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Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients


~ ANOMALY  id+ | AN EXCEPTION |     sug> NORM
           id+ | IRREGULAR |        sug> RULE
           gr NOMOS = LAW  VALUE    sug> ETHICS
~ ANOMIA   id+ | UNLIKE |
           gr ANOMIOS = UNLIKE
           med> A FORM OF BRAIN DAMAGE or AMNESIA
                manifested by an
           INABILITY TO RECALL THE NAME OF THINGS
           or AMNESTIC APHASIA
~ ANOMIE   or
~ ANOMY    id+ | LAWLESS  LAWLESSNESS |
               in most modern sense
           DESINTEGRATION or DISORDERED SOCIETIES into
           INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS including
           rule by "PRIVATE" or "TRIBAL" or
           "SPECIAL INTERESTS"
               consider RULE BY
               "ANONYMOUS" CORPORATIONS
~ ANONYMOUS  id+ | NAMELESS | thus
             UNKNOWN  OBSCURE  UNNAMED
  from gr  NOME    = NAME         sug> NOMENCLATURE
          ANOMALIA   INEQUALITY  opp is
           HOMOIOS   or
           HOMALOS   or
           HOMOS     SAME or COMMON
  note     NORM      as if  HOMOGENEOUS    sug> GENE
         ABNORMAL           HETEROGENEOUS
  ply> | ANONYMITY PROMOTES ANOMY consider ANOMALIES in
         ANONYMOUS SOCIETIES and FUNDING OF POLITICS |


~ ANOREXIA  id+ | AVERSION TO FOOD |
            also see> SITOPHOBIA
  gr OREGEIN = DESIRE
     SITOS     FOOD
  note  ANOREXIA IS A PROFOUND LACK OF DESIRE or
        APPETITE mostly TO EAT
  biol> note OREGANO which increases the APPETITE
  med> ANOREXIA NERVOSA IS A SERIOUS MENTAL DISORDER
       MORE COMMON IN FEMALES WHO OFTEN DENY THEIR ILLNESS
  AND MAY ENGAGE IN PERIODIC or PERIODICAL  sug> CYCLE
  GORGING ON FOOD or                        sug> GUZZLE
  BULIMIA                                   see> GARGANTUA
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