APIS Translation (English)
"(Recto):;... or something has pierced him:;Place it upon bandages, or melt it by means of a dying fire, and apply it to the places which you are about to treat.;For those who are slow to heal in the case of every wound:;Calamine 1 oz.;Copper scales 1 oz.;Calcined copper 1 oz.;Vitriol 1 1/2 oz.;Rock alun 1 1/2 oz.;Together, sum 6 (oz.);Wax 1 lb.;Rhodinon 1/2 lb.;;Melt the wax, together with the rhodinon, and cast the dry (ingredients) upon them, (previously) pulverized, and apply it thus;;For bringing up a thorn:;Pulverize an earth-nut (?) with honey, and put it upon the place of the thorn. It will bring it up.;;For every hemorrhage or every wound:;Rock alun, pulverized and ........;Put it upon the wound and it will be removed at once.;;For every inflammation:;Take some milk of (a woman who has suffered) miscarriage.;Apply it. He will recover.;;(Verso):;A cathartic:;Take a dove, and fill its inside with salt and ........, together with ....... and a little pepper, then a quantity of wine and a little genuine oil, and a little water.;You cook it, and ...... Afterward drink a little stale wine.;In a little while you will purge.;;For diseased teeth:;There is a plant, the "dove-herb", (widely) scattered, which (in Greek) is (called) "peristereon." You place a chew upon the diseased tooth, and you place its juice upon that side for a while, and you rinse your mouth in a place to which no sun(-light) comes.;;(For) one whose bowels run:;A pomegranate.;You pour it(scontents out, and you mix it with the whites of eggs, and you rub it to a dough, and you cook it. Afterwards you peel .........."