FLORETA CA NOGA

FLORETA CA NOGA, 14th-century Spanish physician. A document from 1381 indicating that Na Floreta Ca Noga of St. Coloma de Queralt was paid fifteen gold florins for her successful treatment of Sibila, Queen of Aragon, is among several records of royal payments for her services. She is one of a number of known female physicians of the medieval period, many of whom specialized in diseases of the eyes. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. Cardoner Planas, "Seis mujeres hebreas practicando la medicina en el reino de Aragon," in: Sefarad, 9:2 (1949), 443; A. López de Meneses. "Documentos culturales de Pedro el ceremonioso," in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón, 5 (1953), \#84, 736–37; E. Taitz, S. Henry, and C. Tallan. The JPS Guide to Jewish Women (2003). (Judith R. Baskin (2nd ed.)