Agatha Streicher (1520–1581), was a German physician who lived her entire life in Ulm.
She was acknowledged to have sufficient knowledge to practice medicine in her hometown of Ulm and on 15 March 1561, Streicher was allowed to take the Hippocratic Oath, which had been binding since 1533.
[2] In this way, she was appointed as a "non-academic doctor in Ulm and was allowed to do medicine in private practice.
"[2] Her reputation spread far and wide and many personalities came to Ulm for treatment, such as the Princess of Hohenzollern and the Bishop of Speyer.
In 1576, she was even called to Regensburg to the bedside of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor who suffered from severe gout.