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Trota of Salerno

Type Figure Region Southern Italy Time c. 1090–1150 Also known as Trota of Salerno、Trocta、Trotula、特罗图拉

Trota of Salerno was a female physician of the Salerno medical school in southern Italy in the first half of the 12th century.…

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  1. c. 1090–1130Salerno · CampaniaTrota practiced medicine within the Salerno medical school environment, a city renowned for the convergence of Greek, Arabic, and Latin medicine. Archives and recipe collections mention a female practitioner named Trota/Trocta, indicating that women did indeed participate in medical practice at the time.
  2. 1130–1150Salerno · CampaniaThe surviving Practica secundum Trotam is regarded by modern scholars (such as Monica Green) as the text most likely written by her own hand. The three gynecological books of the Trotula, widely transcribed in the Middle Ages, are a compilatory tradition and should not be attributed wholesale to her name.

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