Trotula
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Name (Latin)
Trotula
Other forms of name
Troctula
Trotta
Trotulla
De Ruggiero, Trotula
Ruggiero, Trotula de
Trocta
Trottola
Trota
Date of birth
1050
Date of death
1097
Associated Language
ita
Gender
female
Biographical or Historical Data
The preference of international scholarship may be turning to the form "Trocta, of Salerno" (cf. Bib. nat., v. 194)
Sources of Information
- Diseases of women, 1940.
- Io, Trotula, 2013.
- Trotula, 2020:t.p. (first women physician in Europe)
- Wikipedia (Italian)(Trotula de Ruggiero conosciuta anche con il nome di Trottula, Trotta, Trocta o Troctula -- è stata un medico italiano che, nell'XI secolo, operò nell'ambito della scuola medica salernitana)
- Author's Diseases of women, 1940.
Wikipedia description:
Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta), often called Trotula, was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. She was one of a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy at the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical schools to allow women in Europe.
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