Gentile da Foligno () examining a sample of urine. Gentile wrote a great many commentaries on earlier medical autorities, 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. From Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), Nuremberg, 1493. Woodcut

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