Who Cooked The Last Supper? Flashcards

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First known female OBGYN with medical training?

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Agnodice

4th century BC
Practiced gynecology disguised as a man
Her success made other doctors jealous and they accused her of seducing her patients

In court she had to reveal her sex to save her life, and new charges were brought against her for practicing a profession restricted by law.

Eventually acquitted of this, too, Agnodice lived to become the world’s first known woman gynecologist

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