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Latest revision as of 16:45, 23 April 2010
Aescelepsius, the Greek god of medicine, is often pictured with a staff around which is entwined an Aesculapian snake (Elaphe longissima). These snakes were kept in hospitals and temples of the ancient Greeks and the Romans.