On this stamp the symbol for medicine is
incorrect. The "proper" medical symbol is the staff of Aesculapius (or
Aesclepios in Greek) with a single serpent entwined around a cypress
branch, not the caducceus of Hermes which is two entwined serpents
around Hermes' staff.
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This error and its counterpart, the use of
the staff of Aesculapius for the caducceus of Hermes is often made on
stamps.
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