08-03-2014, 01:04 PM
It does sound fascinating, but the source seems a bit shadowy...
The earliest mention of this person I can find online is from the 1933 Annals of Medical History, with no reference given... Quite possibly all the subsequent mentions are echoes of that one.
'Margareta' doesn't seem a very Roman or Greek name either. There are a few Margaritas and Margarises, but they seem to be Christian-era.
Could it be that the name is a mistranslation of the original Greek, and that's why it doesn't turn up elsewhere? You'd think that such a historical prodigy would have been mentioned all over the place!
* A very scholarly essay on the subject of female doctors here - no mention of Margareta though... : Galen and the Girls
The earliest mention of this person I can find online is from the 1933 Annals of Medical History, with no reference given... Quite possibly all the subsequent mentions are echoes of that one.
'Margareta' doesn't seem a very Roman or Greek name either. There are a few Margaritas and Margarises, but they seem to be Christian-era.
Could it be that the name is a mistranslation of the original Greek, and that's why it doesn't turn up elsewhere? You'd think that such a historical prodigy would have been mentioned all over the place!
* A very scholarly essay on the subject of female doctors here - no mention of Margareta though... : Galen and the Girls
Nathan Ross
