Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Nicolas Poussin and Marianne North. Why medicine uses the serpent, the staff, the cup and the cross: the symbols of healing traced through Egypt, Greece, Rome and the middle ages to the apothecary's sign. Thomas Sozinskey was a Philadelphia physician with antiquarian interests. It is a small book on a subject nobody else had gathered, and the illustrations of shop signs and seals are half its value.