Whoever started putting the ancient Greek icon on American public health officers’ uniforms had it confused with another snake-and-staff symbol. The caduceus is the “Born in the U.S.A.” of ...

In 1902, the U.S. Army Medical Corps adopted the Caduceus as its emblem. The symbol then began appearing more frequently in North American medical contexts, gradually becoming mistaken as the true ...

The medical ... symbol of the medical profession, but the ancient emblem actually has quite a story behind it. There are actually two versions of the symbol. The winged version is known as a ...

and the medical use of the caduceus has a very modern origin. The U.S. Army Medical Corps adopted it as their symbol in 1902 at the insistence of a single officer who probably assumed a medical ...

In the U.S., the caduceus took on a brand new meaning. Its misuse as a medical symbol seems to date to 1902 when it was added ...