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the weight of the eighteen carat gold of this ring is fifteen grams and seventy whistles.
the weight of this ring is 925 silver
it is ten grams and fifty whistles.
the image of serpents wrapped around a staff is a familiar one in the medical field, decorating pharmaceutical packaging and hospitals alike. snakes bites are generally bad news, and so the animal might seem ill-fitting as the symbol of the medical profession, but the ancient emblem actually has a quite a story behind it.
there are actually two versions of the symbol. the winged version is known as a caduceus, andthe stick is actually a staff that was carried by the olympian god hermes. in greek mythology, hermes was a messenger between the gods and humans (which explains the wings) and a guide to the underworld (which explains the staff). hermes was also the patron of travelers, which makes his connection to medicine appropriate because, in the olden days, doctors had to travel great distances by foot in order to visit their patients.