Rebecca Guarna

Rebecca Guarna (fl. 1200), was an Italian physician and surgeon and author. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the Middle Ages. She was one of the women known as the "ladies of Salerno".[1]

Rebecca Guarna was a member of the same Salernitan family as the famous Romuald Guarna, priest, physician and historian. She studied at the University of Salerno and belonged to the minority of female students of her time period.

She was the author of De Urinis (on Urine), De febrius (on Fever) and De embrione (on the embryo): her treatise De Urinis treated the method of diagnosing illness by urine sample.[2]

References
  1. Walsh, James J. (2008). Old-time makers of medicine : the story of the students & teachers of the medieval medicine. Lethe Press. ISBN 9781590210956. OCLC 671253405.
  2. L. Whaley: Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

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