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Urine Flavour Wheels
By Nicola | Published: October 19, 2012
Over at Oscillator, synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis (who will be speaking at Foodprint LA, and whom I had the pleasure of interviewing yesterday — of which, more in due course!) has posted this gorgeous urine wheel, designed to help medical practitioners create a sensory profile of a patient’s pee.
The colour, smell, and even taste of urine was used to both identify particular illnesses and provide patient prognoses, from Hippocrates to the Victorian era. The practice, called uroscopy or uromancy, was, according to the Doctor’s Review, “once the number-one way to diagnose disease — and predict the future.
Sir Henry Wellcome’s 1911 overview of the history of uroscopy, The Evolution and Development of Urine Analysis, assembles a variety of urine flavour and fragrance notes from throughout history. From “antient Sanskrit works of medicine,” he culls a list of morbid urine varieties that include:
Iksumeha, cane-sugar juice urine.
The urine is very sweet, cold, sticky, opaque, like the juice of cane sugar.
Ksuermeha, potash urine.
The urine has the taste, smell, touch and colour of potash.
Sonitameha, urine containing blood.
The urine is of bad odor, hot, and tastes of salt, like blood.
Hastimeha, elephant urine.
The patient continuously passes turbid urine like a mad elephant.
Madhumeha, honey urine.
The urine is astringent, sweet, white and sharp.
The last is known today as the urine of diabetes mellitus. English physician Thomas Willis noted the same relationship in 1674, reporting that diabetic piss tastes “wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”
By Nicola | Published: October 19, 2012
Over at Oscillator, synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis (who will be speaking at Foodprint LA, and whom I had the pleasure of interviewing yesterday — of which, more in due course!) has posted this gorgeous urine wheel, designed to help medical practitioners create a sensory profile of a patient’s pee.
The colour, smell, and even taste of urine was used to both identify particular illnesses and provide patient prognoses, from Hippocrates to the Victorian era. The practice, called uroscopy or uromancy, was, according to the Doctor’s Review, “once the number-one way to diagnose disease — and predict the future.
Sir Henry Wellcome’s 1911 overview of the history of uroscopy, The Evolution and Development of Urine Analysis, assembles a variety of urine flavour and fragrance notes from throughout history. From “antient Sanskrit works of medicine,” he culls a list of morbid urine varieties that include:
Iksumeha, cane-sugar juice urine.
The urine is very sweet, cold, sticky, opaque, like the juice of cane sugar.
Ksuermeha, potash urine.
The urine has the taste, smell, touch and colour of potash.
Sonitameha, urine containing blood.
The urine is of bad odor, hot, and tastes of salt, like blood.
Hastimeha, elephant urine.
The patient continuously passes turbid urine like a mad elephant.
Madhumeha, honey urine.
The urine is astringent, sweet, white and sharp.
The last is known today as the urine of diabetes mellitus. English physician Thomas Willis noted the same relationship in 1674, reporting that diabetic piss tastes “wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”
www.ediblegeography.com/urine-flavour-wheels/
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