Abella

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Abella was a 14th century Italian physician who taught at the Salerno school of medicine. Her published medical treatises, De atrabile (Black Bile) and De natura seminis humani (Nature of seminal fluid), have not survived.

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• Marilyn Ogilvie (1986). "Abella". Women in Science: Antiquity through Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography. MIT Press. 23. ISBN 026265038X. 
• Walsh JJ. Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages, pp. 87, (Fordham University Press; 1911) (accessed 22 August 2007)