I swear by Apollo Physician and
Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them
my witnesses, that I will fulfill 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 fulfill 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.
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