Editing Hippocratic Oath (section)

==Text of the oath==
[[File:Papyrus text; fragment of Hippocratic oath. Wellcome L0034090.jpg|thumb|A fragment of the oath on the 3rd-century [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|Papyrus Oxyrhynchus]] 2547.]]
The original oath was written in [[Ancient Greek]], between the fifth and third centuries BCE.<ref>{{cite book |last=Edelstein |first=Ludwig |author-link=Ludwig Edelstein |title=The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation and Interpretation |page=56 |isbn=978-0-8018-0184-6 |date=1943|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press }}</ref> Although it is traditionally attributed to the Greek doctor [[Hippocrates]] and it is usually included in the [[Hippocratic Corpus]], modern scholars do not regard it as having been written by Hippocrates himself.The oldest manuscript containing the oath dates to roughly the 10th–11th century, held in the [[Vatican Library]], although <ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.gr.64|title=Codices urbinates graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae: Folio 64(Urb.gr.64) |page=folio:116 microfilm: 121|publisher=Vatican Library: DigiVatLib|year=900–1100}}</ref> papyrus fragments of the oath have been found as early as the 3rd century AD. 

Below is the Hippocratic Oath, in Ancient Greek, from the 1923 Loeb edition, followed by the English translation:
{{Verse translation|lang=grc|italicsoff=y|ὄμνυμι Ἀπόλλωνα ἰητρὸν καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν καὶ Ὑγείαν καὶ Πανάκειαν καὶ θεοὺς πάντας τε καὶ πάσας, ἵστορας ποιεύμενος, ἐπιτελέα ποιήσειν κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμὴν ὅρκον τόνδε καὶ συγγραφὴν τήνδε:

ἡγήσεσθαι μὲν τὸν διδάξαντά με τὴν τέχνην ταύτην ἴσα γενέτῃσιν ἐμοῖς, καὶ βίου κοινώσεσθαι, καὶ χρεῶν χρηΐζοντι μετάδοσιν ποιήσεσθαι, καὶ γένος τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἀδελφοῖς ἴσον ἐπικρινεῖν ἄρρεσι, καὶ διδάξειν τὴν τέχνην ταύτην, ἢν χρηΐζωσι μανθάνειν, ἄνευ μισθοῦ καὶ συγγραφῆς, παραγγελίης τε καὶ ἀκροήσιος καὶ τῆς λοίπης ἁπάσης μαθήσιος μετάδοσιν ποιήσεσθαι υἱοῖς τε ἐμοῖς καὶ τοῖς τοῦ ἐμὲ διδάξαντος, καὶ μαθητῇσι συγγεγραμμένοις τε καὶ ὡρκισμένοις νόμῳ ἰητρικῷ, ἄλλῳ δὲ οὐδενί.

διαιτήμασί τε χρήσομαι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων κατὰ δύναμιν καὶ κρίσιν ἐμήν, ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν.

οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι συμβουλίην τοιήνδε: ὁμοίως δὲ οὐδὲ γυναικὶ πεσσὸν φθόριον δώσω.

ἁγνῶς δὲ καὶ ὁσίως διατηρήσω βίον τὸν ἐμὸν καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμήν.

οὐ τεμέω δὲ οὐδὲ μὴν λιθιῶντας, ἐκχωρήσω δὲ ἐργάτῃσιν ἀνδράσι πρήξιος τῆσδε.

ἐς οἰκίας δὲ ὁκόσας ἂν ἐσίω, ἐσελεύσομαι ἐπ᾽ ὠφελείῃ καμνόντων, ἐκτὸς ἐὼν πάσης ἀδικίης ἑκουσίης καὶ φθορίης, τῆς τε ἄλλης καὶ ἀφροδισίων ἔργων ἐπί τε γυναικείων σωμάτων καὶ ἀνδρῴων, ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων.

ἃ δ᾽ ἂν ἐνθεραπείῃ ἴδω ἢ ἀκούσω, ἢ καὶ ἄνευ θεραπείης κατὰ βίον ἀνθρώπων, ἃ μὴ χρή ποτε ἐκλαλεῖσθαι ἔξω, σιγήσομαι, ἄρρητα ἡγεύμενος εἶναι τὰ τοιαῦτα.

ὅρκον μὲν οὖν μοι τόνδε ἐπιτελέα ποιέοντι, καὶ μὴ συγχέοντι, εἴη ἐπαύρασθαι καὶ βίου καὶ τέχνης δοξαζομένῳ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐς τὸν αἰεὶ χρόνον: παραβαίνοντι δὲ καὶ ἐπιορκέοντι, τἀναντία τούτων.<ref name=Loeb_Greek>{{cite journal|last1=Hippocrates of Cos|title=The Oath|journal=Loeb Classical Library|date=1923|volume=147|pages=298–299|doi=10.4159/DLCL.hippocrates_cos-oath.1923|url=http://www.loebclassics.com/view/hippocrates_cos-oath/1923/pb_LCL147.299.xml|access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref>|I swear by [[Apollo]] Healer, by [[Asclepius]], by [[Hygieia]], by [[Panacea]], and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.

To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer's oath, but to nobody else.

I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.<ref>{{cite web |title=Greek Medicine – The Hippocratic Oath |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html |website=www.nlm.nih.gov |publisher=National Library of Medicine – NIH |access-date=29 July 2020}}</ref> Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a [[pessary]] to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from [[kidney stone|stone]], but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.<ref name="Loeb_Greek" />|attr2=Translation by W.H.S. Jones}}