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Why ancient Greece women were forbidden to study medicine and who broke that law ?

Joseph Appiah-DukubyJoseph Appiah-Duku
April 1, 2024
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In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law.

She was born in the early 300 BCE, Agnodice one of the women who had the passion to study medicine cut her hair, and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labor.

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This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing her and helped in delivering her baby.

The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.

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Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice’s sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.

Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician, and gynecologist.

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