Note: a carefully researched and depicted history of medicine. The central figure is Hippocrates, the father of medicine, receiving the oath; representing, in turn, the moral discipline imposed upon all doctors known as the "Hippocratic Oath".

To the left is the figure of Aesculapius, a Greek physician, cast as a demi-god in Greek and Roman societies. His devotion to the well being of people found form in temples he built where the sick were gathered to worship and receive care. Overhead of Aesculapius is a winged mask representing the "Oracle" or the voices of gods (the father of Aesculapius was Apollo, also a physician and could bestow the power of prophecy).

On the opposite side of Hippocrates is the figure of the famed Egyptian Imhopt (c. 3000 B.C.). He too was a demi-god and architect, scientist and surgeon - the triangle and scalpel being symbolic of two of the professions.

Shown on the lower right is the Greek physician, Galen, examining a human skull. His contributions to medicine date back to early Christian centuries (in his copious writings he failed to mention Christians which tends to cast doubts on many claims by Christian Church authorities). On the left corner is shown the 16th. century Flemish anatomist and physician Vesalius who studied in Bologna and Padua.