Did you know.......
Did you know.......Medieval doctors, tasted their patients urine!
Medieval doctors took urine analysis to a whole different level, when they started tasting urine to diagnose their patients.
17th century English physician Thomas Willis, noted that the urine of a diabetic patient tasted “wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”
It was Willis who coined the term ‘mellitus’ (meaning ‘sweetened with honey’) in diabetes mellitus.
This chart contained 20 possible colors of urine ranging from “white as wellwater,” to “rudy as pure intense gold,” and “black as very dark horn.”
The taste and smell of a patient’s urine, was affected by the illness they were suffering from, and generally corresponded with specific colors on the chart.
It was said that King George III of England, had purple urine.It is believed he suffered from porphyria, a disorder caused by an over-accumulation of porphyrin which helps hemoglobin, the protein that moves oxygen throughout the body.
Other research suggests that his medical records show that the King was given medicine based on Gentian.
This plant, with its deep blue flowers, is still used today as a mild tonic, but may turn the urine blue.
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Medieval Urine Wheel.
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