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The frontispiece features the commentator, translator, and philologist Petrus de Montagnana. He is portrayed as a prototypical Humanist, a man of books, rather than as a physician. Let’s note, however, that the books in his surroundings are medical and include a dozen captioned volumes calling forth the physician’s great authorities.
In the second and more recognizable reference to medicine which may remind us of today’s doctor’s office: two persons have been waiting to exhaustion. They, and the boy who has just entered, may not even be patients but messengers who have brought, in the prominently displayed baskets, the urines of others for examination.
Different description than I assumed but how can it be said that the content in basket is urine?
Thanks for your question. This is a well researched early medical book, Fasciculus Medicinae, with Latin text in addition to the illustrations. You can learn more about the book this illustration comes from here: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/10/11/fifteenth-century-books-from-the-cradle-of-printing-in-the-west/.