Lexicon:Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates

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Term: Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates
References: HMS Surprise, pages 119, 265
The Fortune of War, page 129
The Ionian Mission, page 107
Meaning: The oath sworn by physicians as a part of their medical school graduation, attributed to Hippocrates, the 5th century BC Greek physician who is considered the father of western medicine. Both the classical and the modern versions have a privacy statement. In the modern version, "That whatsoever you shall see or hear of the lives of men or women which is not fitting to be spoken, you will keep inviolably secret." A body of medical works, Corpus Hippocratum, including the Hippocratic oath, survived to modern times and was part of the course of medical study well into the 19th century.


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Maturin's Medicine — This article is based on information from Maturin's Medicine, compiled and edited by Kerry Webb, with the help of a number of contributors.

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