Schouten, J. — De slangestaf van Asklepios symbool der geneeskunde.
A'dam/Meppel: Brocades-Stheeman & Pharmacia [1963]; 216pp., index, bibliogr., 62 bl-wh ills., lge 8vo, decor. cloth. Good copy. ¶ l Trade ed. of Ph.D. thesis Univ. of Leyden, in Dutch (w. a summary in English) on the symbol of serpent-staff as signs of the indestructable life of the earth, dating from the 6th c. BP. An important, richly illustrated standard work which has been translated into English in 1967 (Elsevier). Author was director of the Gouda museums. Preface bij G.A. Lindeboom, historian of medicine, Free University of Amsterdam.