Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene (1891)
Sozinskey, Thomas S., 1852?-1889 · Philadelphia, London, F.A. Davis · leaf 132
ents notion of the modeof reception of the breath oflife.^ It even ai)pears on thetree of life in some of its conven-tional forms. Thus, La3ard sa3\s : The flowers at the end of thebranches are frequently replacedin later Assyrian monuments andon cylinders by the fir- or pine- cone, and sometimes… … Fig. 15.—The Pine- orCedar- Cone as 8een inTHE Hand of a WingedFigure from Nimroud. • Zoological Mythology, vol. i, p. 410. ^ See Gen., ii, 7. Hippocrates appears to take pneuma, the breath,and the soul and vital principle to be the same. It is still a common thingto hear the breath spoken of as…
Symbolism in medicine
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