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
Uroscopy Scene, Byzantium, 15th century
from Teophilus Protospatarius "De Urinis", MS 3632, f. 51r, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Uroscopy #ByzantineHistory #Hippocrates
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
Uroscopy Scene, Byzantium, 15th century
from Teophilus Protospatarius "De Urinis", MS 3632, f. 51r, Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Uroscopy #ByzantineHistory #Hippocrates
2/2 And sure enough, he sees a baby in her urine! One of the odder moments of Dutch uroscopy, from Godfried Schalcken.
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
2/2 And sure enough, he sees a baby in her urine! One of the odder moments of Dutch uroscopy, from Godfried Schalcken.
2/2 And sure enough, he sees a baby in her urine! One of the odder moments of Dutch uroscopy, from Godfried Schalcken.
September 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
2/2 And sure enough, he sees a baby in her urine! One of the odder moments of Dutch uroscopy, from Godfried Schalcken.
Uroscopy chart from Epiphanie medicorum, 1506, Wellcome Collection #medievalsky
December 9, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Uroscopy chart from Epiphanie medicorum, 1506, Wellcome Collection #medievalsky
Nail-biting suspense of uroscopy -- is our feather-hatted lady pregnant? Tense moment, from Egbert van Heemskerck. It's his day.
August 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Nail-biting suspense of uroscopy -- is our feather-hatted lady pregnant? Tense moment, from Egbert van Heemskerck. It's his day.
He is a learned doc with copy of Vesalius on his window-sill, but he still turns to good old uroscopy for the crucial question -- is the old woman's daughter pregnant, or not?
April 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
He is a learned doc with copy of Vesalius on his window-sill, but he still turns to good old uroscopy for the crucial question -- is the old woman's daughter pregnant, or not?
2/2 Diagnostics in the Dutch Golden Age, 1666: a little uroscopy, aka examining the piss. Tells all! By Jacob Toorenvliet, whose day is today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
2/2 Diagnostics in the Dutch Golden Age, 1666: a little uroscopy, aka examining the piss. Tells all! By Jacob Toorenvliet, whose day is today.
2/2 A little careful uroscopy will surely produce correct diagnosis for this lovely, satin-clad damsel in 1667. By Frans van Mieris.
April 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
2/2 A little careful uroscopy will surely produce correct diagnosis for this lovely, satin-clad damsel in 1667. By Frans van Mieris.
the piss jar that @halfmoonjoe.com chose to use is actually pretty similar to medieval urine flasks
June 17, 2026 at 6:23 AM
the piss jar that @halfmoonjoe.com chose to use is actually pretty similar to medieval urine flasks
2/2 Diagnostics in the Dutch Golden Age, 1666: a little uroscopy, aka examining the piss. Tells all! By Jacob Toorenvliet.
January 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
2/2 Diagnostics in the Dutch Golden Age, 1666: a little uroscopy, aka examining the piss. Tells all! By Jacob Toorenvliet.
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
June 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
2/2 A little careful uroscopy will surely produce the correct diagnosis for this lovely, satin-clad damsel in 1667. By Frans van Mieris.
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
2/2 A little careful uroscopy will surely produce the correct diagnosis for this lovely, satin-clad damsel in 1667. By Frans van Mieris.
Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
January 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
omw to get a uroscopy everyone pray for my peehole
August 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
omw to get a uroscopy everyone pray for my peehole
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 O 6, containing texts on uroscopy, poisons & their antidotes, the medicinal virtues of whiskey and these cool marginal drawings of fish:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
March 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 O 6, containing texts on uroscopy, poisons & their antidotes, the medicinal virtues of whiskey and these cool marginal drawings of fish:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2026 (brought to you by @siobhbar.bsky.social) is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 17, containing works on anatomy and uroscopy; medical aphorisms; and this charm for curing epilepsy: 📜📖
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
August 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2026 (brought to you by @siobhbar.bsky.social) is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 17, containing works on anatomy and uroscopy; medical aphorisms; and this charm for curing epilepsy: 📜📖
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
Have a look at this gorgeous collection of German medical and astrological texts. It includes many illustrations of the Zodiac, and medical practices including bloodletting and uroscopy (the precursor to modern urinology) (UPenn LJS 463) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/3zm4FHd
🔗: https://bit.ly/3zm4FHd
February 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Have a look at this gorgeous collection of German medical and astrological texts. It includes many illustrations of the Zodiac, and medical practices including bloodletting and uroscopy (the precursor to modern urinology) (UPenn LJS 463) #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/3zm4FHd
🔗: https://bit.ly/3zm4FHd
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
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
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...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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
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
we’re going to need to hear about the uroscopy results straight from RFK. I’m rooting for viridis but suspect rubicundus is more likely
I’m hoping that RFK Jr talked him into some really random shit, like having his bodily humours balanced
August 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
we’re going to need to hear about the uroscopy results straight from RFK. I’m rooting for viridis but suspect rubicundus is more likely
One way to put increasing conversion abuse.
"We boosted our health services with bloodletting, rusty saws & uroscopy, please ignore that the new sevices have massively higher fatality rates, thank you!"
"We boosted our health services with bloodletting, rusty saws & uroscopy, please ignore that the new sevices have massively higher fatality rates, thank you!"
July 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
One way to put increasing conversion abuse.
"We boosted our health services with bloodletting, rusty saws & uroscopy, please ignore that the new sevices have massively higher fatality rates, thank you!"
"We boosted our health services with bloodletting, rusty saws & uroscopy, please ignore that the new sevices have massively higher fatality rates, thank you!"
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
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
February 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
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
There were. It's wonderful...it's Hippocratic medicine, so it was happening for a few millennia.
This is a monkey doing uroscopy, which was apparently a reimbursed service in the Middle Ages:
This is a monkey doing uroscopy, which was apparently a reimbursed service in the Middle Ages:
February 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There were. It's wonderful...it's Hippocratic medicine, so it was happening for a few millennia.
This is a monkey doing uroscopy, which was apparently a reimbursed service in the Middle Ages:
This is a monkey doing uroscopy, which was apparently a reimbursed service in the Middle Ages:
his failure to mention this is insane because i have to stress that having a uroscopy is maybe the most painful thing i have ever been subjected to in my entire life and i had literally zero warning
August 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
his failure to mention this is insane because i have to stress that having a uroscopy is maybe the most painful thing i have ever been subjected to in my entire life and i had literally zero warning