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Ingua Ingue Ingurgito Inguen Inguinal
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

~ INGUA      or BUBO
             med> in port SWELLING OF A
                  LYMPHATIC GANGLION or NOTE
~ INGUE      or
~ INGURGITO  id+ | ENGORGE |  as in SWELLING
~ INGUEN     lat for PRIVATE or PRIVY PARTS or
~ INGUINAL   id+ | GROIN |
             hx> LYMPHNODES ARE CLUSTERED IN
  THE AXILLA and the see> GROIN
  med> IN PAST TIMES SWELLING OF LYMPHNODES
       PARTICULARLY THOSE OF THE AXILLA and
  GROIN SIGNALED MANY SERIOUS DISORDERS
  including the
  BUBONIC PLAGUE
  ANOTHER COMMON DISORDER CAUSING AN
  INGUINAL SWELLING ARE HERNIATIONS TO
  see> HERNIA
 
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