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The Water Doctor, by Edgar van Heemskirk, ca.1760-1770 (detail) To start our blogging journey into the world of 19th century folk medicine, we’re diving headlong into one of the less savoury alternative medical practices: water casting. As the name suggests, water casting (or uromantia, or uroscopy) involved the visual examination of a patient’s urine to…