Aesculapian
adjEtymology From Aesculapius + -ian.
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Literally Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.
- The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice
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Figuratively Medical, concerning healing.
- Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa
- […]for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other[…]1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V: