But the wings of the Caduceus is the point— they are ftom the Cockatrix , a half bird half reptile which purportedly can kill you with its glance as Shakespeare wrote “ the darting eye of the Cockatrix”.
One should question why a “death bird” becomes part of the symbol of medicine. Here is the Cockatrix, as seen adorning the Belvedere castle in NYC:
And a famous car logo with a reptile eating a human.
We are taught in biology that the primal most fundamental part of the human brain— that part you cannot damage and still function, the part that controls your heart rate, breathing, and primary instinctual behavior—is the Reptilian brain:
And as a final cool point, the former tsarist crest of the Romanovs featuring St. George slaying a dragon.