An edition of nine of the most widely-disseminated texts in one of the most common genres of Middle English medical writing, uroscopy (the diagnosis and prognosis of disease based on examination of patients' urine).

M. Teresa Tavormina is Professor of English Emerita, Michigan State University. Her research interests include medieval and early modern medical texts, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, literature and medicine, and science fiction.

• List of Illustrations


• List of Figures


• Manuscript Sigla


• Abbreviations


• INTRODUCTION


• I: Scope of Edition


• II: Descriptions of Base Manuscripts


• III: Sources and General Content


• IV: Authors and Dates


• V: Textual Relationships


• VI: Language


• VII: Editorial Principles and Practice


• VIII: Bibliography


• EDITIONS


• The Vade Mecum Suite (Texts A-C)


• A.: Twenty Colours by Digestion Groups


• A.1: Unillustrated Text (Laud misc. 553)


• A.2: Ring of Urines (illustrated; Gonville and Caius 336/725)


• B: Urina Rufa (Laud misc. 553)


• C: Cleansing of Blood (Laud misc. 553)


• White-Red and White-Brown Token Lists (Texts D-F)


• D.: Urine White and Red (Sloane 3542)


• E: Urine White and Brown (Woman)


• E.1: The Earliest Surviving Middle English Uroscopy (CCCC 388)


• E.2: The Fullest Copy of the Text (BL Add. 4898)


• F: Urine White and Brown (Phlegm) (Wellcome 8004)


• Texts of Likely English Origin (Texts G-I)


• G: Rufus Subrufus (Gonville and Caius 336/725)


• H: Ten Cold Ten Hot (Sloane 213)


• I: The Dome of Uryne, Expanded Version (Sloane 374)


• COMMENTARIES


• Textual Commentary


• Medical Commentary


• APPENDICES


• 1: The Latin Vade Mecum Suite


• 2: Uroscopy Text from the Lettre d'Hippocrate


• 3: Rufus Subrufus: Variant Prologues and Remedies


• 4: The Dome of Uryne: English Versions of Latin Component Texts


• GLOSSARY


• INDEX OF PROPER NOUNS