4.5 women healers in ancient greece
credited with starting the female medical revolution in Athens
she studied & practiced medicine disguised as a man (as so have many women in the last 5000 years).
when her male colleagues, jealous of her success, found out her true identity - she was found guilty for illegal practicing of medicine & sentenced to death
her women patients marched to the courthouse & threatened mass suicide if agnodice wasn’t set free
the judge acquiesced & from then on, women were permitted to practice & study, but only on other women
was a famous healer who widely used medicinal plants
credited for discovering wormwood, which was subsequently named after her (artemisia absinthium)
practiced during the first century ACE
she specialized in gynaecology & obstetrics with a focus on childbirth & birth control
Agnodice or Agnodike is a legendary figure credited as the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens.
Artemisia I of Caria was a Greek queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos, within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria, in about 480 BC.
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology which is a surgical field.
