The staff and serpent familiar as the mark of medicine was that of Aesculapious. the Roman god of medicine. identified with the Greek god of healing. Asklepios. More scientifically. Hippocrates of ancient Greece is today known as "the father of medicine." as Herodotus is called "the father of history." The contributions of the Greeks to life today are not. however. only those of the past glories of ancient Greece. brought down through the ages. There are those brought to us by the Greek immigrants to the United States. They averaged less than 10 a year until 1870 and did not begin to increase appreciably until the early 20th century. There are in this country today some million and a half Americans of Greek origin.
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