Asclepius or Hepius, son of Apollo, is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts.
His daughters are Hygieia, the goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, Iaso, the goddess of recuperation from illness, Aceso, the goddess of the healing process, Aegle, the goddess of the glow of good health, and Panacea, the goddess of universal remedy. The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff is the symbol of medicine. Physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.
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