The Trotula
Subtitle: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812235890
Subjects: History of medicine; Women's studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Medicine; History - General History; Women's Studies - History; History: World; Salerno; Medieval; History; History / Medieval; Early works to 1800; Gynecology; Italy; 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.