For the Analyst's Notepad Section, the Editors welcome the contribution of brief vignettes or notes on clinical subjects which demonstrate nascent ideas that may not yet be fully elaborated for more formal presentation. We hope also that this space might become a forum for the exchange of ideas and clinical experiences, proceeding responsively from issue to issue.

I want to talk about case histories, how they arose, what they consist of, what motivates their making, what human pursuits they serve, and, with psychoanalytic case histories, how precarious they are at the present time.

As a premedical student at the University of Kansas, I tacked on the wall over my study area a quotation from Hippocrates. It was on the sacred disease, the epilepsies of his day. He was strongly opposed