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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
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Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
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