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Symbol History Sticks and Snakes World Medica caduceus and the staff of Aesculapius. You must already very familiar with the medical symbol is a stick with a snake around it. When asked what the name of this symbol, most will respond with 'caduceus' and others as 'staff of Aesculapius'. One of these names is in fact misleading and will be explained why. Staff of Aesculapius symbolized by a stick with a snake tail around it, while the caduceus symbolized by a stick with two snakes around it and added a pair of wings on the left-right (see the figure). Staff of Aesculapius (also called the 'rod of Aesculapius') refers to a stick Greek god of healing and medicine called Asclepius. While the caduceus is a handheld wand Hermes, the Greek god protector traders. So the true symbol of medicine actually is a "staff of Aesculapius'. But because it happened 'misguided', the symbol 'caduceus' it is widely used in North America as a symbol of the medical world. Why is used to refer to the symbol of the serpent healing arts and medicine (medicine) this? It is said that at the time of Hippocrates (father of medicine) are living, those who are ill will be placed in the temple of healing (healing temple) named 'Asclepieion'. In this temple of the hall was a poisonous snake wander are maintained as part of the ritual of healing the patient. Can (poison) snake was of yore symbolize life and death. Poison (venom) is when you enter a blood vessel will turn off (fatal), but when taken to a medicine to cure a number of diseases. Rod and serpent symbol (staff of Aesculapius) is used by people from around the 1600s. But the history of the temple refers to the treatment of ancient Greece was not necessarily recognized all medical historians. There is another theory which is believed to be the origin of the symbol is a stick and a snake. She comes from tapeworm disease that disproportionately affects men ages past, particularly in the Mediterranean region and the African continent. Tapeworm name is Dracunculus medinensis (meaning 'little dragon from Medina') as in the city of Medina was the first widely contagious disease and its lay name is Guinea worm, because the worm was first widely breed on the coast of Guinea, West Africa. Guinea worm disease is so terrible. Once the larvae enter the stomach through contaminated drinking water, he grows into adult tapeworms. Tapeworms are usually males will die, but the females tapeworms can reach lengths of up to one meter, will penetrate the intestinal wall and wander up below the skin surface. There he'll make the ulcers that cause extreme pain. Through the holes in this ulcer, guinea worm will release some of the members of his body to lay eggs. Ulcers hole locations are usually in the legs, the arms, on the trunk (torso), in the buttocks and genitals. Worm limbs protruding portion is not easy to be pulled out with a hand full of sufferers. When his severed portion in the body of the patient, it will cause an infection that resulted in toxic case of arthritis in the joints and paralysis when it occurs in the spinal cord. Therefore, for the 'fishing' this tapeworm, locals wearing traditional manner deemed effective since hundreds of years ago. Tapeworm limbs sticking out of the hole ulcers twisted with a stick is small. Periodically, these twigs rolled carefully so that more and more members of the body of this worm are uprooted. Just like the thread of the kite. In fiction 'Dutch Wife' written by Eric McCormack, portrayed with a realistic fruit sellers in the market shirtless and occasionally small twigs twisted fingers that seemed stuck in his stomach. This excerpt narrative novel 'Dutch Wife' on 'guinea worm': One morning early we went down to the market. At the busiest fruit stall, the stallkeeper was a big man, naked to the waist. He had a twig, a few inches long, somehow stuck to the surface of his belly. While he was talking to my friend about the freshness of the cantaloupes and the oranges, his fingers would occasionally go to the twig. He'd give it a little slow twirl, the way you wind a wristwatch. (One morning we went to the market. At a fruit stall seller large man shirtless. Was sized twigs that look several inches sticking in his stomach. Kantalop While she offers fruit and citrus, occasional small twig fingers touched it. He will slowly twisting , as if we turned the clock). It is said that a small overview of twigs and worms are entwined in it which was the inspiration for the symbol of the medical world. Diseases that have plagued mankind for centuries has now been almost eradicated. Thanks to the World Health Organization campaign tireless, dracunculiasis (medinensis Dracunculus worm disease) had almost disappeared from the face of the earth. Maybe by looking at the symbol of medicine we can remember that there once was a time of horror disease caused by guinea worm.

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