Question
Paul of Aegina’s (“ee-JYE-nuh’s”) medical compendium cites a cosmetic text by a physician identified with this ruler, who was credited with medieval writings on pessaries and alchemy like the Chrysopoeia (“kry-so-PEE-uh”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ruler who cuts open the wombs of enslaved women to study sexual differentiation in a story from the Talmud. This ruler supposedly cured baldness with bear’s grease and dissolved a pearl in vinegar.
ANSWER: Cleopatra [or Cleopatra VII or Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator; accept “Cleopatra the Physician” or “Cleopatra the Alchemist”]
[10h] Either Cleopatra or this pseudonymous woman was credited with writing the Diseases and Cures of Women.
ANSWER: Metrodora (Her name means “gifts of the womb,” and scholars disagree if she was a real doctor or a fictional moniker of unknown scholars.)
[10e] Metrodora sourced remedies from the Euporista spuriously credited to this author, who was called a student of Cleopatra in Arabic texts. Soranus’s Gynecology followed the principles of this Roman physician from Pergamon.
ANSWER: Galen [or Claudius Galenus; or Galen of Pergamon or Galen of Pergamum; accept Pseudo-Galen; accept Galenic medicine or Galenic corpus; prompt on Claudius]
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