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Purple Purpura
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

~ PURPLE    see> PROPHYRIN     see> RED
            gr   PHOINIX = PURPLE
     note PHOENICIAN from which it stems
     gr   PORPHYRA  or SHELL FISH
     id + PURPLE or BLUISH ROSE or RED COLOR
     note extra ideas and roots in
     sp AMORATADO  from ARAB MOOR or
         MORO      for  MOORISH COLOR or
         MORETON   or
     eng MURREY    for MULBERRY like PURPLE from
     sp  MORA      MULBERRY
         MORENA    LADY OF DARKER COMPLEXION
     lat MORUM     MULBERRY
                   {unknown if it relates to the idea
     med>  CADAVERIC LIKE DISCOLORATIONS}
     biol> the mollusk MUREX YIELDED "ROYAL PURPLE" DYE
     see>  PORPHYRIN
     med>  see> PORPHYRIA
     hx>   PROPHYRIA MAY CAUSE DISCOLORED URINE AND
           ALTER BEHAVIOR AS WAS PROBABLY THE CASE WITH THE
           ENGLISH KING GEORGE III and
           the "MAD BUSINESS" OF THE "AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
~ PURPURA  or PELIOSIS
           id+ BLOOD UNDER THE SKIN or BLOOD LIKE DISCOLORATION
           med>  BLUISH PINK or PURPLE APPEARANCE
                 OF THOSE POISONED particularly with
            CYANIDE from gr KYANOS = BLUE or DARK BLUE
  see>      CYANOSIS
  gr   PELEOSIS = EXTRAVASATED BLOOD
       PELIO~     prefix for LIVID BLACK AND BLUE
  gr   IOS        POISON
       IODES      "PURPLISH STATE"
  sp   IODINA or
       YODINA
  see> PORPHYRIN
  see> IODINE or in       
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