Symbols of Medical Arts, (sculpture).

Symbols of Medical Arts, (sculpture).

Clement, Charles, 1921-1981, sculptor.

Atkinson, Terry, architect.

Symbols of Medical Arts, (sculpture).

Cast concrete, some colored, with inlaid pebbles.

Approx. 12 ft. x 22 ft. x 5 in.

Twenty-one historical medical symbols, positioned on a wall fifteen feet above ground level. Included is a human figure, representing man and Aesculapius, receiving the gifts of healing powers from Chiron; a lion, Assyrian symbol of protection; a Babylonian sheep's liver; a whip used by Mesopotamians to flagellate evil spirits from patients; an Egyptian Eye of Horus (or present day pharmaceutical RX symbol), additional Egyptian symbols; and a caduceus (from Classical antiquity, representing the staff of Aesculapius and entwined serpent).

Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Medicine

Architectural component

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arizona -- Tucson

Thomas Davis Medical Center, P. C., 630 North Alvernon, Tucson, Arizona 85711

The sculpture was at one point temporarily removed and later reinstalled, after the wall was enlarged and resurfaced. IAS files contain related article from Arizona Architect, March 1964, pg. 20-21.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona, Tucson survey, 1993.

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