Colouring in the Waters, or Shades of Urine…

Fully coloured as intended, and presumably under the direction of the author/publisher, the uroscopic woodcut reproduced right is found in an internally fine copy of Ulrich Pinder’s Epiphanie medicorum… printed in Nuremburg in 1506 and is intended to show different shades of urine.

In the centre of the woodcut a physician lectures a student on the art of uroscopic analysis and nex…

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