A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Agnodice
AGNODICE,
An Athenian virgin, who disguised her sex, to learn medicine. She was taught midwifery by Herophilus, an eminent physician, was born in B. C. 506, and when employed, always discovered her sex to her patients. This procured her so much practice, that the male physicians accused her of corruption before the Areopagus. She confessed her sex to the judge, and a law was immediately made, allowing all free-born women to learn midwifery.