Pointing out that even doctors in the United States were wrongly using Caduceus as a symbol of medicine for long, he said that the mistake had been corrected now. However, ...

THE following paragraph is found in the scholarly work of O. H. Perry Pepper1:The Caduceus used as the symbol of the medical profession in America, was the staff of Mercury, the Roman god of trade ...

The symbol originated by Asclepius is often confused with the Caduceus, which includes a similar staff or rod, with two snakes and wings, as shown in Figure 2.