Turning Urine Into Whiskey

Hey, it wasn't my idea, it was THIS GUY'S.

Yeah, I don't know what to do with that information either.

Camel Pee. Yes, that's correct.

Rakuda no zu

• It is well known to scholars of Dutch knowledge that processed urine of a camel is a miracle medicine to cure a person in critical condition. If a child puts this picture up and always takes a look at it, it will help improve the condition of rashes and smallpox, and an evil being will disappear from the child's mind. Thunder monsters are so fearful of camels that a thunder will never hit where a camel is present. Therefore, the Dutch use a picture of a camel as a charm to protect them from thunders.

Stolen in its entirety from HERE

Taking Care of Medieval Business

MEDIEVAL TOILETS

or ‘pissyngholes’

And a picture of a guy trying to relieve himself and ending up in the Thames

Color and Urine

The wheel consisted of 20 colours ranging from ‘white as wellwater’ to ‘ruddy as pure intense gold’ and lastly ‘black as very dark horn.’

The Quotable Elias

For those who have never read Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process, it recounts a number of rules for proper behavior in society over time.

Here are a few examples:

Explaining Female Urination

Nature's Diapers

from Slate:

Moss Undies, Urine Tubes, and Other Folk Diapers

More on Pee!

See a translation of an early early modern urine wheel here.

"Hearing pregnancy described as cheese-making gave a familiar texture to the body's transformations."

Laura Gowing, Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 4.

And p. 23

Note the quote, "Jokes about incontinence focus not on those women most likely to have bladder problems--mothers and older women--but on adolescents, whose leakiness is sexier"

The Many Colors of Urine

The Basic Info

Modern Day Take on the Urine Wheel

Deep Thoughts by Robert Hooke

On looking at ice forming on urine under a microscope:

"Tafting several cleer pieces of this Ice, I could not find any Urinous tafte in them, but thofe few I tafted, feem'd as infipid as water."

"If you take any cleer and fmooth Glafs, and wetting all the infide of it with Urine, you expofe it to a very fharp freezing, you will find it cover'd with a very regular and curious figure."

Wonder how he got his results?