Adelmota of Carrara

Adelmota of Carrara (early 14th-century) was an Italian physician. She was a physician and obstetrician from Padua. The daughter of the Count of Castelnuovo, she married Prince Giovanni of Carrara.[1] [2]

Little is known about Adelmota. The seventeenth-century writer Joannes Rhodius stated that she was a most learned physician. [2]

References

  1. Marilyn Ogilvie & Joy Harvey, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science
  2. Baudouin, Marcel (1901). Les Femmes médecins (in French). Institut International Bibliographie.
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