Epilogue

Abstract

This book has considered the role and contributions of late medieval and Early Modern European women to health and healing in a selection of countries. Beginning with the later Middle Ages, we have witnessed the extensive contributions made by women practitioners, famous and not so famous. Anna Comnena and Trotula are two names which come to mind when chronicling important medical women of Byzantium and Salerno, but there were countless women whose names we will never know who treated the sick at this time.