This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000 ...

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000 ...

In 1902, the U.S. Army Medical Corps adopted the Caduceus as its emblem. The symbol then began appearing more frequently in North American medical contexts, gradually becoming mistaken as the true ...

The medical symbol of serpents wrapped around a staff is a familiar one in the field, decorating pharmaceutical packaging and hospitals alike. Snake bites are generally bad news so the animal ...

The caduceus isn’t really the “official” symbol of the medical profession. That honor belongs to the Rod of Asclepius, a single serpent wrapped around a staff (with no wings).