University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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Oath of Hippocrates I SWEAR BY APOLLO, THE PHYSICIAN, BY AESCULAP- IUS, BY HYGEIA, BY PANACEA, AND BY ALL THE GODS AND GODDESSES, CALLING THEM TO WITNESS THAT ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND JUDGEMENT I WILL IN EVERY PARTICULAR KEEP THIS, MY OATH AND COVENANT: TO REGARD HIM WHO TEACHES THIS ART EQUALLY WITH MY PARENTS, TO SHARE MY SUBSTANCE, AND, IF HE BE IN NEED, TO RELIEVE HIS NECESSITIES; TO REGARD HIS OFFSPRING EQUALLY WITH MY BRETHREN; AND TO TEACH HIS ART IF THEY SHALL WISH TO LEARN IT, WITHOUT FEE OR STIPU- LATION; TO IMPART A KNOWLEDGE BY PRECEPT, BY LECTURE, AND BY EVERY OTHER MODE OF INSTRUCTION TO MY SONS, TO THE SONS OF MY TEACHER, AND TO THE PUPILS WHO ARE BOUND BY STIPULATION AND OATH, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MEDI- CINE, BUT TO NO OTHER. I WILL USE THAT REGIMEN WHICH, ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND JUDGEMENT, SHALL BE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE SICK, AND I WILL REFRAIN FROM THAT WHICH SHALL BE BANEFUL AND INJURIOUS. IF ANY SHALL ASK OF ME A DRUG TO PRODUCE DEATH, I WILL NOT GIVE IT, NOR WILL I SUGGEST SUCH COUNSEL. IN LIKE MANNER I WILL NOT GIVE TO A WOMAN A DESTRUCTIVE PESSARY. WITH PURITY AND HOLINESS WILL I WATCH CLOSELY MY LIFE AND MY ART. I WILL NOT CUT A PERSON WHO IS SUFFERING FROM A STONE, BUT WILL GIVE WAY TO THOSE WHO ARE PRACTITION- ERS IN THIS WORK. INTO WHATEVER HOUSES I SHALL ENTER, I WILL GO TO AID THE SICK, ABSTAINING FROM EVERY VOLUNTARY ACT OF INJUSTICE AND CORRUPTION, AND FROM LASCIVIOUS- NESS WITH WOMEN OR MEN . . . FREE OR SLAVES. WHATEVER IN THE LIFE OF MEN I SHALL SEE OR HEAR, IN MY PRACTICE OR WITHOUT MY PRACTICE, WHICH SHOULD NOT BE MADE PUBLIC, THIS WILL I HOLD IN SILENCE, BELIEVING THAT SUCH THINGS SHOULD NOT BE SPOKEN. WHILE I KEEP THIS, MY OATH, INVIOLATE AND UNBROKEN, MAY IT BE GRANTED TO ME TO ENJOY LIFE AND MY ART, FOREVER HONORED BY ALL MEN; BUT SHOULD I BY TRANSGRESSION VIO- LATE IT, BE MINE THE REVERSE.