Rod of Asclepius (English Wikipedia)

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Wilcox, Robert A; Whitham, Emma M (15 April 2003). "The symbol of modern medicine: why one snake is more than two". Annals of Internal Medicine. 138 (8): 673–7. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-138-8-200304150-00016. PMID 12693891. S2CID 19125435. Retrieved 15 June 2007.

This interpretation was current in Antiquity, as can be seen in an account of Apollodorus: "your marvel at the serpent curling around him and say that it is the symbol of the healing art, because just as the serpent sloughs the skin of old age, so the medical art releases from illness."^[9]^: 12
Farnell, Lewis Richard (1921). "Chapter 10, "The Cult of Asklepios"". Greek hero cults and ideas of immortality : the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the year 1920. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Sigerist, Henry Ernest (1987). "3, Religious medicine: Asclepius and his cult". A History of Medicine. Vol. 2: Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine. Oxford University Press. pp. 64, 65.
Sigerist, Henry Ernest (1987). "2, Homeric medicine". A History of Medicine. Vol. 2: Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine. Oxford University Press. pp. 27–28.

Wilcox, Robert A; Whitham, Emma M (15 April 2003). "The symbol of modern medicine: why one snake is more than two". Annals of Internal Medicine. 138 (8): 673–7. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-138-8-200304150-00016. PMID 12693891. S2CID 19125435. Retrieved 15 June 2007.

Wilcox, Robert A; Whitham, Emma M (15 April 2003). "The symbol of modern medicine: why one snake is more than two". Annals of Internal Medicine. 138 (8): 673–7. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-138-8-200304150-00016. PMID 12693891. S2CID 19125435. Retrieved 15 June 2007.

Wilcox, Robert A; Whitham, Emma M (15 April 2003). "The symbol of modern medicine: why one snake is more than two". Annals of Internal Medicine. 138 (8): 673–7. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-138-8-200304150-00016. PMID 12693891. S2CID 19125435. Retrieved 15 June 2007.

"Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus". UNESCO World Heritage Convention. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

Hart, Gerald David; Forrest, Martin St. J. (1999). Asclepius: The God of Medicine. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press. p. 42. ISBN 9781853154096. OCLC 42579033.
Lock, Stephen; Last, John M.; Dunea, George (2001). The Oxford Illustrated Companion To Medicine (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780192629500. OCLC 46678589. In early statues of Asclepius the rod and serpent were represented separately.
Jonsen, Albert R. (1990). The New Medicine and the Old Ethics. Harvard University Press. pp. 122, 123. ISBN 9780674617254. OCLC 21227464. Asklepios' reptile was a healing creature: in ancient mythology the snake, whose skin was shed and rejuvenated, symbolized eternity and restoration of life and health
Edelstein, Emma J; Edelstein, Ludwig, eds. (1975) [1945]. Asclepius: A Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 9780405070099. OCLC 2021782.
Schouten, Jan (1967). The Rod and Serpent of Asklepios, Symbol of Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 2. OCLC 657667. [...] the ancient conception of the serpent as the embodiment of the mystery of one absolute life of the earth, which entails a continual dying and resurrection [...] the combination of corruption and salvation, of darkness and light, of good and evil in the Asklepian symbol.
Menez, Andre (2003). The Subtle Beast, Snakes From Myth to Medicine. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 14. ISBN 9780415284981. OCLC 59462472.