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The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

Aesculapius. Engraving by I. Wagner after Antonio Maria (Girolamo) Zanetti and Antonio Maria (Alessandro) Zanetti.

Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.

Temple of Aesculapius at Cos, with a key to the buildings and a fragment of the Stoa. Oil painting by R. Caton, ca. 1906.

Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.

The infant Aesculapius discovered by shepherds on a mountain. Watercolour painting by R. Dadd, 1851.

Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.

A statue of a physician as Aesculapius whose shadow forms the shape of a donkey. Pen drawing by Gay-again, 1831.

Aesculapius. Etching by V. Dague after Vauthier.

A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.

Aesculapius. Engraving by G. Dala after G. Busato.

The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: cross-section showing the statue of the deity. Watercolour by G.M. Goring and E. Kenna, 1911, after A. Defrasse.

Antonius Musa as Aesculapius (?). Line engraving by I. Bonaiuti after G.B. Borani.

Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece : between craft and cult / Bronwen L. Wickkiser.

Epidauros : das Heiligtum des Asklepios / Text: Theodoros Papadakis ; Aufnahmen: Spyros Meletzis, Helen Papadakis.

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Aesculapius. Engraving by G. Dala after G. Busato.

The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: cross-section showing the statue of the deity. Watercolour by G.M. Goring and E. Kenna, 1911, after A. Defrasse.

Antonius Musa as Aesculapius (?). Line engraving by I. Bonaiuti after G.B. Borani.

Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece : between craft and cult / Bronwen L. Wickkiser.

Epidauros : das Heiligtum des Asklepios / Text: Theodoros Papadakis ; Aufnahmen: Spyros Meletzis, Helen Papadakis.