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MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20013729     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
A medieval English text on the theory and practice of uroscopic analysis is found in British Library, Sloane MS 280, and Cambridge, St. John's College MS B.16. The treatise, the title of which is given in the fuller and earlier copy in Sloane 280 as "Barton's Urines Which He Treated at Tilney," offers an unusual mix of practical diagnostic methodology focused mainly on uroscopy, and a conceptual framework for that methodology which begins with humoral physiological theory but continues with digressions on astronomy, the calendar, Aristotelian psychology, reproductive anatomy and physiology, embryology and ensoulment. This paper discusses the possible authorship and dating of the original text, the author's intellectual interests and habits, his approach to his vernacular audience, and the relation of the treatise to the Latin authorities on which it draws, particularly but not exclusively Isaac Israeli and Giles of Corbeil.
Authors:
M Teresa Tavormina
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of nephrology     Volume:  22 Suppl 14     ISSN:  1121-8428     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Nephrol.     Publication Date:    2009 Nov-Dec
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-12-16     Completed Date:  2010-04-22     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9012268     Medline TA:  J Nephrol     Country:  Italy    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  33-41     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. tavrmina@msu.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
England
History, Medieval
Humans
Manuscripts, Medical / history*
Nephrology / history*
Urinalysis / history*
Urine
Personal Name Subject
Personal Name Subject:
Giles of Corbeil

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