Mercuriade (14th century) was an Italian physician, surgeon and medical author. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the Middle Ages.[1][2][3]
Mercuriade trained in medicine at the University of Salerno, as one of a very small number of female students.[4][5] She was the author of the treaties De Febre Pestilenti (on Crisis in Pestilent Fever), De Curatio (The Cure of Wounds) and De Ungentis (on Ungentis).[1] Her work was included in the Collectio Salernitana.[6]
^ abBoggi, Pina Cavallo (2023), Marsico, Giuseppina; Tateo, Luca (eds.), "Women and Popular Medicine", Humanity in Psychology: The Intellectual Legacy of Pina Boggi Cavallo, Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 25–34, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30640-2_3, ISBN978-3-031-30640-2, retrieved 2024-01-29
