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cm0002@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 4 days ago

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 4 days ago
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    4 days ago

    Wait, the symbol for medicine is snakes doing it?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine

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      Yes, but no. The correct symbol would be this one:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius

      But someone fucked up a hundred years ago and now we’re here.

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        Did they fuck up or fuck it up?

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          The modern use of the caduceus as a symbol of medicine became established in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century as a result of well-documented mistakes and misunderstandings of symbology and classical culture. Critics of this practice say that the correct symbol for medicine is the Rod of Asclepius, which has only one snake and no wings.

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            Man, why’s it feel like next your going to tell me the green cross badge my brother got in boyscouts wasn’t for smoking weed

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              No, that one is valid. I’ll light one for her.

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          Yes

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            obviously

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        wow!

        very interesting, never noticed they were two different symbols

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        +1 for arcane knowledge!

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      son, it’s time we talk

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