Piss Prophets and Fecal Fortune Tellers

To kick off the 2023 spoopky season, we discuss another colorful time in human history and medicine in which we stooped to the point of handling and... consuming urine to tell someone's fortune... I mean diagnose their health. Sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference.

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Music: 

Intro and Outro:
"Barroom Ballet" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Transition and Horror Music:
"Frightmare" by Jimena Contreras
https://www.youtube.com/c/JimenaContreras

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Sources:

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7847456/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32491617/#:~:text=Theophilus%20Protospatharius%2C%20a%20seventh%2Dcentury,proteinuria%20as%20a%20disease%20state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uroscopy

https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/2019/04/uromancy-lindsey-fitzharris/