2006-09-30 09:57:23 · 7 answers · asked by grisha 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Caduceus
The caduceus as a Medical symbol: The link between Hermes and his caduceus and medicine seems to have arisen by Hermes links with alchemy. Alchemists were referred to as the sons of Hermes, as Hermetists or Hermeticists and as "practitioners of the hermetic arts". By the end of the sixteenth century, the study of alchemy included not only medicine and pharmaceuticals but chemistry, mining and metallurgy. Despite learned opinion that it is the single snake staff of Asclepius that is the proper symbol of medicine, many medical groups have adopted the twin serpent caduceus of Hermes or Mercury as a medical symbol during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
2006-09-30 09:59:29 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
a pole with 2 snakes wrapped around it
2006-09-30 17:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cross with snakes wrapped around it.
2006-09-30 16:59:06 · answer #3 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cross with snake on it.
Kind of reminds you of the snake in the garden of Eden, crawling up the tree....
2006-09-30 17:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snakes
2006-09-30 16:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called a caduceus
2006-09-30 19:57:31 · answer #6 · answered by MUD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.14kgoldpendants.com/gold-pendants/14-karat-gold-pendants/ch_JJC2261_Large_14k_gold_caduceus_Pendant___14kgoldpendants.htm
2006-09-30 17:03:46 · answer #7 · answered by junaidi71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋