This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000 ...

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings.

In 1902, the U.S. Army Medical Corps adopted the Caduceus as its emblem. The symbol then began appearing more frequently in North American medical contexts, gradually becoming mistaken as the true ...

There are actually two versions of the symbol. The winged version is known as a caduceus and the stick is actually a staff that was carried by the Olympian god Hermes.

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 ...

However, while the correct symbol for medicine features just one snake, the US is far from alone in mistakenly adopting the caduceus. Other nations currently using this alchemical impostor include ...

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.