Agnodice

Agnodice

The first female Athenian doctor (Agnodice) had to dress as a man in order to get her education and practice medicine because being a female doctor was a capital crime, but when she became the most popular doctor in town among women in her male guise, the other doctors accused her of seducing her patients.

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