My Dear Doctor:—I write to thank you for a copy of your interesting and instructive paper on “Medical Symbolism.” In Fergusson, on “Tree and Serpent Worship,” which you quote, you can readily trace the connection between the emblems of religion and medicine. I recognize that, as priest and physician were once the same person, medicine is yet justly termed “the divine art.” It affords me much pleasure to see your studious interest in your profession.
Yours truly,
Henry H. Smith.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Dedication, | [iii] |
| Preface, | [v] |
| Biographical Sketch of T. S. Sozinskey, M.D., Ph.D., | [vii] |
| Commendatory Letters, | [ix] |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Remarks on the Meaning of Symbols, | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Serpentine God of Medicine at Rome, | [5] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Æsculapian Serpent, | [13] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Epidaurian Oracle, | [17] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Asclepia and the Asclepiades, | [23] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Grecian God of Medicine, | [31] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Image of Æsculapius, | [45] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Æsculapian Staff and Serpent, | [49] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Æsculapius and the Serpent, | [59] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Various Attributes of Æsculapius, | [83] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Gods Analogous to Æsculapius, | [89] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Pine-Cone as an Attribute of Æsculapius, | [111] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Dibbara, a God of Pestilence, | [119] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Hygeia, the Goddess of Health, | [123] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Medical Talismans, | [129] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Medical Amulets, | [137] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Pharmacists’ Symbols, | [149] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| Miscellaneous Medical Symbols, | [155] |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Medical Symbolism in Practice, | [161] |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| The Pentacle, | [165] |