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Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th-Century Teen Anatomist?

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Scientific American

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4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the Western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th-century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical research. One flouted that rule—disguised as a man.

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Alessandra Giuliani lived in the 14th century.

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That was 500 years before women were admitted to any medical school in the world.

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So, Alessandra did what she had to do to practice medicine.

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She put on a man's tunic and curtail,

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snuck into the medical amphitheater, and started dissecting cadavers.

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