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The Latin form of the Greek word Asklēpios, the god of medicine and of healing. Now used for “a medical practitioner.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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