(13-02-2017, 10:34 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This "pfer" is something that does not sound good. There's the rub.
In German, pferd is horse. If the last sound were dropped as happens in speech with many words, "pfer" might be possible. Reitpferd is horseback riding. If that first letter is a Saxony "r" instead of a "p" (the Saxony and Anglo-Saxon "r" has a descender). Normally, I would consider that a stretch, but if you look at that lone shape to the top left of the marginalia on the page of the woman lying down with the swollen belly, that's an Anglo-Saxon "r" and "wenns" or "wens" happens to be the Anglo-Saxon word for swellings or tumors.
A major source of fistulas in the middle ages was saddle chafe, especially for men riding in heavy armor or those more lightly dressed who had to travel long distances.
So, this might be a long shot, but one possibility is that it's a prescription/healing charm for a goat-liver ointment/salve/tincture or other liquid to ease saddle sores.