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The cult of Asclepius inspired the creation of a guild of physicians, who called themselves Aslepiads.

Asclepius' death, as a result of his love for mankind, was not unlike that of Jesus. The beneficense and kindness that the Greeks attributed to him, that was portrayed in his statue, was carried over in the 5th Century A.D., when Christianity had become popular, in sculptural representations of Christ.

The same duality carried over into Roman medicine. Sufferers could be treated by either going to a lay physician, nearly all of whom were Greeks, or pray for relief to the pantheon of medical gods, headed by Apollo and Mars.

In the Old Testament, Jehovah is the sole arbiter of health. He could inflict a disease as a punishment for sin or cure a sufferer as a reward for devotion. For example, Job was afflicted with all sorts of ills, but was later rewarded for maintaining his faith by being completely cured.

Healing and the godhead are joined in the New Testament, also. Christ emerges as a healer with miraculous powers. The late Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychologist, has described Christ's figure as one of the archetypal images rooted in the subconscious of all people reared in the Christian tradition.

Christ was the first and original Christian Physician. He cured the lame, the blind, and the lepers. He was the prime psychiatrist, relieving men's minds of their uncertain ills.



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