Weird Physicians Series 24:

𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 a 𝐔𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐤, 𝟏𝟒𝟓𝟎-𝟏𝟒𝟕𝟎

from the So-Called "Bartholomäus", MS Palatinus Germanicus 644, f. 94r, Heidelberg University Library, Heidelberg.

#CSMBR #Avicenna #Uroscopy #Bartholomäus

Medieval Uroscopy and the Brain - CSMBR Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This article examines how Karolina Szula reconst...

FORMA FLUENS: Histories of the Microcosm
𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍: 𝐀 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞
Karolina Szula

Read it here: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../medieval...

#CSMBR #FormaFluens #MedicalHistory #Uroscopy #Brain #MiddleAges

Hidden Treasures 40:

Uroscopy Scene, Byzantium, 15th century

from Teophilus Protospatarius "De Urinis", MS 3632, f. 51r, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna.

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Uroscopy #ByzantineHistory #Hippocrates

Illustration of a man holding a jar of urine up to the light to inspect it

Physician performing #uroscopy from the manuscript Theoria Medicinae Naturalis dating from c.1630. It's attributed to Conrad Goltzing. But who was Goltzing? We know very little about the book, its author or how it came to be in our collection 🤔
#historyofmedicine #manuscripts #archives

Medical Humanism 13:

A Physician and his Patients, Paris 1415

from Bartolomeus Anglicus, "Livre des Propriétés des Choses", MS 251, f. 44r (detail), The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #BartolomeusAnglicus #Uroscopy

Medical Imagination Series 4:

Allegorical Uroscopy Scene, c. 1330

from the "Macclesfield Psalter", MS 1-2005, f. 98r, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Medieval #Allegory #Uroscopy #Illuminations #Animals

Epistemic Instruments 15:

Uroscopy Wheel, 14th century

from Isḥāq Ibn-Sulaimān al- Isrāʾīlī, "De urinis" ('kitāb al-baul'), Interpretatio latina Constantini Africani, MS Palatinus Latinus 1229, f. 5r, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), Vatican City.

#CSMBR #Uroscopy #arabicmedicine #history