Hippocratic Oath

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Good morning all....I wonered if any of you have read the Classical Version

of The Hipocratic Oath? I thought I would send it on as it is Very

Interesting! If only the Medical Profession had not altered this.

 

Love....Mary O

 

 

 

Hippocrates, the father of medicine

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Hippocratic Oath -- Classical Version

 

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all

the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil

according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

 

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my

life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a

share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male

lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without

fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all

the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me

and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according

to the medical law, but no one else.

 

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my

ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

 

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I

make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an

abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

 

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will

withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

 

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick,

remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in

particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they

free or slaves.

 

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the

treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread

abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken

about.

 

If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to

enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to

come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be

my lot.