What is "aesculapius"

Usage examples of "aesculapius".

Then he exchanged a few words in Greek with an invisible gentleman called Aesculapius, and turned to the Wart.

He was old, as old as the veins of the earth, which were serpents like him, and Aesculapius with a beard as white as glaciers was lulling him to sleep.

After death, Aesculapius was raised to divine rank and became the god of medicine.

I shall exercise my skill in dentistry for trifling rewards, and you, my young Aesculapius, will prove to others, as you have already proved to me, that the strong wrist and willing arm are not lacking among your personal endowments.

Galen led the way out of the room into the hall where the mosaic floor and plastered walls presented colored temple scenes--priests burning incense at the shrine of Aesculapius, the sick and maimed arriving and the cured departing, giving praise.

The march of science, which had been stopped by the local fogs of Todos Santos some fifty years, had not disturbed the simple Aesculapius of the province with heterodox theories: he still purged and bled like Sangrado, and met the priest at the deathbed of his victims with a pious satisfaction that had no trace of skeptical contention.

The legendary fate of Aesculapius is ironic, for it represents the first statement that good medical care could lead to population problems.

Pluto complained to Zeus, who eliminated Aesculapius with a thunderbolt.

McDermott had removed his sheepskin jacket and I saw the insignia of the Army Medical Corps, the serpent of Aesculapius, on his battledress.

Eutaktos grew angry, shouting that Aesculapius would not have employed such words to describe the goddess.

I am happy to learn, however, that Aesculapius is subject to the goddess in this part of the world.

There is Aesculapius, whom this child says you have petitioned already.

But Aesculapius was closer to their minds than Athene, and the crown they had prepared for his head was a light metal frame trailing leads to a complex encephalograph.

I felt an almost maddening joy in listening to her, and I thought the oracle of AEsculapius a thousand times more reliable than that of Apollo.

But in the intervals of study, he personally conversed with Pan, Aesculapius, and Minerva, in whose mysteries he was secretly initiated, and whose prostrate statues he adored.