Uroscopy in the Salerno School of Medicine.
Uroscopy was one of the basic diagnostic tests of the Salerno School of Medicine. The De Urinis of Magister Maurus was the work to which all urologic knowledge of the 12th and 13th centuries referred. His urologic doctrine was organized according to the theory of the 4 strata, and represented the extreme opposite from that of Cofone, according to whom the vital stream of urine expressed the depurative needs of the organs themselves. Salerno was also interesting in that it devoted as much attention to urology in women as in men, recognizing their fundamental role in the survival of the species. Unfortunately, much of the original work has become obscured by the many additions to the works of the masters and the spurious texts of lesser physicians.
Faculte di Lettere, University of Salerno, Department of Latinity and Middle Ages, Fisciano, Italy.
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