Lexicon:Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates
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| Term: | Hippocratic oath, Hippocrates |
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| 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. |
Additional information
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.
Categories: Maturin's Medicine:-H- | Maturin's Medicine:HMS Surprise (novel) | Maturin's Medicine:HMS Surprise (novel, chapter 05) | Maturin's Medicine:HMS Surprise (novel, chapter 08) | Maturin's Medicine:The Fortune of War | Maturin's Medicine:The Fortune of War (chapter 04) | Maturin's Medicine:The Ionian Mission | Maturin's Medicine:The Ionian Mission (chapter 04)
