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Diaphoresis
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


~ DIAPHORESIS  id+ PASS THROUGH as in PERSPIRATION
                   in sp SUDOR = SWEAT  thus also SUDORESIS
  med> CHEMICAL DIAPHORESIS or BY ELECTROPHORESIS IS USED
       TO COLLECT SWEAT TO MEASURE ITS CHLORIDE WHICH IF
  ELEVATED IS DIAGNOSTIC OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS        see> DIA
  
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