Thomas Brian
English physician; author of The Pisse-Prophet (1637). One source places his practice at Colchester.
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- IV. The Flask
What the film says
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Published The Pisse-Prophet in 1637 and judged that no disease can be known from urine alone.
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Confessed that he had played the pisse-prophet himself, questioning the messenger and pretending to read the glass.