Clarice di Durisio da Foggia was an Italian eye physician and surgeon from Foggia, recorded as active in the fifteenth century, with no birth or death dates known. She was educated at the University of Salerno and belonged to the small minority of women among the students of her time. She specialized in the diseases of the eye, and she was licensed to treat only female patients. Her entry is brief and rests on a few stated facts, and further reading on women healers of the period is found in Monica H. Green, Women's healthcare in the medieval West: texts and contexts (2000).
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was an Italian eye physician and surgeon from Foggia
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was an Italian eye physician and surgeon from Foggia
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She was educated at the University of Salerno and belonged to the minority of female students of her time period.
Specialist In: Ophthalmology, Biography
She specialized in the diseases of the eye
In Group: Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance, Lead paragraph
fl. 15th century
In Group: Pioneering Women and Minority Physicians, Biography [in-group]
belonged to the minority of female students of her time period
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