historical text: contains the word “urinomancy”rational brain: This is the medieval word for the medical evaluation of urine,...
historical text: contains the word “urinomancy”
rational brain: This is the medieval word for the medical evaluation of urine, which was an important source of information before the era of modern medical tests.
me, beating my fists on the table: PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD
Seriously though, I’ve heard arguments that the iconic image of a lab-coated “scientist” holding up and looking at a test tube represents, more than any approximation of remotely modern scientific activity, a modernization of “gazing at a vial of piss in a sunbeam” as historical iconography of Western learned men