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History has a good way to tell us, not only where we have been but also where we are going, as William Osler [1] liked to quote the English churchman and historian Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) [2]:

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    Gunpowder to Teeth Whitener: The Science behind Historic Uses of Urine M Kumar - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonian. com), July–August. 2013 accession 3.1.2021

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/search/?q=Gunpowder%20to%20Teeth%20Whitener:%20The%20Science%20behind%20Historic%20Uses%20of%20Urine

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    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-urinating/

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Pambuccian, S.E. (2022). The History of Urinary Cytology: The Long and Winding Road to Paris 2.0. In: Wojcik, E.M., Kurtycz, D.F., Rosenthal, D.L. (eds) The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88686-8_13

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