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Uroscopy   Listen
noun
Uroscopy  n.  The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Uroscopy" Quotes from Famous Books



... medically. A few names stand out prominently, but it is mainly a blank period in our records. Perhaps one man may be mentioned, as he had a great influence on later ages—Actuarius, who lived about 1300, and whose book on the urine laid the foundation of much of the popular uroscopy and water-casting that had such a vogue in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His work on the subject passed through a dozen Latin editions, but is best studied in Ideler's "Physici et medici Graeci minores" ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler

... distinguishing diseases, and have made this old German method of diagnosis a special study, yet we do not claim that all diseases can be unmistakably distinguished by such examinations alone. We take a conservative position and have no confidence in that class of ignorant fanatics whose pet hobby is "uroscopy." ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



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