Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 64-65. (Budapest, 1972)

KISEBB KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Varannai, Gyula: Aszklepiosz a magyar éremművészetben (angol nyelven)

Fig. 7 Fig. 8 the son to have a beard when his father Apollo is beardless on all presentations. (Fig. 9.) On the bronze medal minted to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Royal Medical Association of Budapest in 1937 the presentation of Asklepios corresponds to the rituals of classical mythology in all details. Walter Madarassy applied neoclassical puritan simplicity and elegance for the emblem of the association founded in the age of Classicism. Following the Pergamon convention the bearded Asklepios's head is wreathed with theristion, his feet are in sandals, his right shoulder is uncovered, his left is holding the rod with the serpent, while a papyrus symbolising the profession of the Association is held by his right. (Fig. 10.) In 1948, on the coin of the ophthalmologist Ferenc Korchmáros, Ferenc Csúcs depicted a rustic, heavy Aesculap with the serpent twining upwards on a thick