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Christ as a pharmacist: medical symbols in German devotion
1Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|September 1, 1994
Abstract:
The author reports on two German publications [1,2] about the metaphoric use of medicines in Christian devotional literature and art in German society (16th to 19th century). Christ is depicted as a pharmacist dispensing 'medicines' which contain Christian virtues and symbols.