{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "historical text: contains the word \u201curinomancy\u201drational brain: This is the medieval word for the medical evaluation of urine,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/660768296802648064/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://keuhkopussirotta.tumblr.com/post/190675851658/historical-text-contains-the-word\" target=\"_blank\">keuhkopussirotta</a>:</p><blockquote><p class=\"npf_chat\" data-npf='{\"subtype\":\"chat\"}'><b>historical text:</b> contains the word \u201curinomancy\u201d</p><p class=\"npf_chat\" data-npf='{\"subtype\":\"chat\"}'><b>rational brain:</b> 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.</p><p class=\"npf_chat\" data-npf='{\"subtype\":\"chat\"}'><b>me, beating my fists on the table:</b> PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD PISS WIZARD</p></blockquote>\n\n\n<p>Seriously though, I&rsquo;ve heard arguments that the iconic image of a lab-coated &ldquo;scientist&rdquo; holding up and looking at a test tube represents, more than any approximation of remotely modern scientific activity, a modernization of &ldquo;gazing at a vial of piss in a sunbeam&rdquo; as historical iconography of Western learned men</p>"}