Agnodice, Ancient Greek Physician, 4th #2
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Agnodice, Ancient Greek Physician, 4th #2
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Agnodice (4th century BCE) was the first female Athenian physician, midwife, and gynecologist. Though women were allowed to learn gynecology, obstetrics, and midwifery in the time of Hippocrates, after his death the leaders of Athens discovered that women were performing abortions, and made becoming a female doctor a capital crime. Determined to become a physician she left Athens to study medicine in nearby Egypt, where women played an important role in the medical community. After acquiring her qualifications, she cut her hair and donned the clothes of a man in order to treat the women of Athens. Agnodice might have been a mythical figure, but has become a symbolic figure for female doctors. This image has been color-enhanced.
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