The International Hippocratic Foundation of Kos (IHFK) is a public benefit foundation, founded in 1960, in honor of the father of medicine Hippocrates, following the initiative of surgeon/urologist and professor at the University of Athens, Spyridon Oikonomou, who also became the first president of the foundation.
The Multilanguage Hippocratic Library can be found at the International Hippocratic Foundation of Kos. It is the result of the vision, initiative, and total funding of the honorary President of the foundation, emer. Professor of Medicine, Rutgers—New Jersey Medical School USA, Christos Moschos.
According to the oath, the young doctor who swears, confesses that he will not give any lethal medicine even if he is asked nor will he give any such advice. And below he gives another promise: he will not give fluorine to a woman.