianchi, gentiana, bolo armenio, terra sigillata, acqua d'endivia, acqua di foglie di ruta, acqua rosata, aceto bianco, acqua de scabinela, (or scabiosa).

Method:
Pulverise everything, put in a glass or vase, with the vinegar covering them.


Ingredients:
Dittamo bianco, Aristrologia rotonda. Carlina, Verbena, Gentiana, Zedoaria, corno di cervo,  2oz. Handful of ruta, six inghistare (?) of the best wine you can find.

Method:
Crush and place all the ingredients in a flask  with the wine.


Ingredients:
Oglio commune, 1 1/2 quarts. Well crushed Cerusa  an.4oz.Litargirio di argento crivellato, 3 oz. Cera comune, 4 oz. Aceto 2) Diacolognia magna and allume arsa.

Comments:
This edition uses this abbreviation, an. Before oz. What does it mean?

Method:
Heat up the oil, add the cerusa the other ingredients at ( 1) until it can be spread on a marble slab with a finger, then remove from heat and add the vinegar, standing well back so it doesn't go in your face. This makes a salve or unguent.


Ingredients:
Cima di Ruta, Clove of aglio, clove of walnut, a grain of salt.


Ingredients:
1 lb. Of acqua di vita, 1 lb of acqua di melissa, 1 lb of acqua di piantagine.


Ingredients:
one third of a glass of theriac, one third of acqua di vita, one third of acqua -urine-of a healthy virgin child. (Putto vergine e sano)


Ingredients:
1) The best Theriac: a colombino or pippone. 2) for the Plaister: Assongia di porco senza sale, two parts, absinthium, or grassella, well crushed.


Ingredients:
1) Mastici, 2oz: eusorbio, 1oz.' spico nardo, 5oz;
2) Herba cinque foglie


Ingredients:
Three heads of ruta, uno fico secco, una noce.


Ingredients:
Sterco di huomo aged 10-12 years. Wine. A little musk.


Ingredients:
Cipolla bianca, mele,  vinegar, suco di ruta,  suco di millefoglie equal parts;  Misce.(?)


Method:
Put the walnuts in the vinegar for  8 days, remove and batter, put in a bozza, distil the water.


Ingredients:
1 oz. Aloe epatico, 1/2 oz of Mirra, 1/2 oz zaffrano. 1/2 oz diagridio, 1/2 oz of Canfora.

Method:
Pulverize together and sieve the Aloe and myrrh, pulverize the zaffrano and dilute with white wine, like a sauce, add the powders and mix. You can add the diagridio and canfora if desired to make it stronger.


Ingredients:
fiori di noci, seccati al'ombra. Noci, Aceto forte

Method:
Chop the walnuts finely, put in the vinegar for three days. Remove and mix with the flowers and distil in a glass still, or glazed earthenware pot. Keep the liquid safe.


Recipe Name:
For killing the carbuncles, Languinaia, and every other pestilential pustule.

Method:
Crushed and sieved salt, mix it with the egg.


Ingredients:
1) Reupontico fresco, radiche di gramigna, radiche di tormentilla, Dittamo bianco, 2 oz.

Method:
Pulverise ingredients at 1 and place in a flask covered with well, river, or fountain water, about 1/2 palm high , boil until reduced by a third. Strain.


Ingredients:
1) Gentiana, zedoaria, Radiche di tormentilla 2 oz, sandali rossi, Dittami albi recentis, Corno di cervo bruciato, Perle bianche, bolo armeno, Astrologia rotondo, all 1 oz:  camphorae, onc. ? Media, 2 oz zuccari albi.2) Acqua di Endivia, or acetosa, 4 oz of one of these waters (unclear). 3) A walnut sized amount of Theriac very fine

Method:
Take ingredients at 1 and make a fine powder. Mix with the waters at 2,


Ingredients:
1/2 oz. Laudani, Storacis liquido; 1 oz, Diambra ottavo mezzo; muschio, idem; canfora 2 grains; Garofoli, 1/2 a mezz'ottavo; noce muscata, mezo ottavo. Macis, mezo ottavo; Rose damaschine, 15 grains (uno scrupolo): Cannella ottavo mezzo; spico nardo, mezzo ottavo;  Legno Aloe,  4 grains; Calamo aromatico, size of a bean; Ambra fina, 4 grains;  mirra as much as a bean.

Method:
Crush the laudanam with a hot pestle, then the other ingredients, alone, then mix adding the liquid storace and acqua rosa, then make the balls.


Ingredients:
Acqua di saponarsi, cioe, capitello,*  4oz. Legno di salice, or fave. Calce viva, at your discretion. 1/2 oz of songia di porco non salata. Cantarelle, *1/2 drm; Miele.

Method:
Take the acque di saponarsi and boil till it becomes an ointment, then take the willow wood or bean wood, and burn it to make charcoal, put in vinegar and dry well, crush and sieve. Add the Calce viva and mix with the acqua di sapone, take the burnt bean powder and mix the pork lard with everything. Add the cantarelle, mix, make an ointment which is a little firm, add some honey and leave in a sealed jar and add oil if wished.


Ingredients:
Oglio antico, as much as you have. 50-100 scorpions , as many as you have. (2) Reubarbaro, 2 oz, lioncorno**, 2 oz, thiriac, 1 oz, acqua vite, 3 oz.

Method:
Boil the oil for an hour, and add the scorpions, 100 for every lb. Of oil, and put in a carafe, which you put in a cauldron of water without a lid, until reduced by a third. Then take out the scorpions, sieve through canevaccio. Then add ingredients at 2) .
 put in another sealed vase leaving for two or three months in the sun. Put on hot embers every few days  if it is winter.


Ingredients:
Aloe epatico, or suco trino, cannella fina, mirra. 3 dramms each. Garofoli, macis, legno aloe, mastice, bolo armeno, 1/2 dram each

Method:
Crush in a mortar, and mix, keep in a closed box.


Recipe Name:
Last remedy for those afflicted by plague.

Ingredients:
Semenza, o granelli d'edera arborea-the sort which climbs trees or walls, not which covers the ground. Must be colleced when mature, from north facing part of the plant.

Method:
Dry the ivy seeds in the shade, keep in a wooden box as something precious.


Recipe Name:
For healing plague, removing poison from anguinaia, or carbone, o antrace, or whatever the growth.

Method:
Pluck its rear-end, and put that part on the afflicted area.  The chicken will have sucked out most of the poison, and will die.  Repeat with two or three chickens.


Recipe Name:
Advice for protecting onself from the plague in dangerous times.

Ingredients:
Salve: (1) aceto rosato, canfora, acqua rosa, legno aloe, xilobaslsmo, cannella. (a little of each)


Recipe Name:
For preparing bitters of lemons, a plague protection, to use as described in 107.

Ingredients:
Suco del cedro, schiumato di mele, 2 oz for every pound of juice, zucchero, cannella (a little of each,)

Method:
Squeeze the lemon juice as much as desired, and put in a  glazed earthenware pot, adding the apple pulp, sugar and cinnamon and boil a little.


Ingredients:
Frutti delle noci verdi. Zucchero.  2) tartaro crudo, (also called rasina, o greppola di botti)

Method:
Gather the green walnuts in May, crush in a stone mortar with a wooden pestle, and put in a glass jar with a still, and distil water over a gentle heat. Put in a covered fiasco, with 1 oz. of sugar and keep.


Recipe Name:
For those overheated and cold, those who have had too much intercourse with women.

Ingredients:
Mele.  Malvagia, guarnaccio, vin greco or other good wine. 1/2 glass of suco di bettonica, equal parts of latte di donna o capra, 2-3 oz of grasso di capone o gallina;  1oz of olio di pignuoli o olio di amandole dolci. Polvere di cannella and zucchero a vostro piacere.


Recipe Name:
For leprosy,  or those whose faces are 'infocato',  covered with blisters, or ugly through liver and stomach conditions.

Ingredients:
Legno di frassino verde. purple violet water.

Implements:
Two basins, one slightly smaller than the other with a perforated base. Charcoal/coal for a fire.

Method:
Chop the wood and put in a pot with a perforated base. Take another post, slightly bigger, so the first can fit inside. Put it somewhere, in earth or sand, with the other basin as a lid, with the wood inside, and with pezze impastate with glue from flour (colla di farina) seal the joins well. Leave it so the top pot is protruding from the ground, where you can make a fire around it, and close with a lid, an iron pan, clay etc, then put coals around and on top on it, light the fire and leave for 2-3 hours. Leave to cool. When you open it you will find the water and oil of the wood, which must be conserved in a flask and sealed. To use, take four parts of this water, to one part of the violet water.


Ingredients:
Sterco di bove o vacca fresco. Buon vino.

Method:
Put the excrement in a bowl with the wine and boil till it thickens.


Ingredients:
Take erba Iva, consolida minore, Tasso barbasso.


Recipe Name:
to prevent drunkeness in those who drink.

Ingredients:
2 or 3  ossa di persiche, amandole amare, olio d'oliva, o di amandole dolci, succo di cavoli or verze (?) zucchero.


Recipe Name:
For a bad bang on a limb which is not however broken.


Ingredients:
Anime o semenza di mellone, o monde o con la scorza. Unguento di rosa.

Method:
Crush well in a stone mortar making a clear water. Pass through a strainer and you will have a liquor like milk.


Method:
Break the vessiche, extracting the liquid within, and strain. Put in a glass jar or glazed earthenware pot and boil slowly until it thickens like termentina. Keep it safe.


Recipe Name:
Remedy for Rotting bones, ulcerated  skin.

Ingredients:
1/2 lb zolfo citrino o gaillo. 1/2 lb. Tartaro o greppola di vino, calcinato in polvere. Olio. Acqua rosata, erba celidona pesta.

Method:
Put the sulpher in an earthenware pot and melt over slow flame, then add the tartar and keep stirring, and let it cool. Then chop and put in a stone mortar, or flat stone and it will turn to water or oil.


Ingredients:
(1)  1/2oz. Ambracane,/Ambra balena/ ambra bigia odorata, as used in perfumes, finely chopped. 8 oz storace calamita, fatty or gummy, finely chopped. 2 lb. Acqua rosa, 2 lb oglio di rose damashine. 6 garofoli crushed. 1/8th oz. fine cannella. Musco , zibetto,

Method:
Put the ingredients into a carafe with the two  acque, and close with wax and cloth above, put under hot dung for eight days. Remove and boil in a pignatta vetriata, for two hours. Cool. Using a silver or gold spoon, or piece of glass, collect the oil which has collected on top, keep in ampoules or small glass jars, adding the musk and zibetto, keeping in the sun for a few days. Well sealed with wax and parchment.


Comments:
What purfumiers call 'Ben' are  almonds or nocelle, called Mirobalamon by the Greeks and Romans, the Arabs, Been, and most spetiali (having used translations from the Arabic) call it Been/Ben. Oil can be removed from these nuts. It is so useful to perfumiers  because this oil has no scent and it lasts a long time without going rancid. So it can be used to distemperare il musco, and l'ambra, to perfume gloves. The drawback is that the powder mixes with the oil, and the scent is less intense and penetrating. To recipe above makes it perfectly. It can be used as it is, or to perfume gloves or other things.

Method:
Clean the Ben nuts, cut them in 4, put on a sieve, take the musk, ambra, zibetto in una 'cazzoletta da profumieri' and put some drops of clean water on it, stemperatele with acqua rosa, put the calzoletta on the flame to burn, and it will perfume the room. Then collect the oil.


Ingredients:
12 libri acqua rosa damaschina, acqua di lavanda , garofali, e cinamono eletto,  (Each 1 dram) Macis grosso, cardamomo, musco, ambra, ana scrupolo  mezo: scorze di cetro secche, sandali citrini, ireos eletto, ana dram. Meza, bengoio, storace calamita, ana scropulo uno.

Method:
Mix everything 'secondo l'arte'  and in a sealed glass jar, leave it for 15 minuites, then use bagno maria to distil, and the water which is produced put in a well-sealed ampoule, place in the sun for another 15 days then use, or keep.


Ingredients:
Foglie di rose Damaschine, foglie di garofali, tutte fresche, both 1 lb. Fiori di rosmarino, fiori di lavanda, fiori di gelsomino, maggiorana, serpillo, satureggia, all 3 oz. Scorze di cetro secche, 1 oz;. Cinamomo, bengoio, storace calamita, 2 drams each. Noci muscate, macaleb, both 1 dramm. Musco, one scropulo.

Method:
Put everything in a glazed earthenwar jar , crush the herbs roughly, and the spices finely, leave in the sun for two days. Distil with Bagno Maria , add the musk, leave for 20, 30 days in a sealed glass ampoule . Then Use.


Ingredients:
Acqua di rose damaschine, 6 lbs. Vino malvatico one glass. Foglie di rose damaschine fresche, 3 lbs. Fiori di lavanda, fiori di spico, verdi, al 4 oz. Fiori di matre siva, fiori de gelsomino, fiori di olivella, all 1 and 1/2 lbs. Fiori di naranchi secchi, 3 oz, scorze di cetro secche, 4 drm.garofali drammi 1 and 1/2, cinamomo, irreos eletto, storace calamata, bengioi, all 2 scrupoli. Noci moscate, scrup. 1.

Method:
All these spices are pulverised, put in a sealed carafe for 10 days. Then distil with bagno maria and to the water which is produced add musk, amber 1 1/2 scrupoli. Keep in the sun to conserve.


Ingredients:
1) Pulverised Garofali, 2 drms. Polvere di sandali citrini, e macalep, both scup. 1 in 10 lbs. of acqua rosa damaschina, acqua di solfanella, 4 lbs. acqua di lavanda 1 lb.. (2) Garofoli, cinamomo, bengoio, storace calamita, 1 1/2 drms.

Method:
Leave together for 4 days. Distil in a glass bell jar. Then add the ingredients in powder at (2) Then distil in bagno maria add 1/2 oz of musk and amber and keep in  well sealed glass jar.


Ingredients:
4 lbs. Acqua rosa damaschina. Acqua di lavanda, acqua di spico, all 3 oz. Acqua di fior di limoni, acqua di fiori di melangoli, o naranci, acqua di fiori di mortella, fiori di gelsomini, e maggiorana 1/2 lb. As much of each. Bengioi, storace calamita, both 1 oz. Musco, 1/2 scrup.

Comments:
The quantities are not clear. There is some confusion in the recipe.

Method:
Mix together and put in a sealed bottle for 6 days. Use bagno maria to distil, and put in a glass jar for 2 weeks in the sun.


Ingredients:
Fiori di rosmarino verde, 2 lbs. Ambra, 1 scrup. 3 lbs. Acqua lansa.

Method:
Put in a well sealed vase for 10 days. Then use bagno Maria to distil, and conserve in glass jar.


Ingredients:
Acqua lansa 4 lbs. Acqua rosa damaschina, 2 lbs. 1/2 scrup. Ambracane in a glass ampolla.

Method:
Mix everything well , close, leave in the sun for one month.


Ingredients:
4 lbs. Acqua rosa damaschina, 6 oz acqua di lavanda, fiori di gelsomini, 3lbs. 1 scrup. Musco fino.

Method:
As above, put in covered glass jar for  10 days. Use bagno maria to distil, until all the water has come out. Keep in a glass ampoule.


Ingredients:
Scorze di naranci, cetri verdi, 1/2 oz each,garofoli, scrup 1, fior di spica (recently cultivated) 6oz; 6 lbs. Acqua rosa damaschina.

Method:
Mix, leave for as long and distil using bagno maria  and conserve.


Ingredients:
Foglie delle rose damaschine, 2 lbs. Macaleb, 1/2 drm. 1/2 scrup of ambracane perfetto.

Method:
Crush, put over hot ashes for two or three days. But before this, keep it in 10 lbs. Of acqua rosa damaschina for 10 days, distil with bagno maria, and keep 2 weeks in the sun.


Ingredients:
1 lb. Amandole dolci, cleaned. Fiori di melangoli o naranci as much as you wish. 'Aquanto' zibetto, musco, bengioi.

Method:
Divide in three parts, put on a clean linen cloth. One part put in a sieve. Then on this put half of the almonds, spread out, cover with the flowers,  and repeat, so the almonds are amongst the flowers in the sieve. Leave for 6 days, renewing the fowers, then crush the almonds,  and put a piece of white cloth  in the press and crush well and a shining oil will be produced. Add zibetto, musco, bengioi, leave in a well closed jar in the sun for 8 days.


Ingredients:
Amandole dolci ben piste e monde, fiori di gelsomini, as you like,

Comments:
This oil can be used for many things, and this method can be used for fiori di garofali and other flowers.

Method:
Put layer upon layer, leave in a humid place for 10 days, then remove, with the press squeeze out the oil.


Ingredients:
The best noci muscate, according to the quality of oil you want.
Vino Malvagia. Acqua rosa

Method:
Chop finely and cover with malvagia leave for three days. Remove and leave to dry for two days in a place where they will not get dirty. Sprinkle with acqua rosa, heat in the oven and then squeeze in a press. Keep the oil in a clean jar.


Ingredients:
6 oz. Of Pulverised bengioi, oil of tartaro, acqua rosa, both 1lb.

Method:
Leave for a day to dissolve, then distil "a canna chiusa" in a still. Take great care of it.
"And than with a close pipe ye shall distill it thorolwe a limbecke")(Trans. From ATS


