Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine
Wednesday 19 April 2023 at 11:44
From cabbage green to course 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.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters