caa a22 4500 378879200 CHVBK 20180305123428.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030721xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/CCLM.2003.147 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/CCLM.2003.147 The Late Greco-Roman and Byzantine Contribution to the Evolution of Laboratory Examinations of Bodily Excrement. Part 1: Urine, Sperm, Menses and Stools [Elektronische Daten] [Athanasios A. Diamandopoulos, Pavlos C. Goudas] It is a common belief that laboratory investigation processes were developed after the 16th century and that before that time no attempts were made to attain a diagnosis by investigating material coming from the human body. In this paper we present data extracted from Byzantine codices that support the following thesis: The idea of examining human excrement for diagnostic purposes has its roots in the Roman and Byzantine eras. The lack of technological means was no obstacle for the doctor to create an "examinational” mind, i.e., to try to correlate the macroscopic findings in the excrement with the pathophysiological mechanism that induced it, using only the human senses. Copyright © 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Medical equipment & techniques nationallicence Medical diagnosis nationallicence Diseases & disorders nationallicence Diamandopoulos Athanasios A. aut Goudas Pavlos C. aut Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 41/7(2003-07-21), 963-969 1434-6621 41:7<963 2003 41 cclm https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2003.147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2003.147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Diamandopoulos Athanasios A. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goudas Pavlos C. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 41/7(2003-07-21), 963-969 1434-6621 41:7<963 2003 41 cclm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 378879200 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter