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Saliva
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ SALIVA  vern SPIT from
^u        gr PTYALON = SALIVA
  id+ | SECRETION THAT SOAKS FOOD
        WITH DIGESTIVE ENZYMES |
  ukr SLUNA  = same              sug> SLIME
      SLIMAK   SNAIL             sug> SLIP
  gr  SIALON   or                sug> SLIDE
      PTYALON  SALIVA            sug> SLUSH
  sp  MOCO    MUCUS              sug> MUCOUS
      MOCOSO  "KID"              sug> MUCK
  med> A CLEAR ORAL VISCOUS or VISCOSE
       SLIGHTLY ALKALINE SECRETION EXCRETED BY
  THE PAROTID and SUBMAXILLARY and SUBMANDIBULAR or
  SUB LINGUAL and other MUCOUS GLANDS
  THE DIGESTIVE ENZYMES SUCH AS
  ALPHA AMYLASE AND MUCINE
  LUBRICATE and PERMEATE or SOAK FOOD
  BEFORE SWALLOWING TRANSFORMING    sug>  MALT
  STARCH INTO DEXTRINE or MALTOSE   sug>  MALTA
  lit+ SALIVATION implies DESIRE    sug> AMELIORATE
 
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