aesculapian

The discovery of Aesculapian snakes, from southern and central Europe, led national newspapers to claim earlier this year they could strangle small pets.

A hard worker, never strong, with an equally high-strung wife, he has naturally been drawn to Aesculapian cults, to the seamstress side of religion.

Aesculapian Ð relating to medicine.

But chaste Diana, who his death deplor'd, With Aesculapian herbs his life restor'd.

The greatest name in medical science in ancient or in modern times, the man who did the most to advance it, the greatest medical genius of whom we have any early record, was Hippocrates, born on the island of Cos, 460 B.C., of the great Aesculapian family.