Caduceus

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Eberly, John. We can build you the homunculus in alchemical tradition. Caduceus- The Hermetic Quarterly 3, no. 1 (Spring 1997) 23-33. 

McLean, Adam. Hermetic meditation Number 6. Mercury or the Caduceus. Hermetic J, no. 6 (Winter 1979) 10. 

Friedlander, Walter J. The golden wand of medicine a history of the caduceus symbol in medicine. New York Greenwood P, 1992. 181p. ISBN 0-313-28023-1... 

Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural powers. As a snake and staff symbol it is also traditionally associated with the healing arts, either as the single-snake emblem of Asklepios, or as the double-snake emblem (caduceus) of Hermes. The mythological basis for this symbolism is reviewed. 

These are also the two serpents sent by Juno, who is the metallic nature, which the strong Hercules, that is to say, the Sage, was to strangle in his cradle I mean to conquer and to kill, to make them decay, rot and engender at the beginning of his work. These are again the two serpents attached to the caduceus of Mercury, with which he exercised his great power and transformed himself as he wished. 

SERPENT. - In general, same significaiton as the dragon. Three serpents, the three principles. The two serpents of the caduceus signify Sulphur and Mercury. A winged serpent, the volatile principle deprived of wings, the fixed principle. A crucified serpent fixation of the volatile. A serpent with several heads represents the three principles emanating from one universal matter or cosmic ether. 

H. M. Dingwall, Making up the medicine, apothecaries in 16th and 17th-century Edinburgh , Caduceus, 1994, 10, 121-130. 

Marr JS, Malloy CD An epidemiologic analysis of the ten plagues of Egypt. Caduceus 1996 12 7-24. 

Konert, Jurgen. Academic and Practical Medicine in Halle during the Era of Stahl, Hoffman, and Juncker. Caduceus 13, 1997, 23-38. 

CADUCEUS — The Chemical Philosophers have given to their dissolvent the name of the Caduceus of Mercury, because they affirm that the makers of the classical fable in question intended to indicate the dissolvent by the symbol of the Caduceus. The Caduceus is composed of... 

Is this not at the same time a way of evoking the caduceus Of recognizing in Mercurius the ideal mediator, capable of unlocking antagonistic dualisms that bear witness to a schizomorphic, and... 

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