It has, too, the great merit of accuracy (if we bear in mind the fact that it was not until after Aristotle that arteries and veins were differentiated), and indications are given as to the vessels from which blood may be drawn.
(9) The Works of Aristotle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Vol.
IV, 1910, Bk.

III, Chaps.

II-IV, pp.

511b-515b.
ASKLEPIOS No god made with hands, to use the scriptural phrase, had a more successful "run" than Asklepios--for more than a thousand years the consoler and healer of the sons of men.

Shorn of his divine attributes he remains our patron saint, our emblematic God of Healing, whose figure with the serpents appears in our seals and charters.