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Article: Trotula, Women's Problems and The Professionalisation of Medicine in The Middle Ages.
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Trotula, Medieval Medical Doctor
By Anna Kathryn Lanier
First, my apologies for not posting a blog on Seduced by History since May. I have had a very difficult summer, which I won’t go into, but I look forward to posting my monthly blogs for now on…hopefully, life will cooperate with my plans!
Today, I am writing about Trotula, also known as Trotula di Ruggiero, Trotula Platearius, Trota and Trocta, a medieval female physician who wrote several influential works on medicine, the most prominent of which is known as Trotula Major, a book on Passionibus Mulierum Curandorum ( The Diseases of Women). Another work Practica Secundum Trotam was of general medicine. She also wrote about skin diseases and herbal treatments. All of these medical journals have been revised, revisited, referred to, plagiarized and used for more than five hundred years. But who is Trotula?
Born in the 11th century, Trotula attended and then practiced medicine at Salerno, Italy’s world-famous medic
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Trotula (c. s–)
Professor of medicine at the University of Salerno, Italy, who wrote several works on medicine, including a skrivelse on obstetrics and gynecology that was used in Europe for at least six centuries. Name variations: Troctula; Trotta; Dame Trot; Trotula Platearius. Pronunciation: TROH-too-lah. Born probably shortly before , in Salerno; died in ; said to have been married to Giovanni Plateario (a fellow physician);
children: said to have had two sons who became noted doctors.
Selected works:
De mulierum passionibus or dem passionibus mulierum (On the diseases of women); dem ornatu mulierum (On beautifying women); dem passionibus mulierum ante, in et brev partum (On the diseases of women before, during, and after birth).
The idea that the education of women in the mittpunkt Ages was abysmal fryst vatten so universally accepted that the realization that some women not only received university instruction, but also acted as university professors, comes as a surprise. Yet the