Subtitle:
Multi-Sensory Diagnostics in Pre-Modern Medicine
Author(s):
Näther, Birgit
Year of publication:
2025
Available Date:
2025-07-18T06:21:00Z
Abstract:
Birgit Näther examines how historical medical diagnostics relied on multisensory methods—seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing—while medical terminology and instruments like uroscopy and the stethoscope shaped diagnostic practices and perceptions.
Part of Identifier:
e-ISSN (online): 2944-8506
Keywords:
Early Modern
Medicine
Senses
DDC-Classification:
900 Geschichte und Geografie
Publication Type:
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
URL of the Original Publication:
DOI of the Original Publication:
Journaltitle:
NEMoS - Network of Early Modern Senses
Editor:
Daniela Hacke, Luc Wodzicki (Hrsg.)
Department/institution:
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut / Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
Comments:
nemos (June 24, 2025). The ‘seeing ear’: multi-sensory diagnostics in pre-modern medicine. NEMoS. Retrieved July 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/14707
