Medieval medicine

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.

The idea of Farts in a Jar. Physicians told their patients to fart in a jar or capture the farts of others and keep them sealed in the jar. Then whenever a sickness like the black plague came through town they were supposed to open the jars and take deep breaths.

Here’s a post for all of those days that you sit back and think, “The contemporary world is horrible.” Yes, our own age is plagued by climate change, violence, inequality, and a host of other problems, but at least it’s not plagued by an actual…

Medieval manuscripts were the imageboards of their day, full of murderous illustrations, however for some strange reason many people look as if they were bored

Vintage irrigating syringes. 8"-9" in length. Tarnished metal. Vintage throat and nasal atomizers. Glass bottles. Tarnished metal and plastic fittings. Rubber bulb. Vintage lab rack, well worn and very crusty.

In June, 1528, Anne Boleyn hovered on the brink of death from a mysterious ailment known as "the Sweat" or sudor Anglicus, the "English Sweat." Scholars still aren't sure what "The Sweat" was. The latest theory is that it was a hantavirus. It was a mainly English ailment, though it appeared sporadically in small areas on the Continent during some of its epidemics. Its first recorded appearance is around 1485, and the last outbreak occurred in 1551. After that, the disease seems to have…

During the Middle Ages, one of ways physicians would check on the health of their patients was to look at their urine.

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