Abella
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Abella was a 14th century Italian
physician
who taught at the Salerno school of medicine
. Abella wrote medical treatises in verse
, and lectured on, among other topics, the nature of women. Her published medical treatises, De atrabile (Black Bile) and De natura seminis humani (Nature of seminal fluid), have not survived.
Italian
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physician
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...
who taught at the Salerno school of medicine
Schola Medica Salernitana
The Schola Medica Salernitana was the first medieval medical school in the cosmopolitan coastal south Italian city of Salerno, which provided the most important source of medical knowledge in Western Europe at the time...
. Abella wrote medical treatises in verse
Verse (poetry)
A verse is formally a single line in a metrical composition, e.g. poetry. However, the word has come to represent any division or grouping of words in such a composition, which traditionally had been referred to as a stanza....
, and lectured on, among other topics, the nature of women. Her published medical treatises, De atrabile (Black Bile) and De natura seminis humani (Nature of seminal fluid), have not survived.