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his offspring’s as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to
teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and
covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and
all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who
has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the
covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical
law, but no one else.
• I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick
according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from
harm and injustice.
• I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it,
nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not
give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I
will guard my life and my art.
• I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but
will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this
work.
• Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the
sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief
and in particular of sexual relations with both female and
male persons, be they free or slaves.
• What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or
even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men,
which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to
myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
• If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to
me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all
men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely,
may the opposite of all this be my lot.
Hypnocratic Oath
In the International Hypnotists Guild we vow to a modern version of
the Hippocratic and Osteopathic oath that we have created for
every therapeutic practice: