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 143
s is not outof the way. The mode of rep-resenting it at Rome and else-where strongly supports thisview, namely, encircling thealtar of the goddess, with the head extending over it.^In Teutonic mythology, the white lady with the snake was associated with medicinal springs. According to the… … FiG.18.—Hygeia. (Asgivenin Murrays Mythology.) Eygeia^ the Goddess of Health. 127 her personal history one might almost sa}^ that it is ablank. Numerous representations of Hygeia were to befound in Greece, and later in Rome. One was usuallyplaced by the side of each of ^sculapius. The worship of…
Symbolism in medicine
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