The World Health Organization has chosen its logo, which is a stick with a snake coiled around it. Who was associated with the Greek god Asclepius, who is the god of medicine and healing for the drowned, and who was depicted in art carrying a stick around which a snake was wrapped. He was also known for saving souls and was called the healer. Many temples were built for him in the city of Epidaros, so the patients used to make pilgrimages to his temple, and they would stay in it for days in the hope of healing. healing. The god Asclepius had five daughters, including the healing goddess Hygia; The goddess of health and public hygiene. As for the Romans, they believed in the principle of prevention is better than cure. So... they tended to establish public baths and spend long periods in them for the purpose of healing, bodily rest, and entertainment. The Romans took into account that health had a goddess that embodied concern for the safety of the body, so they took the goddess Salus as a goddess of healing and the embodiment of physical and mental health.
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