Devaux Guy
Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 2010 Apr;58(365):73-80.
Emblem chosen by the Parisian apothecaries, the symbol of the Palm tree, the Snake and Rocks reminds that the pharmaceutical skills concern three reigns of the nature from which arise the constituents of medicines. The hypothesis according to which Nicolas Houel was at the origin of this emblem when he was at the head of the Parisian community in 1556 is advanced, whereas an extension of its symbolic reach is looked for. The analysis of the symbolic senses associated with the snake, with the palm tree and with the rocks directs to a religious interpretation of the symbol in a Christian prospect.
巴黎药剂师所选用的标志，棕榈树、蛇与岩石的象征，让人想起制药技艺涉及自然界的三个领域，药物成分即源于此。有一种假说认为，1556年尼古拉斯·胡埃尔在担任巴黎同业公会会长时是这个标志的创造者，同时人们也在探寻其象征意义的延伸。对与蛇、棕榈树和岩石相关的象征意义的分析，导向了从基督教视角对该标志的宗教解读。
