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It is tempting, also, to connect the Asclepian snake cult with the prominence of the serpent in Minoan religion. The earliest medical school of which we have definite information is that of Cnidus, a Lacedaemonian colony in Asiatic Doris.
But a word of caution must be added. Such temple worship has been compared with modern psycho-analysis. That method, like all methods, has doubtless been abused at times; but it is in essence, unlike the temple system, a purely scientific process by which the ultimate basis of the patient's delusions are laid bare and demonstrated to him. There is indeed another side to these Asclepian temples.
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