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Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance

The great physicians of the premodern world, whose teaching founded the medical traditions of Greece, the Islamic world, India, China, Egypt and Salerno: Hippocrates, Ibn Sina, Zhang Zhongjing, Peseshet, Vagbhata, Charaka, Trotula of Salerno and Fracastoro. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a physician who lived before about 1600. It excludes physicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance
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Nicolaes Tulp (Wikipedia)
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From 1611 to 1614 he studied medicine in Leiden and returned to Amsterdam where he became a well-respected doctor.
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Leonhart Fuchs (Wikipedia)
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He then began to study medicine, obtaining his Medicinae Doctor on 1 March 1524.
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Valerius Cordus (Wikipedia)
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authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps
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Guy de Chauliac (Wikipedia)
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widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe
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Jan Marek Marci (Wikipedia)
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He was the rector of the University of Prague and official medical doctor to the Holy Roman Emperors
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Leonhard Rauwolf (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician, botanist, and traveller
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Daniel Sennert (Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography)
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He originally intended to become a teacher, but studied medicine instead for three years at the universities of Leipzig, Jena, and Frankfurt an der Oder.
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Symphorien Champier (Wikipedia)
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A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine
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Joachim Camerarius the Younger (Wikipedia)
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before taking his doctorate at the University of Bologna in 1562
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Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (Wikipedia)
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was a physician, philosopher, historian, Arabic grammarian and traveller
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Charles Patin (Wikipedia)
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was a French physician and numismatist
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Abascantus (Wikipedia)
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was a physician of Lugdunum
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Martin Ruland the Younger (source article)
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Martin Ruland the Younger (11 November 1569-23 April 1611), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician and alchemist.
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Martin Ruland the Elder (source article)
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Martin Ruland the Elder (1532, in Freising, 3 February 1602), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician, alchemist and classical philologist.
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Steinhöwel, Heinrich (Allgemeine und Neue Deutsche Biographie)
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Stadtarzt nach Ulm
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Tobias Cohn (source article)
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was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Georg Pictorius (Wikipedia)
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was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance
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Vagbhata (Wikipedia)
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one of the most influential authors in the classical Ayurvedic tradition
Gilles de Corbeil (source article)
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was a French royal physician, teacher, and poet
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Johannes Engel (source article)
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He practiced medicine in Vienna, and published numerous almanachs, planetary tables and calendars.
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Achilles Gasser (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician and astrologer
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Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus (Wikipedia)
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was a Sephardic Jewish Marrano or converso physician from Lisbon
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Theodericus Ulsenius (Wikipedia)
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was a Renaissance humanist and physician
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Andreas Aurifaber (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician of some repute
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Laurent Joubert (source article)
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Joubert succeeded him as chancellor.
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Jabril ibn Bukhtishu (source article)
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was an influential 8th-9th century physician
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Théophraste Renaudot (Wikipedia)
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Renaudot received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1606
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Thomas Erastus (Wikipedia)
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professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg
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Shapur ibn Sahl (Wikipedia)
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9th-century Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur
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Mnesitheus (Wikipedia)
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was a Greek physician, who probably lived in the 4th century BC
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Jacques Coitier (Wikipedia)
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He was chief physician to King Louis XI and president of the Chambre des comptes.
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Pietro Andrea Mattioli (source article)
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he received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523
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Gemma Frisius (source article)
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Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker
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Taddeo Alderotti (source article)
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was an Italian doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Bologna, who made important contributions to the renaissance of learned medicine in Europe during the High Middle Ages
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Amatus Lusitanus (Wikipedia)
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was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century
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Emmanuel Stupanus (source article)
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was a Swiss physician and professor in Basel
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Anthimus (physician) (Wikipedia)
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Byzantine Greek physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great
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Richard Morton (physician) (source article)
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was an English physician who was the first to state that tubercles were always present
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Rudolph Goclenius the Younger (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician and professor at Philipps University of Marburg
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Moses ibn Tibbon (Wikipedia)
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Jewish physician, author and translator in Provence
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Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi (Wikipedia)
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was an eleventh-century physician from Khorasan
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Nikolaus Ager (Wikipedia)
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In 1618 he became a professor of medicine and botany at Strasbourg.
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Nostradamus (Wikipedia)
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was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer
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Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg (source article)
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was a Czech medical doctor and writer on alchemy
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Abraham Portaleone (Wikipedia)
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typical of Renaissance thought in its integration of science and religion
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Yuthog Yontan Gonpo (Wikipedia)
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a mythical 8th-century high lama and a physician of Tibet
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Jobus Fincelius (Wikipedia)
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was a 16th-century humanist and physician.
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Heinrich Brucaeus (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician, astronomer and mathematician
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Clarice di Durisio (Wikipedia)
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fl. 15th century
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Thomas Pell (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Pell, 1st Lord of Pelham Manor (1608, September 21, 1669) was an English-born physician
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Jean Fernel (Wikipedia)
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was a French physician who introduced the term
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Theodor Zwinger (Wikipedia)
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was a Swiss physician and Renaissance humanist scholar
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Felix Platter (Wikipedia)
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was a Swiss physician, botanist, and diarist
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Girolamo Mercuriale (Wikipedia)
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was an Italian philologist and physician
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Andrea Cesalpino (Wikipedia)
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was a Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist
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Prospero Alpini (Wikipedia)
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was a Venetian physician and botanist
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Johann Weyer (Wikipedia)
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was a Dutch physician who was among the first to publish a thorough treatise against the trials and persecution of people accused of witchcraft
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Oswald Croll (Wikipedia)
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was an alchemist, and professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany
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Josephus Struthius (Wikipedia)
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was a Polish professor of medicine at Padua University (1535-1537) and personal physician for Polish kings
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Jacobus Bontius (Wikipedia)
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was a Dutch physician and a pioneer of tropical medicine
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Rembert Dodoens (Wikipedia)
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was a Flemish physician and botanist
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Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician
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Nicolás Monardes (Wikipedia)
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was a Spanish physician and botanist
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Francisco Hernández de Toledo (Wikipedia)
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was a naturalist and court physician to Philip II of Spain
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Guy Patin (Wikipedia)
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Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650-1652)
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Sebastiano Bado (Wikipedia)
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By the end of his career, Bado had become head of two city hospitals in Genoa.
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Michael Ettmüller (Wikipedia)
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He enjoyed a great reputation as a lecturer, and wrote many tracts on medical and chemical subjects.
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Michael Alberti (Wikipedia)
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In 1710 he became an associate professor of medicine and became a full professor at Halle in 1716
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Charles Drelincourt (physician) (Wikipedia)
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There he held the Chair of Medicine at Leiden University
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Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo (Wikipedia)
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Eventually he became a personal physician for the German Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
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Guy-Crescent Fagon (Wikipedia)
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He also acted as the physician of Louis XIV.
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John Arbuthnot (Wikipedia)
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was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London
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Charaka (Wikipedia)
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He is known as a physician who edited the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda, included under Brhat-Trayi.
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Wikipedia: Girolamo Fracastoro
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Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8-6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.
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Hippocrates (Wikipedia)
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Hippocrates of Kos (; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460, c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, named after his grandfather Hippocrates I (also Hippocrates of Kos or Hippocrates I of Kos) was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
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Avicenna (Wikipedia)
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Ibn Sina (c. 980-22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world.
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Peseshet (Wikipedia)
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Peseshet, who lived under the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (albeit a date in the Fifth Dynasty is also possible), is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in history.
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Wikipedia: Zhang Zhongjing
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Zhang Zhongjing (Chinese: 張仲景; 150-219), formal name Zhang Ji (張機), was a Chinese pharmacologist, physician, inventor, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han dynasty.
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Trota of Salerno (Wikipedia)
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Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta), often called Trotula, was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. She was one of a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy at the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical schools to allow women in Europe.
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