Harvard Classics, vol 38

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Title: The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology,
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The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology,
Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

CONTENTS
THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES
THE LAW OF HIPPOCRATES
JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES ... AMBROISE PARE
TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN PAGET
ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS
WILLIAM HARVEY. . . TRANSLATED BY ROBERT WILLIS
THE THREE ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS ON VACCINATION
AGAINST SMALLPOX . ... .. EDWARD JENNER
THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER O. W.
HOLMES
ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF
SURGERY LORD LISTER
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF FERMENTATION LOUIS
PASTEUR TRANSLATED BY F. FAULKNER AND D. C. ROBB
(Revised)
THE GERM THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO MEDICINE
AND SURGERY (Revised) . ... .. LOUIS PASTEUR TRANSLATED
BY H. C. ERNST
ON THE EXTENSION OF THE GERM THEORY TO THE
ETIOLOGY OF CERTAIN COMMON DISEASES (Revised) LOUIS
PASTEUR TRANSLATED BY H. C. ERNST
PREJUDICES WHICH HAVE RETARDED THE PROGRESS OF

GEOLOGY. ... . ... .. SIR CHARLES LYELL
UNIFORMITY IN THE SERIES OF PAST CHANGES IN THE
ANIMATE AND INANIMATE WORLD SIR CHARLES LYELL

INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Hippocrates, the celebrated Greek physician, was a contemporary of the
historian Herodotus. He was born in the island of Cos between 470 and
460 B. C., and belonged to the family that claimed descent from the
mythical AEsculapius, son of Apollo. There was already a long medical
tradition in Greece before his day, and this he is supposed to have
inherited chiefly through his predecessor Herodicus; and he enlarged
his education by extensive travel. He is said, though the evidence is
unsatisfactory, to have taken part in the efforts to check the great
plague which devastated Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian
war. He died at Larissa between 380 and 360 B. C.
The works attributed to Hippocrates are the earliest extant Greek
medical writings, but very many of them are certainly not his. Some
five or six, however, are generally granted to be genuine, and among
these is the famous "Oath." This interesting document shows that in his
time physicians were already organized into a corporation or guild,
with regulations for the training of disciples, and with an esprit de
corps and a professional ideal which, with slight exceptions, can hardly
yet be regarded as out of date.
One saying occurring in the words of Hippocrates has achieved
universal currency, though few who quote it to-day are aware that it
originally referred to the art of the physician. It is the first of his
"Aphorisms": "Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting;
experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not
only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the
patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate."

THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES
I swear by Apollo the physician and AEsculapius, and Health, and
All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability
and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation --to reckon him
who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my

substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon
his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them
this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that
by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a
knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those