| Description |
xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Salerno -- Women's medicine -- The fate of the Trotula -- Notes on this edition and translation -- Edition and translation of the standardized Trotula ensemble -- Liber de Sinthomatibus Mulierum (Book on the conditions of women) -- De Curis Mulierum (On treatments for women) -- De Ornatu Mulierum (On women's cosmetics) -- Appendix: Compound medicines employed in the Trotula ensemble |
| Summary |
A critical edition of the so-called standardized 'Trotula' ensemble, a composite form of several related Medieval treatises based on the body of gynecological texts in Latin called, after its half-legendary authoress, "Trotula", and produced in the mid-thirteenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-268) and indexes |
| Notes |
Latin text with English parallel translation and introductory material |
| Subject |
Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.
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Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine -- Italy -- Salerno -- History.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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| Author |
Green, Monica Helen.
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| LC no. |
00047945 |
| ISBN |
0812235894 : |
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