Items for "sputum"

The late Greco-Roman and Byzantine contribution towards the evolution of laboratory examinations of bodily excrement. Part 2: sputum, vomit, blood, sweat, autopsies

Although the establishment of medical laboratory institutions was a continuous process that matured only after the 16th century, several attempts had already been made to attain a diagnosis by investigating bodily excrement...

Keywords: autopsies, Byzantine medicine, hematoscopy, human excrement, laboratory investigations, sputum, sweat, vomit