Hi guys. My name is Noah Tetsner and I host a podcast called The History of Vikings. It has been nearly 1,000 years since the last Vikings built settlements and carried out raids on the Christian kingdoms of Europe and still they continue to fascinate us.

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Episode 78, Healing and Medicine.

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And now let us turn our attention back to the ancient Greeks.

A Sclepius was a hero and demi-god of medicine, healing, rejuvenation, and physicians in both ancient Greek

myth and religion. According to tradition, he was believed to be the first physician as a son of Apollo, himself a god of medicine, and according to the earliest accounts, a mortal woman named Coronais.

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