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As the text explains, sometimes women "take in wind" into their uterus, "with the result that to certain people they look as if they were ruptured or suffering from intestinal pain." Trota was called in to treat a woman suffering from the condition. The text stressed that "Trota was called in as if she were a master."
The women of Salerno, also referred to as the ladies of Salerno and the Salernitan women (Latin: mulieres Salernitanae), were a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy, at the Schola Medica Salernitana, one of the first medical schools to allow women. A miniature depicting the Schola Medica Salernitana from a copy of Avicenna's ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Medieval physicians. ... Pages in category "Medieval women physicians" The following 28 pages are in this category ...
During this time, a few universities were beginning to train women as midwives, [2] but rhetoric against women healers was increasing. [1] The literature against women in medicine started in the 13th century, and the Early Modern period gave way to a widespread call for licensing and proper training for midwives, which was largely unavailable.
A text called Placides and Timeus attributed to "Trotula" a special authority both because of what she "felt in herself, since she was a woman", and because "all women revealed their inner thoughts more readily to her than to any man and told her their natures."
In the school, besides the teaching of medicine (in which women too were involved, as both teachers and students), there were courses of philosophy, theology, and law. The most famous female doctor and medical author at the school is Trota or Trotula de Ruggiero, who is accredited with several books on gynaecology and cosmetics, collectively ...
She was the second African woman to become a doctor and the first African woman to graduate from the University of Rhodesia Medical School in 1970. Rehana Kausar (b. mid-20th century) became the first woman doctor from Azad Kashmir to graduate from Medical School in Pakistan in 1971. Elwyn Chomba became the first female doctor in Zambia in 1973.
Medieval women physicians (1 C, 28 P) 0–9. 6th-century physicians (3 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Medieval physicians" This category contains only the following page.