The notion of “panacea” has long captured the human imagination. In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of healing. She was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine, who was the son of Apollo the physician and a mortal woman. With the blood of Gordon, Asclepius can bring the dead back to life, which angered the gods and culminated in his downfall.
Panacea was said to have a potion that can cure any disease. She has four sisters and four brothers, most of whom have flair for treatment. In a woodcut of Veronese physician J Gazola, they administered medicine to a sick baby. Her name appears in the Hippocratic Oath, the most famous text in medicine written nearly 2,500 years ago. In those days, many alchemists who searched for elixir or the philosopher’s stone that was capable of turning metal into gold…
