Okay, so that origin story is not so interesting. Some experts say the sign began 5, years ago in Egypt. At that time, people prayed to Horus, the god of the Sun.
Legend says that when Horus was a child, Seth, the demon of evil, attacked him. When Seth put out the eye of the young Horus, the mother of Horus called for help. Thoth, the god of learning and magic, answered her cries. With his wisdom and special powers, Thoth healed the eye of Horus and the child was able to see again.
The ancient Egyptians used a picture of the eye of Horus as a magic sign to protect themselves from disease, suffering and evil. Long after the collapse of ancient Egypt, doctors and scientists in Europe continued to use the sign. But over the years, it changed from the eye of Horus to the sign for Jupiter, the chief god of the Romans. Over time, that sign also changed. So, that is what the symbol means even though we cannot guarantee how it came to be. To make it up to you , we give you a useful, medicine-related expression.
Now, when a doctor prescribes a patient medicine, it is only for that patient, no one else. Giving someone a taste of their own medicine sounds like the right thing to do. A person is supposed to take the medicine a doctor has prescribed for them. When you give someone a taste of their own medicine, you treat them as they have treated you. And we almost always use this expression when talking about bad treatment.
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