The University of Salerno was the first university to admit women, resulting in the cultivation of a large group of women scholars known collectively as the Mulieres Salenitanae or the women of Salerno.
It is a great matter of interesting that Ladies who had medical training from Salerno like Trotula, Abella, Rebecca, Constanza and other, whose names were found in the history.
Trotula also wrote a book on obstetrics. Trotula also stands out from her contemporaries as the only surviving voice, recorded though her writings, which crystallized her medical advice so succinctly that her words passed though much reprinting and anthologizing. Trotula wrote prolifically on gynecology and obstetrics, and her books were the authoritative texts for centuries.
Abella was a Roman who taught at the medical school at Salerno, wrote medical treaties in verses and lectured on bile and on the nature of women. Abella wrote ‘De natura semini hominis’.
Another woman, Rebecca Guarna taught at the medical school Salerno, paid large rents for her offices, and ‘knew all medicine, herbs and roots’. She is said to have written on fevers urine and the embryo.
Ladies from Salerno school of medicine
