Mercuriade
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Mercuriade was an Italian physician
, surgeon
and medical author in the 14th century. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the middle ages.
Mercuriade was a student of the University of Salerno
and belonged to the minority of female students of her time period. She was the author of several medical works on "Crisis", on "Pestilent Fever", and of "The Cure of Wounds".
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
and medical author in the 14th century. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the middle ages.
Mercuriade was a student of the University of Salerno
University of Salerno
The University of Salerno is a university located in Salerno, Italy. It is organized in 10 Faculties.-History:Salerno, a city in which, as Michelet said, “emperors, kings, popes, and the richest barons all had their own doctor”, developed during the Middle Ages around its prestigious School of...
and belonged to the minority of female students of her time period. She was the author of several medical works on "Crisis", on "Pestilent Fever", and of "The Cure of Wounds".