Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hippocratic Draft
I threw something and broke a pen earlier today while working on this poem, when I couldn't find my stress ball. Anyway, this title is of course stolen from Hippocrates (though not his namesake Oath). I have resolved the Adobe issues on my computer now. I think.
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I recall the phrase from Hippocrates as "First do no harm."
Did some quick checking around the web, found a number of references to the Latin form of the phrase, "Primum non nocere." (Didn't find the original Greek phrase, and don't know enough Greek to vouch for it if I did.) Most of the online sources I found translated the Latin as "first do no harm," although one source referred to an alternate rendering as "above all do no harm."
For what it's worth.
WV is "rations," which seems symbolic of something or other.
Did some quick checking around the web, found a number of references to the Latin form of the phrase, "Primum non nocere." (Didn't find the original Greek phrase, and don't know enough Greek to vouch for it if I did.) Most of the online sources I found translated the Latin as "first do no harm," although one source referred to an alternate rendering as "above all do no harm."
For what it's worth.
WV is "rations," which seems symbolic of something or other.
"First do no harm" is the phrase incorrectly attributed to the Oath. In his Epidemics, Hippocrates wrote that doctors should "help, or at least do no harm."
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