...consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and holiness...

...to my judgment, I consider for the benefit of patients, and. abstain from whatever is deleterious. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practise my art. Into whatever homes I enter...

...varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," " or "I will neither...

...varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear : "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel ; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," " or "I will neither...

...medical conduct." Wli.it then? Apparently those thousands upon thousands who have taken this oath: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion" [10] were only the tools...

...varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear : "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel ; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," " or "I will neither...

...century BC form. Almost half of all American medical schools have modified the oath. The original read: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked,...furthermore, I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce an abortion." The reformed, 1964 version reads, "Most especially must I tread with care in...

...varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," " or "I will 'neither...

...highest goal. The Hippocratic oath, once a staple of medical school graduation ceremonies, says in part, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel." Although the oath is rarely pledged these days, it decorates the wall of many a physician's office,...

...doctors since the fifth century BC, when physicians first took the Oath of Hippocrates and swore 'to give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel'. Moreover, they argue, the Nazi extermination programme is a recent and terrible example of what can...