Later medieval depiction of a ‘female healer’, perhaps based on Trota herself
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We know very little of the life of Trota except that she worked at the Medical School of Salerno during the 12th century. There are no biographical records; we don’t even have her dates. All we have is her academic work, and some of this only in the third person. Even this 14th-century image of a ‘female healer’ is probably not a likeness.