ABSTRACT
Many physicians continued to rely on uroscopy and quite frequently, it seems, they bowed to the patients' pressure and prescribed their medicines just based on their uroscopic judgment and without seeing the patient in person. Ordinary people held uroscopy in high esteem as the most important diagnostic tool for any kind of disease. Uroscopy was the most important diagnostic procedure in early modern medical practice and a procedure that could do perfectly well without the patient's narrative. In the eighteenth century, educated patients occasionally explained how important it was to them that the physician be familiar with their individual physical constitution. This chapter discusses the clinical medicine with its focus on organic changes inside the body and the new diagnostic approaches that came with it are thus said to have led to the "demise of the patient narrative", to the "disappearance of the sick-man from medical cosmology.
