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Physician with Young PatientThis plaster cast from ca. 350 B.C.E. shows a physician examining a child, while Asclepius, the god of healing, observes. Asclepius holds a staff with a snake coiled around it, which remains the symbol of medicine today. This cast was made through a process known as intaglio, in which the picture was carved onto a cylinder-shaped gemstone, then rolled across wet clay to produce the image. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)> PICTURING THE PASTANALYZING THE IMAGE: How is the physician diagnosing the health or illness of the child?CONNECTIONS: Given what you have read about Hellenistic medicine, why might the artist have included the god Ascelpius in this scene?