Diamandopoulos Athanasios A, Goudas Pavlos C
Renal Unit, "St. Andrew's" Hospital, Patras, Greece.
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2003 Jul;41(7):963-9. doi: 10.1515/CCLM.2003.147.
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.
人们普遍认为，实验室检查方法是在16世纪之后才发展起来的，在此之前，没有人试图通过检查取自人体的物质来进行诊断。在本文中，我们展示了从拜占庭法典中提取的数据，这些数据支持以下论点：出于诊断目的检查人类粪便的想法起源于罗马和拜占庭时代。缺乏技术手段并未阻碍医生形成一种“检查”思维，即仅依靠人类的感官，试图将粪便中的宏观发现与引发这些发现的病理生理机制联系起来。
