The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine by David D. Gilmore

The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Middle Ages

David D. Gilmore with Monica H. Green (Translator)

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative medium-paced

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The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicin...

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