The Trotula
Subtitle: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780812218084
Subjects: Medicine; History - General History; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medical; Women; General; History / General; Medical : Gynecology & Obstetrics; Gynecology; History; Early works to 1800; Health and hygiene; Obstetrics
First sentence: [I] When God the creator of the universe in the first establishment of the world differentiated the individual natures of things each according to its kind, He endowed human nature above all other things with a singular dignity, giving to it above the condition of all other animals freedom of reason and intellect.