It was the Ancient Greek cult of Asclepius, dedicated to the Greek god of healing, that gave birth to Western medicine. It was in this dream/hypnosis cult that Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, practiced on the island of Kos. The caduceus, the staff with snakes around is symbolic of Asclepius and the Asklipian physician priests that carried a…
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