Endtime Prophecy Net: The Hippocratic Oath

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH :

Translation by Heinrich Von Staden,

"In a pure and holy way:"

"Personal and Professional Conduct in the Hippocratic Oath,"

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

51 (1996) 406-408.

1. i. I swear

ii. by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Health
and Panacea and by all the gods as well as goddesses, making
them judges [witnesses],

iii. to bring the following oath and written covenant to
ful- fillment,in accordance with my power and my judgment;

2. i. to regard him who has taught me this techne as equal
to my parents, and

ii. to share, in partnership, my livelihood with him and to
give him a share when he is in need of necessities, and

iii. to judge the offspring [coming] from him equal to [my]
male siblings, and

iv. to teach them this techne, should they desire to learn
[it], without fee and written covenant, and to give a share
both of rules and of lectures, and of all the rest of
learning, to my sons and to the [sons]of him who has taught
me and to the pupils who have both make a written contract
and sworn by a medical convention but by no other.

3. i. And I will use regimens for the benefit of the ill in
accordance with my ability and my judgment, but from [what
is] to their harm or injustice I will keep [them].

4. i. And I will not give a drug that is deadly to anyone if
asked [for it],

ii. nor will I suggest the way to such a counsel. And
likewise I will not give a woman a destructive pessary.

5. i. And in a pure and holy way

ii. I will guard my life and my techne.

6. i. I will not cut, and certainly not those suffering from
stone, but I will cede [this] to men [who are] practitioners
of this activity.

7. i. Into as many houses as I may enter, I will go for the
benefit of the ill,

ii. while being far from all voluntary and destructive
injustice, especially from sexual acts both upon women's
bodies and upon men's, both of the free and of the slaves.

8. i. And about whatever I may see or hear in treatment, or
even without treatment, in the life of human beings --
things that should not ever be blurted out outside --I will
remain silent, holding such things to be unutterable
[sacred, not to be divulged],

i. a. If I render this oath fulfilled, and if I do not blur
and confound it [making it to no effect]

b. may it be [granted] to me to enjoy the benefits both of
life and of techne,

c. being held in good repute among all human beings for time
eternal.

ii. a. If, however, I transgress and purjure myself,

b. the opposite of these