title: The Perì ouron treatise of Stephanus of Athens: Byzantine uroscopy of the 6th-7th centuries AD.
abstract: In the 6th-7th centuries AD, treatises on uroscopy were written by Theophilus, Magnus and the author of work transmitted through the ms. Parisinus gr. 2260, Stephanus of Athens. These works are the first to deal comprehensively with the problem of urines, uroscopy and their clinical role, so that a philological and content analysis and examination of their reciprocal relationships may clarify an important period in the birth and development of Byzantine uroscopy, which represents a significant epistemological passage in the medieval history of medicine (e.g. the positing of relationships between physical signs and systemic diseases).
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Angeletti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cavarra
mesh_terms: D018612:Byzantium; D006115:Greece; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D016482:Urinalysis / Q000266:history*