In the hope of health

 Let us then receive these things, as well as those which Aesculapius prescribes. Many as a matter of course even among his prescriptions are disagreeable, but we accept them in the hope of health. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 5.

Aesculapius 2nd century CE copy of 4th century BCE original by Timotheos that I photographed at The Louvre in Paris.  

A sculpture of the healing god Aesculapius with the head of Homer that I photographed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome.  

Statue of a young Roman depicted as Asclepius, from Formiae, 2nd century AD, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen courtesy of Carole Raddato

Asclepius God of Medicine, Healing and Rejuvenation, Roman, that I photographed at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome.

Statue of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing, holding the symbolic Rod of Asclepius with its coiled serpent, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen courtesy of Carole Raddato