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Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury
(Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine,
Hygiene
and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals
with Clients
Esculapius is linked with a Constellation of Idealistic
Medical Ideas
Mercury or Hermes
is linked with Hermaphroditism
and Mercantile Mercenary views
Perhaps the single serpent on the Esculapian Caduceus
represents one word or truth
Perhaps the two serpents on the Caduceus of Hermes
represent the duality in "deals" or "caviat emptor"
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum
Pio Clemens in Rome (in Galerie
Mytholgique, Recueil de Monuments par A. L. Millin, Paris 1811).
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