ESCULAPIUS. Aesculapius was the Latin god of medicine, son of Apollo and Coronis. The first temple, with a sanatorium, was erected to him in Rome in 293 B.C. During the medieval period, many works then current were attributed to him.

Esculapius appears in the Physician's catalogue of authorities, Gen Prol 429. The story of Apollo and Coronis is The Manciple's Tale.

The form of the name, medieval Latin and OF, is the development from Aesculapius, the classical Latin form of Greek Asclepius.