pharmacies and hospital uses a logo with two white snakes on a stick to represent their society, I would love to know why.
And please forgive my english mistakes, I am a french garl'
merci beaucoup, (thank you very much)
bat_france xxo
Sam64
It comes from when Moses dipped a snake in brass and hung it on a stick. (This was to represent Jesus.) There were some poisonous snakes in the area, and if you were bit you would be healed by simply looking to the brass snake.
Keith M
The caduceus is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine or doctors (instead of the rod of Asclepius) even though this is historically incorrect; its singularly inappropriate connotations of theft and commerce provided fodder for academic humor. A 1992 survey of American health organisations found that 62% of professional associations used the rod of Asclepius, whereas in commercial organisations, 76% used the caduceus.
The first recorded use of the caduceus in a medical context was in the printer's vignette used by Johann Frobenius, who used the staff entwined with serpents, not winged but surmounted by doves, with the biblical epigraph "Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves". A silver caduceus presented to Caius College, Cambridge by John Caius and carried before him on the cushion he supplied in official visits to the college remains in the College's possession. Early confusion between the symbols almost certainly arose due to the links between alchemy and Hermes, whose symbol is the caduceus. The alchemists adopted the caduceus because Hermes, the God of Messengers, was also the patron lord of gamblers, thieves, tricksters and alchemists. By the end of the 16th century, alchemy became widely associated with medicine in some areas, leading to some use of the caduceus as a medical symbol.
The main reason for the modern confusion over the symbols occurred when the caduceus was adopted by the Medical Department of the United States Army in 1902. It had appeared on the chevrons of Army hospital stewards as early as 1856. This was brought about by one Captain Reynolds, who after having the idea rejected several times by the Surgeon General, persuaded the new incumbent (W.H. Forwood) to adopt it. The inconsistency was noticed several years later by the librarian to the surgeon general, but was not changed. In 1901 the French periodical of military medicine was named La Caducée. After World War I the caduceus was employed as an emblem by the US Army Medical Department and Navy Hospital Corps.
There was further confusion caused by the use of the caduceus as a printer's mark (as Hermes was the god of eloquence and messengers), which appeared in many medical textbooks as a printing mark, although subsequently mistaken for a medical symbol.
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