I just noticed that I have reached the 1000 post mark. Time to do something special.
Here is a summer rerun. A reminder from post #1 – June, 2002.
The Beginning
iv. to teach them this techne, should they desire to learn [it], without fee and written covenant, and to give a share both of rules and of lectures, and of all the rest of learning, to my sons and to the [sons]of him who has taught me and to the pupils who have both make a written contract and sworn by a medical convention but by no other. (from the Hippocratic oath – translated)
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/oath.htm
On to the second 1000.