Precepts

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It is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what it seemly.

Hippocrates

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Topic

Practicing medicine Serving others

Author

Hippocrates

Source

Precepts

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hippocrates. Precepts. c. 4th century BC, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Hippocrates. "Precepts." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.