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"I swear by Apollo the 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 the
oath according to medical law, but to no one else.
I will apply dietic 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 if
asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. 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
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 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 honoured 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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