Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032098340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Michael Stolberg

Opis

Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Based on a wide range of textual and visual sources, such as autobiographies, court records, medical treatises and genre painting, this book offers the first comprehensive study

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Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

O autorze

Michael Stolberg is chair of the history of medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany.