Relief. Hippocratic Oath. 40x28cm

Description

Relief made in reconstituted marble (resin + marble dust). Patina applied with natural earth.

Measurements: Height: 40 cm. Width: 28 cm. Depth: 2.5 cm.

Hippocrates created the oath when he began to teach apprentices who were not of his own family, away from the tradition of the medical profession.

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath that people do, who have studied medicine and when they begin their practice with patients or when they graduate in medicine or any area of health. It will be done faced of other medical, doctors and faced with the community. It has an ethical content to guide the practice of his profession, is also the oath that is based from the responsibility of human beings and aware of it.

Hippocratic Oath

Hippocrates of Cos (5th century BC) “I swear by the Physicians and Aesculapius and by Hygeia and Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my judges, that this my oath shall be fulfilled as far as I have power and discernment. He who taught me this art, I will esteem him as I esteemed my fathers; he shall partake of my commandment, and if he will, he shall partake of my goods. I will regard his offspring as my brothers, teaching them this art without charge, if they wish to learn it. I will instruct by precept, by speech and in all other ways, my children, the children of the one who taught me and the disciples united by oath and stipulation, according to the medical law, and not other people. I will carry forward that regimen, which according to my power and discernment will be for the benefit of the sick and turn them away from harm and terror. To no one will I give a deadly drug even when requested, nor will I give advice to this end. Likewise, I will not give a woman suppositories to provoke abortion; I will keep my life and my art pure. I will not operate on anyone by calculation, leaving the way to those who work in that practice. Into whatever house I enter, I will go for the benefit of the sick, abstaining from all wilful error and corruption, and from lewdness with women or free men or slaves. I will keep silence about all that in my profession, or out of it, I hear or see in the lives of men that should not be public, keeping these things in such a way that they cannot be spoken of. Now, if I keep this oath and break it not, let the fruits of life and art be mine, that I may always be honoured by all men, and let the contrary befall me if I break it and am perjured.”