Symbols caduceus

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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. 

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... 

One of the main subjects of the Hermetica is medicine, and in a series of texts Hermes instructs Asclepius, the semi-divine healer of Greek mythology. The Staff of Asclepius, a stick with a snake winding up it, is the international symbol for medicine, and Hermes Caduceus, with two snakes, has also become widely used as a medical symbol. The perfect equihbrium symboHsed by the Caduceus is the aim of aU hoHstic medicine. Thus all alchemists, as Sons and Daughters of Hermes consider themselves healers, and often refer to the Stone itself as the Universal Medicine. Jabir Ibn Hayyan [721-815], Michael Maier [1568-1622], and Robert Fludd [1574-1670], were all notable physicians as well as legendary alchemists. 

For a review, see Wilcox Whitham 2003 on the related Caduceus symbol (two snake twisted around a rod), which was occasionally used by pharmacists, see Fried-lander 1992. 

Friedlander, W.J. 1992, The Golden Wand of Medicine A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine, Greenwood, New York. 

Quicksilver, as its name implies, is alive and active corresponding to Mercury the nimble messenger of the gods. Its symbol, regarded as the caduceus or wand of Mercury, embodied the sign of the cross, surmounted by the circle of perfection and the crescent of... 

FIGURE 99. Title page (hand-colored see color plates) from Liber de Arte Distillandi (Heironymous Brunschwig, 1512), depicting a double-still in which the central tower contains cooling water that is continuously replenished. Come to think of it, this apparatus evokes an image of the caduceus two serpents entwined about the staff of Hermes where the loops symbolize couplings. (From the Othmer Library, CHF.)... 

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