Sara de Sancto Aegidio

Sara de Sancto Aegidio (St. Gilles) (also known as Sara of St. Gilles, or Sara de Saint Gilles; died after 1326) was a French physician.[1]

Sara of Sancto Aegidio lived in Marseille, France.[1] She was the daughter of Davin and the widow of a physician named Avraham.[1][2] Her practice and medical knowledge is known through a contract with her student, Salvetus de Burgonoro of Salon de Provence, which is dated August 28, 1326.[1] The contract states that Sara de Sancto Aegidio was to instruct him in medicine for seven months, and also provide him with lodging and clothing.[1] In return, Sara de Sancto Aegidio's pupil was to give her any earnings that he might receive during his apprenticeship.[1] This document is the earliest and best known example of this type of teacher-student contracts.[3]

References
  1. Tallan, Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, Cheryl (2003). The JPS guide to Jewish women : 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E. (1st ed.). Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. p. 86. ISBN 0827607520.
  2. Advocate: America's Jewish Journal. 655. 29 January 1921.
  3. Shatzmiller, Joseph (1994). Jews, medicine, and Medieval society. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. p. 24. ISBN 0520080599.


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