Trota of Salerno

Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta) was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. She (called often Trotula) was one of a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy, at the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical schools to allow women in Europe.