The Trotula : a medieval compendium of women's medicine
"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 medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of Naples, then the leading center of medical learning in Europe. Yet as Monica H. Green reveals in her introduction to this first edition of the Latin text since the sixteenth century, and the first English translation of the book ever based upon a medieval form of the text, the Trotula is not a single treatise but an ensemble of three independent works, each by a different author
Print Book, English, 2001
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001
Early works
xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
9780812235890, 0812235894
45102919
Introduction
Salerno
Women's medicine
The fate of the Trotula
Notes on this edition and translation
Edition and translation of the standardized Trotula ensemble
Liber de Sinthomatibus Mulierum (Book on the conditions of women)
De Curis Mulierum (On treatments for women)
De Ornatu Mulierum (On women's cosmetics)
Appendix: Compound medicines employed in the Trotula ensemble
Latin text with English parallel translation and introductory material