Note 309 — Chapter XI · GODS ANALOGOUS TO ÆSCULAPIUS.
Reading edition
Possibly the first syllable of Æsculapius, like the Hebrew ishi, salutary, and asa, to heal, may have been from the Egyptian usha, health-bringing,—doctor. See Gerald Massey’s Book of Beginnings, vol. ii, p. 301. London, 1881.