Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Introduction; 1 Uroscopy in Everyday Life; Lay Experience; Consultation by Letter; Uroscopy and Lay Medical Culture in the Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies; Uroscopy in Learned Medical Practice; Non-Academic Uroscopists; 2 The Foundations of Uroscopy; Consistency; Colors; Contents; Practical Guidelines; Diagnosis and Prognosis; Learning Uroscopy; Case Histories; Uroscopy and Pulse Diagnosis; Paracelsian Uroscopy; 3 Uroscopy and Popular Culture; Practical Advantages; Diagnosing Pregnancy; Making Sense of the Body; Uroscopy as Ritual
Uroscopy and Witchcraft4 Revealing Images: Uroscopy in Early Modern Genre Painting; The Doctor's Visit; The Image of the Uroscopist in Genre Painting; The Uroscopist as a Truth-Seeker; The Secrets of Women; 5 The Gradual Decline of Uroscopy; Theoretical Contradictions; Medical Authority in Jeopardy; Attempting Modernization; Enlightenment and Propaganda; Uroscopy and the Anatomical Revolution; Physicians on the Health Market; Epilogue Uroscopy and the Disappearance of the Sick Man; Sources; Index
