Woodcut uroscopy chart pairing urine flasks with colour descriptions, printed at the private press of Ulrich Pinder, physician to the City of Nuremberg, 1506.
Featured on PDR in the essay Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine
From cabbage green to coarse meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body's liquid excretions.
Also appearing in the essay…
Uroscopy Chart Pairing Urine Flasks with Colour Descriptions
Date
1506
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