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Leprechaun
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

~ LEPRECHAUN  id+ | CATCH ONE AND GET
                    A CROCK OF GOLD |
              " TAKE YOUR EYES AWAY FORM HIM AND
                HE WILL VANISH " someone wrote
~ LEPRECHAUNISM  see> ELFIN   see> PIXIE
                 id+ | A COMPLEX GROWTH DISORDER |
                 also known as
  DONOHUE SYNDROME although described BY
  DONOHUE and UCHIDA  perhaps DONOHUE alone is more
  EUPHONIC to ANGLOSAXON EARS WITHOUT UCHIDA
  which underscores how CULTURAL BIAS ENTERS HISTORY
  HEROES ARE MADE BY A CHOIR OF "FRIENDS"
  med> MANIFESTED IN NEWBORNS AS
       HIRSUTISM or EXCESS OF HAIR and
  AN ELFIN or GNOME LIKE FACE or FACIES with
  WIDE SET EYES and many other features
  due to abnormalities in INSULIN RECEPTORS
  see> IBIS or
  International
  Birth Defects
  Information
  Systems or
  search for key words
  Leprechaunism Dwarfism or Donohue in
  http://ibis-birthdefects.org/start or
  other web sites   
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