Trotula

There were a number of women at the school, one being the 12th-century teacher and physician Trotula, a specialist in problems of childbirth and the diseases of women and children, as well as general medicine.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

There were a number of women at the school, one being the 12th-century teacher and physician Trotula, a specialist in problems of childbirth and the diseases of women and children, as well as general medicine.

Review of Mistress of the Art of Death, by Ariana Franklin 2007

Anyway, Trotula was an outstanding doctor and teacher and left a vast legacy of thought which was mined through to at least the seventeenth century.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006

Here is an edition of the Medieval Trotula which may or may not have been written by the real Trotula.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006

There were medical and surgical clinics, foundling hospitals, Sisters of Charity, men and women professors -- among the latter the famous Trotula -- and apothecaries.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

Contemporary with him was the female physician Trotula who worked also in the literary field, and who is said to have been the wife of the physician Joannes Platearius.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Greatest among them was Trotula, who lived in the eleventh century, and whose learning is reputed to have equalled that of the greatest physicians of the day.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Indeed, the uncertainty is even greater than this implies, for, according to some writers, ` ` Trotula '' is merely the title of a book.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

The truth of the matter may perhaps never be fully established, but this at least is certain -- the tradition in regard to Trotula could never have arisen had not women held a far different position among the Arabians of this period from that accorded them in contemporary Christendom.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Trotula was, according to this, the mother of the second Platearius, and the grandmother of the third, all of them distinguished members of the faculty at Salerno.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903