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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

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Image of a sixteenth-century woodcut showing a doctor examining his patient. The patient is lying in an elaborately decorated four-poster bed, while the doctor takes his pulse; he does this by holding the patient’s wrist with his left hand while at the same time looking intently at a small phial of urine which he holds in his right hand. Gathered next to the doctor are three other men standing with folded arms, watching what is happening. On the left of the image is what looks like a cat which is walking across the tiled floor towards the bed.