aesculapian

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A hard worker, never strong, with an equally high-strung wife, he has naturally been drawn to Aesculapian cults, to the seamstress side of religion.

From Time Magazine Archive

But chaste Diana, who his death deplor'd, With Aesculapian herbs his life restor'd.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

The Aesculapian Society awarded him its first gold medal for an experimental inquiry on pus and mucus.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Suppose an universall Hot Pestilence beat her mortiferous wings Ore all my Kingdome, am I not bound in soule To empty all our Achademes of Doctors And Aesculapian Spirits to charme this plague?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)