Little is known of Mustio/Muscio. He lived around 500 AD and wrote a treatise on Gynaecology, ''Genecia'', which is aimed at midwives. He was probably of North African origin as has been assumed from the occurrence of a number of Punic herb names, among them ''zenzur'', in his text. His work is basically a modified translation into Latin of a work, often called "Gynaecology", by the Greek physician Soranus of the 1st c. AD.  
 
Little is known of Mustio/Muscio. He lived around 500 AD and wrote a treatise on Gynaecology, ''Genecia'', which is aimed at midwives. He was probably of North African origin as has been assumed from the occurrence of a number of Punic herb names, among them ''zenzur'', in his text. His work is basically a modified translation into Latin of a work, often called "Gynaecology", by the Greek physician Soranus of the 1st c. AD.