Bust of Hippocrates

I swear by Apollon, doctor, by Esculape, Hygie and Panacee, all the gods and all the goddesses, taking them to witness whom I will fill, according to my forces and my capacity, the oath and following engagement:

«I will put my Master of doctor at the same row as the authors of my days, I will divide with him my to have and, if necessary, I will provide for his needs; I will hold his children for brothers, and, if they wish to learn medicine, I will teach it to them without wages nor engagement. I will make share of the precepts, the oral lessons and the remainder of teaching to my sons, those of my Master and to the disciples bound by engagement and an oath following the medical law, but with no one other. I will direct the mode of the patients to their advantage, according to my forces and my judgement, and I will abstain from any evil and any injustice.»

«I will not give to anybody of the poison, if one asks some to me, nor will not take the initiative of a similar suggestion; similarly, I will not give to any woman an abortive tool, I will pass my life and I will exert my art in innocence and the purity. I will not practise the operation of the size. Some house that I enter, I will enter there for the utility of the patients, preserving me of any voluntary and corrupting misdeed, and especially of the seduction of the women and the boys, free or slaves. No matter what I see or hear in the company during the exercise or even out of the exercise of my profession, I will conceal what never does not need to be revealed, looking at discretion like a duty in such a case.»

«If I filled this oath without to infringe, that it is given to me to enjoy fortunately the life and my profession, honoured forever with the men; if I violate it and that I perjury, would I to have a contrary fate.»

Professional Oath