Doctors Used to Taste Their Patients' Pee?? | Joe Rogan and Lindsey Fitzharris

Actually, the last thing I want to show you that I brought is this. So this is a urine wheel that would have dated to the medieval period. And so the idea was that the doctor could diagnose you according to the color of your urine. Spoiler alert, if your urine's black, you're probably in big trouble. You got robbed of. And they didn't just look at the color, they tasted the urine as well. Hilarious. So, and they could diagnose diabetes because someone with diabetes, their urine tastes sweet. So they were actually diagnosing diabetes. Oh, cow rice. So they were drinking pests. Yeah, there you go. That's the one we based it off. Yep. Oh my God. But my favorite part of the urine in the medieval period and doctors with urine, some practitioners would take the urine and put it into a divination bowl and they could tell your future. And I think they should bring that back. Like at the end of your checkup, not to be covered by insurance, but out of pocket. If they test your urine and you're totally dehydrated and there's blood in there, like, yeah, bro, you ain't going to make it. You don't even have to do the divination bowl. You don't have to do that. Well, it's weird that image in the whole circle, the center circle, like a guy is the doctor holding the flask? Yes. Is that the doctor? Yep. That would be the doctor holding the flask and actually... It's like a wine taster. He is like a wine taster. Like he's swishing it around. I did a whole, again, a YouTube video on this, which is why I have this stupid prop. And we cut through images. In that image of the doctor holding the flask was sort of the predominant image of a physician up into a certain period. Now it's sort of like the stethoscope is the object now that we associate with doctors. But the urine flask used to be it. That was it. Yeah, they were called this process. They were called the mask and a doctor's pole, a barber pole. And the plague mask. Oh my God. But they used to call them piss prophets because they tell your fortune using your urine. Oh my God. I think that is something we should bring back. I think you have the power to bring that back. Well, you know what? If there's tarot card readers, why not piss prophets? At least piss prophets are basing it on something. Throw your urine into that divination bowl. I know there's so many images of the doctor holding the flask. That is crazy. So obviously the color of your urine could be an indicator of health. It still is today. Oh yeah. And look at the guy. He's like, what do you think, doc? How am I doing? He looks like he's hurting. Very, very worried. There's gotta be some piss prophets in LA. Probably. They're gonna open up a store right now. Look at the band-aid around the guy's head. Like he's hurting. The guy's got a head injury and the doctor's checking his piss.