a.; also Esc-. [f. next + -AN.] Of or belonging to Æsculapius (the god of medicine), or to the healing art; medicinal.
1622. Massinger, Virg. Mart., IV. i. Turn o’er all the volumes or your mysterious Æsculapian science.
1792. D. Lloyd, Voy. Life, V. 107.
| That Æsculapian art could not restore | |
| The springs and movements into harmony. |
1843. Bethune, Scott. Peasant’s Fire-side, 4. The time at which Roland Bridges began his Esculapian labours.
