Asklepios, a mythical person, the son of Apollo and Coronis. His teacher of medicine was Chiron the centaur (also a teacher of Achilles)

Part o a relief: A patient and his family approaching the Medical God Asklepios

Votive relief of Archinos (370 BC). The healing god Asklepios appears to the dreamer to cure him

Asclepios was also entrusted to Chiron the centaur for a time, and learned medicine from him. The centaur baby-sitter and pedagogue appears in many myths, for reasons which are not by any means clear. ESP communications have been posited between animals and sensitive humans, especially the very young, and this may be a part of the picture, of which we have only a part. If the horse had an aversion to plants which are poisonous to men, or showed men where sources of salt, a rare material and a necessity to all mammals, existed, stories about the horse's medical knowledge might arise; William Harris, Domestication of Animals. Greek Myth

Asclepius,