Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints (1902)
D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · London : G. Bell & sons · leaf 88
r profession. Thesesymbols are: a transparent phial or jar, with or without acover, a lancet, a small case of instruments, a box of oint-ment, and a cylinder, the last-named supposed to representthe rod or wand occasionally placed in the hand of thoseabout to be bled, to facilitate the flow of… … •1: SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIANUS 55 and Damianus were early chosen as patrons by the Barber-surgeons of Paris. The martyrs were, of course, from the first supposed to lookafter the interests of doctors and dealers in drugs, and they arealso appealed to by midwives and by mothers whose childrensuffer…
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