The Trotula Julia Jude Both the author and her

Both the author and her father were injured by medical treatments that were intended to help

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The Trotula Julia Jude Both the author and herThe Trotula was the most influential compendium of 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 the first English translation ever