Word: aesculapius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing's knotty, Gothic Aesculapius (see cut). Most curious planes were observed in a plaster "diorama" entitled Reclamation of Eroded Farm Land (see cut), by Chicago's rugged old-timer Rudolph Weisenborn...
...site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body, apparently brought by invalids as votive offerings. Palestine. And when Jehu was come . . . Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window...
Three months later she dies of a septic abortion. The interne's friend and mentor (J. Edward Bromberg), a famed surgeon, appears to announce: "Jehovah and Aesculapius-they both demand their human sacrifices." The interne then makes up his mind what he is going to do with his life. Excellent scene, recommendable to those who will want to make a cinema out of Men in White: the operating theatre, with the attendants meticulously scrubbing and rinsing themselves...
This identity of religion and medicine goes back to man's earliest thought. The Babylonians had no doctors as such. Nor for a long time did the Egyptians. And it was a long time before some of the priests of Aesculapius set up a separate medical guild outside the temple walls on the Island of Cos, and a longer time before the guild admitted laymen. Hippocrates (400-359 B. C.) was the Father of Medicine. His medicine was pragmatic, had nothing to do with theology...