Symbols

Medicine is reprecented by the staff with a snake that curls around it. In old Mesopotamia these were the insignias of the God Ningichzida, and they were later also used in the greek mythiology for the healing god; Asclepion. By coming through the earth and houseing many healing substanses - the snake was given a sertain healing power. Under both these symbols there is a branch by medical plants.

Medisinska Föreningen has since the year 1922 looked at the four cardinal fluid colours as their own. Only the great people in medicine are allowed to wear them all at the same time, but the learners carry them two at a time. In the beginning you are crested by the phlegms white- and the bloods red colours, but later you advance to be allowed to wear the yellow and the black colours of the gall. Scientist students carry the yellow and the white colours.

The "four-fluid-science"'s, or humoral-patologins', greates spokesmen was Hippokrates (430-377 B.C) and Galenos (130-200 A.D). According to this teaching the body contained out of four fluids which were represented by the four elements who have the following qualities:

Phlegm - Water - Cold and moist
Blood - Air - Warm and moist
Yellow gall - Fire - Warm and dry
Black gall - Earth - Cold and dry

The body fluids were synthesized by the in-coming food through cooking and seperation in the stomache, the mesenterial tissue and the liver, after which they were brought out to the body by the blood leading veins. This was usualy treated by removal of the fluids that you had too much out of, by example through bloodletting.