Seventeenth-century illustrated title page featuring snakes, including the single-snake staff of Asclepius and the double snake of the caduceus with other ancient medical and mythological images involving snakes. Marco Aurelio Severino. Vipera Pythia. (Patavii: Typis Pauli Frambotti, 1651). NLM call number WZ 250 S498v 1651.

Marco Aurelio Severino. Viper Pythia. (Patavii: Typis Pauli Frambotti, 1651.)

On this 17th-century title page, the single-snake staff of Asclepius and the double snake of the caduceus appear with other ancient medical images involving snakes.

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