SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Cath of Hippocrates SWGFKR by Hpollo the Physician and Hesculapius and by Hygiea and Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses that according to my ability and Judgment I will keep this oath and stipulation to reckon hun who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents to share my substance with him and relieve his needs to regard his o spring as on the same footing with my own brothers and to teach them this art if they should wish to learn it By precept and lecture and evely other mode of instruction Iwil impart a lcnowledge o the art to my own sons and to those of my teachers and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine but to no others I WILL follow that method of treatment whlch according to my ability whatever is deleterious and wrong Iwill give no deadly medicine to anyone even 1 asleed nor suggest any such counsel urthermore Iwlll not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion WITH PURITY and with holiness Iwlll pass my life and practice my H112 I will not cuta person who is laboring under the stone but willleave this to practioners o this art Into whatsoever house I enter Iwlll go for the beneht ofthe sich and will abstain om every voluntary act of mischief and corruption and further from the seduction o emales or males bound or ree WHATEVER I shall see ov hear in the lives o men which ought not to be spolcen abroad Iwill not divulge reclconmg that all such should be kept sec: et WHILE I CONTINUE to lceep this my oath invlolate may it be granted to me to enjoy li e and the practice o my art respected by all men at all times but shouldI trespass and violate this oath may the reverse be my lot I f, .S V 1 ff 1 1 1 , I O , 1 -1 V Rv v f ' I ' I ' ' ' I , . and judgmentl consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from ' Y ' If r ' : lf A 1 l l 1 n fr i ff , y f . W I 9 v ' I ' f ' ' I I A- 9 ' , i , , , , - 1 'lc ' 4 ' lf 1 5 I , .

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