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Gentile da Foligno, 14th century Italian physician, examining a sample of urine, [1493]. Gentile (d1348) wrote a great many commentaries on earlier medical authorities, as well as original works, including at least one Consilium on the Black Death of 1348, produced at the request of the city and university of Perugia. He recognised the relation of the pulse to the characteristic of urine. From Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel. (Nuremberg, 1493).