NONPD: A.Word.A.Day--aesculapian

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: one of my daily 'fixes'  jp

>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:23:57 -0500
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>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--aesculapian
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>Aesculapian (es-kyuh-LAY-pee-ehn) adjective
>
>   Relating to the healing arts; medical.
>
>[From Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing in Roman mythology.]
>
>   "These apparitions, as is the nature of their kind, vanished as soon as
>   the crowing of the Aesculapian cock announced that the intellectual day
>   of Europe was on the point of breaking."
>   Draper, John William M.D., LL.D., History Of The Intellectual Development
>   Of Europe: Chapter IV. Part II, History of the World, 1 Jan 1992.
>
>This week's theme: words from Greek and Roman mythologies.
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