Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 329.5

JAMES HART OF NORTHAMPTON (fl. 1633) The anatomie of vrines. : Containing the conuiction and condemnation of them. Or, the second part of our discourse of vrines. Detecting and vnfolding the manifold falshoods and abuses committed by the vulgar sort of practitioners, in the iudgement of diseases by the vrines onely: together with a narrow suruey of their substance, chiefe colours, and manifold contents, ioyning withall the right vse of vrines. ... Collected, as well out of the ancient Greeke, Latine, and Arabian authors, as out of our late famous physitians of seuerall nations: their authorities quoted and translated out of the originall tongues, together with some of the authors owne obseruations Printed by Richard Field for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south doore of Pauls 1625 1st 18 unnumbered pages, 127 pages, 1 unnumbered page 18 cm

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This extremely rare first edition of this important work on urines reveals the quackery involved with the medical diagnosis of urine as well as its genuine practical applications. The work is made up in part by an epitomized version of his own translation of a work by the great Dutch physician Pieter van Foreest, “The arraignment of urines” published in 1623. In Hart’s time the study of urines had become the cornerstone of a doctor’s visit, and many doctors claimed to be able to cure patients with a simple examination of their urine. The work is also very revealing of medical practice and, most especially, malpractice. It also reveals a great deal of the social attitudes of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean world.

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Cited references: NLM 17th 5277; Wellcome I 3060

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