The Snake Is a Symbol of Medicine

There are also two main reasons why the snake has become a symbol in the medical field. In the book of numbers, after the people lose their faith in the wilderness and start speaking out against god and moses, god sends fire snakes to bite people. There is a biblical root to one of the primary reasons that the snake is associated with the symbology for medicine. The other reason is the metaphor of a snake shedding its skin and going from old and weary to young and new again,. But it sounds smart to people who don't know sure anything. Anyway, owen is just ma up a bunch dumb shit. Or maybe he read it on a dumb log and he's parroting