How's about this! Perhaps parasites and not just snakes! Just ran across this in an article by Dyann Joyce, "You know that medical symbol with the snakes around the stick? Well, originally, as you use a stick to pull and reel out your tapeworm or Guinea worm, the way to heal from a tapeworm infestation was literally to wrap him on that stick and pull and keep him on it until it is out."
"You couldn’t force it as it’s wrapped in your intestines, so the stick hung there until it was reeled out. Yeah, the medical way of healing was the stick with a worm tied around it. It evolved into the medical Caduceus and Abacus, here’s the NY Times on it."
https://www.nytimes.com/20...
"You couldn’t force it as it’s wrapped in your intestines, so the stick hung there until it was reeled out. Yeah, the medical way of healing was the stick with a worm tied around it. It evolved into the medical Caduceus and Abacus, here’s the NY Times on it."
https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Slithery Medical Symbolism: Worm or Snake? One or Two? - The New York Times
Symbols Asklepian, which uses one snake, and caduceus, which has two snakes, are used to represent medical profession; background of and opinions on each symbol discussed; drawings (M)
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/health/slithery-medical-symbolism-worm-or-snake-one-or-two.html?_r=0
09:43 AM - Oct 21, 2022
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