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In the pictures now sent the snakes will be seen represented in congress in the well-known form of the Caduceus Esculapian rod.

I have only once seen living snakes in the form of the Esculapian rod.

The flaming double-edged critic's sword is sometimes changed in his hands, after a manner wonderful to relate, into an Esculapian staff, which farther suffers a frequent conversion into Mercurian caduceus and Bacchanile Thyrsus, and at another time assumes the proportions of Midas's wand.

Captain Lock was a sort of amateur medico, who prided himself on his Esculapian skill, and, although sorry to lose his surgeon's society, he evidently rather chuckled at the idea of having an opportunity to exercise his accomplishments.

For what calls thy disease, Lorenzo? not For Esculapian, but for moral aid.