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The Urine Wheel and Uroscopy: What Your Wee Could Tell a Medieval Doctor

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Village Doctor Looking at a Urine Sample (1640s) by David Teniers the Younger.

In modern medicine, urine samples are routinely examined in laboratories to obtain clinical information about a patient. This procedure, known as urinalysis, developed from an older medical process called uroscopy.


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