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This image of Mercury shows him holding a staff with a single encircling serpent, in this sense resembling the medical Asclepius more than the Caduceus. Among other domains, Hermes presided over athletics, eloquence, communication and poetry. He was considered an emissary of the Gods, and was responsible for transporting souls to the afterlife. |
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Medicine is symbolized by the Rod of Asclepius. The Staff of Hermes or the Caduceus is associated with beauty in communication. The two meet in medical vetting. The goal is to facilitate prose that is elegant, in the sense of being no more complicated that it needs to be to convey accurately and compellingly the writer's intention and current medical understanding. |
Credits: (1) Mosaic at the town hall of Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, photographed by Uwe Barghaan (2) Hans Thoma [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons (3) from the book, The Serpent Power by Sir Arthur Avalon, first published in 1919 (4) The MedicalVetting.com logo was dreamed up by Timothy McCall and brought to fruition by Stephanie Salmon, designer extraordinaire, from Gotham City Graphics in Burlington, VT.