"I swear, Apollo the physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panakeia and all the gods and goddesses as gods and goddesses as witnesses, that to the best of my ability and judgment I will fulfill this oath and obligation to respect the one who taught me this art as my parents, to share his livelihood with him and, if he suffers need, to help provide for him; to make his descendants equal to my brothers and, if they wish, to teach them this art without remuneration and contract; to give advice and lectures and all other instruction to my sons and my teacher's sons, as well as to the pupils, who, according to medical custom, are bound by contract and bound by oath, but no one else. no one else. I will make my prescriptions for the benefit and piety of the sick, to the best of my ability and judgment. I will protect them from harm and arbitrary injustice. I will not administer a deadly poison to anyone, even at their request, or even advise them to do so. Nor will I ever give a woman an abortifacient. I will keep my life and my art holy and pure. Nor will I operate on the bladder stone, but leave it to those whose obligation this is. Which houses I ever enter, I will enter them for the benefit and piety of the sick, I will refrain from any arbitrary injustice and any other harm, including all works of lust on the bodies of women and men, free and slave. What I see or hear during treatment or hear outside the treatment in the lives of people, I will, as far as it is not divulged, and will consider such things a secret. If I now fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may I be successful in life and art and may I enjoy fame among all people for all eternity; if I violate it and become perjured, the opposite."
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