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Calyx
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

~ CALYX  or CALYC~   see> CALC CALCIUM
^u       lat CALYX or gr KALYX = CUP
  also in
  biol> THE OUTER COVERING OF A FLOWER or
  med>  MEMBRANOUS SAC ENCLOSING
        EACH PAPILLA OF THE KIDNEY
  
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