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Show Chaldean records, aside from those gardens and herbs mentioned in the Bible, are the earliest, 3500 B.C. The Sumerian civilization included in-cluded gardening, and along the banks of the Indus in the second and third centuries, B.C., the Dra-vidian Dra-vidian people of prehistoric India had developed a garden culture. . Priests, magicians and physicians of the school of Aesculopeus, founded in 1250 B. C. in Greece, carried on their staff of office the serpent-entwined rod, the codeu-cus, codeu-cus, still the badge of our physicians physic-ians today, the serpent representing represent-ing renewed life. |