The Trotula is a text on women’s medicine compiled in southern Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It has three sections: the Book on the Conditions of Women, Women’s Cosmetics, and Treatments for Women. The Treatments for Women is attributed to Trota (or Trocta), a female healer from the city of Salerno, a city known as a center for medical knowledge. Her name lends itself to the title given to the entire collection, even though the two other sections were written by male authors. The three texts approach women’s health from different perspectives, ranging from the theoretical to the practical. Trota’s Treatments for Women is mainly experiential with practical advice and recipes for women’s, and some men’s, conditions. It also reveals the social lives of women in Salerno at the time. There are 126 known manuscripts of the Latin Trotula with 29 representing a relative standardized version, indicating its popularity.