Pages on interpreting the colour of urine from Sloane 1313, a Latin and French medical miscellany, ca. 1500–1600.
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…
Pages on Interpreting the Colour of Urine
Date
ca. 1500–1600
From
BL Sloane 1313
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