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 177
,^ whiletwo nurses have her by the hands, doing what theycan to ease the pains of labor. Or, a representationof Pasht, Bubastis, or Sekhet, the sister of Horus andmother of Imhotep,—who generally appeared cat-headedbecause the cat, a most sacred animal, was consecratedto her,—would not be… … Fig. 26.—a Medi-cal SYMBOIi. » See Sharpes E}>:yptian Mythology, p. 19. Exodus, i, 16. Priucess, vol. i, p. 37. Medical Symbolism in Practice. 163 probably be few better than one in which prominencewere given to the good housewifery symbols,—the pes-tle, hatchet, and broom; those, respectively,…
Symbolism in medicine
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