Mercuriade

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". She is considered one of the "Ladies of Salerno" along with Abella, Rebecca Guarna, and Francesca de Romana who attended the medical school in Salerno from its beginning and helped usher in a "'medical renaissance'" in Europe.^[1]

References

1. Proffitt, Pamela (1999). Notable Women Scientists. Detroit: Gale Group. p. 1. ISBN 0787639001.

• Walsh JJ. 'Medieval Women Physicians' in Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages, ch. 8, (Fordham University Press; 1911)
• Howard S. The Hidden Giants, ch. 2, (Lulu.com; 2006)