The urine wheel and uroscopy

Josip007

"[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]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. Although mostly discredited today, doctors used to use a urine wheel to diagnose illnesses up until the middle of the 19th century.[/font]"
Article : http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/urine-wheel-and-uroscopy-your-wee-could-tell-medieval-doctor-009744

pedroeibar1

You taking the pi$$?;) That process up there with phrenology, the humours and a diagnosis of marthambles. There is a huge difference between urinalysis which is scientific and uroscopy, which is not, because it is visual, so subjective. If you want to start an early -vs- modern medicine thread why not start one with your comments for e.g. on the differences between variolation and vaccination and the development of preventive medicine for smallpox?