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Ὀμνύω Ἀπόλλωνα ἰητρὸν καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν καὶ Ὑγείαν καὶ Πανάκειαν καὶ θεοὺς πάντας τε καὶ πάσας ἴστορας ποιεύμενος ἐπιτελέα ποιήσειν κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν ὅρκον τόνδε καὶ ξυγγραφὴν τήνδε
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[5] ἡγήσασθαί τε τὸν διδάξαντά με τὴν τέχνην ταύτην ἶσα γενέτῃσιν ἐμοῖσιν καὶ βίου κοινώσασθαι καὶ χρεῶν χρηίζοντι μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι καὶ γένος τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀδελφεοῖς ἶσον ἐπικρινέειν ἄρρεσι καὶ διδάξειν τὴν τέχνην ταύτην, ἣν χρηίζωσι μανθάνειν, ἄνευ μισθοῦ καὶ ξυγγραφῆς, παραγγελίης τε καὶ ἀκροήσιος καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς ἁπάσης μαθήσιος μετάδοσιν ποιήσασθαι υἱοῖσί τε ἐμοῖσι καὶ τοῖσι [10] τοῦ ἐμὲ διδάξαντος καὶ μαθηταῖσι συγγεγραμμένοις τε καὶ ὡρκισμένοις νόμῳ ἰητρικῷ, ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενί.
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διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ' ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμήν ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν.
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οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι [15] ξυμβουλίην τοιήνδε ὁμοίως δὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω. ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ὁσίως διατηρήσω βίον ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην ἐμήν.
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οὐ τεμέω δὲ οὐδὲ μὴν λιθιῶντας, ἐκχωρήσω δὲ ἐργάτῃσιν ἀνδράσιν πρήξιος τῆσδε.
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ἐς οἰκίας δὲ ὁκόσας ἂν ἐσίω, ἐσελεύσομαι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελεἰῃ καμνὀντων ἐκτὸς ἐὼν [20] πάσης ἀδικίης ἑκουσίης καὶ φθορίης τῆς τε ἄλλης καὶ ἀφροδισίων ἔργων ἐπί τε γυναικείων σωμάτων καὶ ἀνδρείων ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων.
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ἃ δ᾽ ἂν ἐν θεραπείῃ ἢ ἴδω ἢ ἀκούσω ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπηίης κατὰ βίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκλαλέεσθαι ἔξω, σιγήσομαι ἄρρετα ἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα.
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ὅρκον μὲν οὖν μοι τόνδε ἐπιτελέα ποιέοντι καὶ μὴ ξυγχέοντι εἴη ἐπαύρασθαι [25] καὶ βίου καὶ τέχνης δοξαζομένῳ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐς τὸν αἰεὶ χρόνον, παραβαίνοντι δὲ καὶ ἐπιορκοῦντι τἀναντία τουτέων.
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I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and by all the gods and all the goddesses, making them witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and my judgment, this oath and this commitment:
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To consider my master in this art equal to my parents, to share my livelihood with him and, should he need it, to give him a share of my possessions. To cherish his descendants as my brothers and teach them this art, if they wish to learn it, without payment or compromise. To share the precepts, oral instructions and all other teachings with my children and with those of my master, and also with the apprentices who committed themselves and swore the medical law but with no other.
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I will prescribe diets for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and my judgment: I will work against their injury and injustice.
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I will not give any fatal drugs to anyone if requested nor will I forward such advice. Nor will I give to a woman an abortive pessary. Purely and devoutly, I will observe my life and my art.
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I will not even cut patients with stone but I will give a turn to those who practice it.
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In whatever houses I enter, I will enter for the benefit of the sick, refraining from all intentional injustice, from any other destructive action and also from loving relationships with the bodies of women and men, free or slaves.
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Whatever I see or hear, during treatment or even outside treatment, about people's lives, I will not divulge further, but I will silence it, considering that these things are confidential.
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If this oath I fulfill to the end, without breaking it, may I reap the fruits of my life and of my art, obtaining fame among all men forever, but, if I transgress or fail, may I obtain the opposite of it.
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