A disciple of Esculapius means a medical student. Esculaʹpian, medical. Esculaʹpios, in Homer, is a “blameless physician,” whose sons were the medical attendants of the Greek army. Subsequently, he was held to be the “god of the medical art.”
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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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