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Medieval Diagnosis Methods

This minature, illustrating On the Properties of Things (by Bartholomew the Englishman), decpits a physician examining a urinal at a patient's bedside.

Medieval doctors used the color of urine to diagnose an illness.

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Physician examining a urinal
Bibliothèque nationale de France
(BNF, FR 135 )
fol. 223