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

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-96

  Diamandopoulos, A Athanasios ^a   Goudas, Pavlos C ^a  

^a St Andrew's Regional Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autopsies; Byzantine medicine; Hematoscopy; Human excrement; Laboratory investigations; Sputum; Sweat; Vomit

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; GREECE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; JEW; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE EAST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SWEAT TEST; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

AUTOPSY; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BODILY SECRETIONS; BYZANTIUM; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GREEK WORLD; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; PHYSICIANS; ROMAN WORLD; SPUTUM; SWEAT; VOMITING;

EID: 14244256328     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.014     Document Type: Article

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