Adelmota of Carrara

Adelmota of Carrara (fl. 1318–1324) (also known as Adelmota Maltraverse)[1] was an Italian physician and obstetrician from Padua. The daughter of the Count of Castelnuovo, she married James, Prince of Carrara.[2][3][4]

Little is known about Adelmota except the notes by the writer Joannes Rhodius (1587–1659)[5] (a Danish scholar who lived in Padua in the 17th century) who stated in his book Scribonius Largus that Adelmota was "a most learned physician" and especially skilled as an obstetrician.[2][3][6]

According to Baudouin, she practiced medicine between 1318–1324.[3]

References
  1. Little, Angela C. "Italian Women in Medicine: from Trotula to Maria Montessori". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Marilyn Ogilvie & Joy Harvey, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Retrieved 2023-10-7.
  3. Baudouin, Marcel (1901). Les Femmes médecins (in French). Institut International Bibliographie. p. 120. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. Appel, Toby A. (2014). "Writing Women into Medical History in the 1930s: Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead and "Medical Women" of the Past and Present". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 88 (3): 457–492. doi:10.1353/bhm.2014.0050. ISSN 1086-3176. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  5. "Johannes Rhodius | lex.dk". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  6. Rhodius, Joannes (1655). Scribonius Largus. Padua. p. 18.
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