<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> As god of the high - road and the market - place Hermes was perhaps above all else the patron of commerce and the fat purse: as a corollary, he was the special protector of the traveling salesman . As spokesman for the gods, he not only brought peace on earth (occasionally even the peace of death), but his silver - tongued eloquence could always make the worse appear the better cause . From this latter point of view, would not his symbol be suitable for certain Congressmen, all medical quacks, book agents and purveyors of vacuum cleaners, rather than for the straight - thinking, straight - speaking therapeutist? As conductor of the dead to their subterranean abode, his emblem would seem more appropriate on a hearse than on a physician's car . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Stuart L. Tyson, "The Caduceus", in The Scientific Monthly </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> As god of the high - road and the market - place Hermes was perhaps above all else the patron of commerce and the fat purse: as a corollary, he was the special protector of the traveling salesman . As spokesman for the gods, he not only brought peace on earth (occasionally even the peace of death), but his silver - tongued eloquence could always make the worse appear the better cause . From this latter point of view, would not his symbol be suitable for certain Congressmen, all medical quacks, book agents and purveyors of vacuum cleaners, rather than for the straight - thinking, straight - speaking therapeutist? As conductor of the dead to their subterranean abode, his emblem would seem more appropriate on a hearse than on a physician's car . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Stuart L. Tyson, "The Caduceus", in The Scientific Monthly </Td> </Tr>

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