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Halitosis
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

~ HALITOSIS  id+ | FETID BREATH |
             from
  lat HALITUS    = BREATH
  lat FETOR ORIS   FETID BREATH
  med> COMMON COMPLICATION OF POOR ORAL HYGIENE
  myth> note that HALITOSIS IS FROM HELL
        since MEPHITIS DID EXHALE FROM HADES
  A FETID  MEPHISTOPHELES
  lit+ note FAUSTUS by GOETHE [#]
  hx> probably HALITOSIS has to do with the
      STINKING ROMAN FISH SAUCE KNOWN AS
  ALE  HALLEC  or  HALLEX
  continued under see> HALLUX
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