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[Prop]

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So I was doing a batch of questions, and stumbled over this very important information that I wanted to share with all of you:

"Greek doctors where notorious for tasting their patients urine to determine if they had diabetes".

Thank God for urine dipsticks, and good luck to all who didn't do step 1 yet (including me)!

 

[Uegis]

Ah, yes, the old urine sugar taste test made popular by the Greeks.

The Chinese also tested for diabetes. But instead of tasting the urine, they instructed patients to pee on the floor and then see if it attracted ants. I think the Chinese had a much better method of detecting diabetes, though ants on urine had a lower specificity than urine tasting, the sensitivity is higher.

 

[Law2Doc]

So I was doing a batch of questions, and stumbled over this very important information that I wanted to share with all of you:

"Greek doctors where notorious for tasting their patients urine to determine if they had diabetes".

Thank God for urine dipsticks, and good luck to all who didn't do step 1 yet (including me)!

Actually physicians used to test for diabetes this way far more recently than ancient greece.

 

[dianamd]

So I was doing a batch of questions, and stumbled over this very important information that I wanted to share with all of you:

"Greek doctors where notorious for tasting their patients urine to determine if they had diabetes".

Thank God for urine dipsticks, and good luck to all who didn't do step 1 yet (including me)!

Do I have to drink my own pee? No, but I do anyway, because it's sterile and I like the taste!
- Rip Torn, Dodgeball

Of course I don't promote this practice, which I do believe was done much more recently than ancient times; but hey, whatever floats your boat. And who's gonna tell a guy off while he's throwing wrenches at your head!

 

[ertugrul]

So I was doing a batch of questions, and stumbled over this very important information that I wanted to share with all of you:

"Greek doctors where notorious for tasting their patients urine to determine if they had diabetes".

Thank God for urine dipsticks, and good luck to all who didn't do step 1 yet (including me)!

Poor Greek doctors 🙂 BTW, do you know that in the first half of 20th century (last century), x-ray was used as a treatment modality for acne

 

[Prop]

Do I have to drink my own pee? No, but I do anyway, because it's sterile and I like the taste!
- Rip Torn, Dodgeball

Of course I don't promote this practice, which I do believe was done much more recently than ancient times; but hey, whatever floats your boat. And who's gonna tell a guy off while he's throwing wrenches at your head!

I absolutely LOVE Dodgeball. Rip Torn's my hero, and I want his scarf!

Actually I just read about another interesting thing: the anal reflex, where you gently touch the perianal area, and watch the outer sphincter contract...
Sorry 'bout getting anal🙄

 

[dianamd]

Actually I just read about another interesting thing: the anal reflex, where you gently touch the perianal area, and watch the outer sphincter contract...
Sorry 'bout getting anal🙄

Um, I think you've just taken our relationship too far, too fast.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

It also explains why the two forms of Diabetes are called as they are.

Diabetes = Passing through, a reference to the amazing amounts of urine diabetics produce.

Mellitus: Honey sweet. The urine of those with DM are loaded with sugar, thus it atstes sweet.

Insipidus: Insipid means without taste (i.e. an "insipid remark" is a one made without class, tact, or taste). So if you have DI, you're making a lot of urine without any sugar in it. Thus it's "tasteless".

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.