BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

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In a glass darkly
A doctor assesses a woman’s
urine in a 17th-century Dutch
painting. At that time, numerous
syndromes were believed to afflict
women, including melancholia,
chlorosis and ‘hysterical
suffocation’; uroscopy was one
diagnostic technique employed
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