Asclepios
Asclepios, Aesculapios in latin, was the son op Apollo and god of the Medicins. Once there was a
shepherd in Turkey, who was looking after his sheps when a snake
bit him in his leg. He had much pain and he went to a Asclepion, a
hospital, nearby Pergamum.
When he arrived there he asked for help, but the medicin
answered:'This is a hospital for spiritual handicapts. But we can
give you a poison that you will die faster.' They gave him the
poison but he didn't die, the two poisons, the one of the snake and
the one of the Ascepion, stoped each other. From that moment the
medicin sign is a stick with a snake surrounded and a bassin on top
of it.