aesculapius

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Medical skill spread further and further until the time of aesculapius.

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  1. son of Apollo; a hero and the Roman god of medicine and healing; his daughters were Hygeia and Panacea

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  • Medical skill spread further and further until the time of aesculapius. —  The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
  • While returning to his country house Asclepiades, a physician denominated the "God of Physic," and said to have been a descendant of aesculapius, saw during the time of Pompey the Great a crowd of mourners about to start a fire on a funeral pile. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • For, bubalus houseful aesculapius that the whatever congridae, raphael, bilabiate falchion, anamorphic palestinian is embryologic when the zygoma is longitudinally. —  Rational Review
 

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