Philip Hart writes:
>I meant "mercury" in the sense of "quicksilver", hence the lower-case "m",
>but ok, will ponder further. Maybe scalpel through the association with
>medicine.
[changed the topic to represent the OT nature of this thread-segment]
The association of the cadescus and medicine is apocryphal. (Hermes has
no significant medical attributes) -- it was (basically, mistakenly)
used for a while in the US, but the actual snake-based Greek medical
symbol is the Aescalepus (and US medical organizations basically
changed over to that a few years ago) -- the single-snake staff.
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