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 134
the fir- or pine- cone, and sometimes bya fruit or ornament resembling the pomegranate.^ In connection with what he has to say about thecones on the tree of life, George Smith expresses theopinion that the Accadians brought the tradition of … Fig. 15.—The Pine- orCedak- Cone as Seen 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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