Hippocratic Corpus
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The Hippocratic Corpus, or Hippocratic Collection, is a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works closely associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings. The Hippocratic C
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Vaticanus graecus 277, 10v-11r: Table of contents in a fourteenth-century Hippocratic Corpus manuscript. Marcus Fabius Calvus owned this manuscript, transcribed it in his own hand, and used it in the preparation of his 1525 Latin translation.
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Text from the section Aphorisms in the Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic Oath
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The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a
Hippocratic Corpus
…I.11) advises: "As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm." The most famous work in the Hippocratic Corpus is the Hippocratic Oath, a landmark declaration of medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath is both philosophical and practical; it not only deals with abstract principles but…
A fragment of the oath on the 3rd-century Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2547.
A 12th-century Greek manuscript of the oath in the shape of a cross. The oath continued to be in use in the Byzantine Christian world, with its references to pagan deities replaced by a Christian preamble.
Hippocratic Oath in a surgical treatise by Franciscus Arcaeus (1493–1573?), English edition of 1588