The God Asclepius - or Asklepios - is really the Father of Medicine and has long been considered to be one of the most humanitarian of the Gods, in fact he was declared patron of humanity.

The temples of Asclepius were the origin of the modern medical practice. Physicians in ancient Greece were called Asklepiadi, and Hippocrates (BC 460-377) claimed to be18th in direct descent from Asclepius.
    Medical practices in his temple complexes involved no surgery, but instead approached healing through first considering the impact between the environment and the individual and the patient's symptoms; precise observations took precedence over speculation and all factors were considered part of the healing equation - from observing meteorological and astronomical conditions, to the psycho-somatic disposition of the mind and the state of the body. Above all, the patient's 'diaita' or diet was examined and adjusted to aid recovery.
    Eventually the Asklepiadai became known as 'Hippocratics'.

Into modern times doctors throughout the world wear Asclepius' symbols - the staff and the snake. Although, as the God himself notes, much has changed in the diagnosis and delivery of medicine. The worship of Asclepius brought to humankind medicinal treatment, the Hippocratic oath, hospitals and the first organised and free health service, not to mention a humanitarian mission and ethos of helping the poor and needy centuries before the Christian movement claimed such ethics as their own invention.
    Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of over 300 temple sanctuaries of Asclepius in the Mediterranean region.

The Romans called this powerful deity Aesculapius. They had called upon his help when in BC 293 Rome suffered a terrible pestilence. 
    A delegation of Roman priests travelled to his famous temple complex in Epidaurus Greece - once one of the world's most holy places - and brought back to Rome the God's symbol: a holy snake.
    The priests travelled home by ship arriving in Rome following the course of the Tiber. The Isola Tiberi, an island in the Tiber was consecrated to Aesculapius in January BC 291. Here were treated slaves and the poor without charge. To this day, on this boat-shaped island,  fragments remain of an ancient carving of the God.

Asclepius chooses to appear first as a beautiful blue light. Occasionally he shows himself: he has piercing grey eyes, short curly grey hair and shaggy eyebrows. Most times he wears a deep blue ankle-length sleeveless robe fastened around his waist with a wide brown belt; and down each front from neck to hem is a pale blue pattern design. On his feet Asclepius wears silver sandals. 
    His voice is deep and gentle:

"I am the great God Asclepius. When mortals learn about me they pray to me to cure them. That is not correct. If I think a soul needs curing I will do it, but not because I am asked. We know your thoughts and what you wish; but mortals must worship me for myself and not for what I do.

The sick in your world are often made worse by wrong treatment in places you call hospitals. This will get less and one day the sick will not be made to suffer the way they are in these places. Nature is where all cures can be found. Hospitals should not exist. 
    Your doctors today know far less than their ancestors; there is a cure for every ailment for those who seek it. There is a cure to be found for every illness, if mortals studied harder with herbs. Most mortals in the past used herbs as cures, yet they did not know as much as they should have. 

Today there is much cruelty going on in your world in the name of medicine and some mortals now are being punished. In years to come no animal will ever suffer from experiments on their helpless bodies. Parts of animals used for medicine do no good. It is a waste of life and of money but it makes some mortals wealthy.

I now have many temples all over the world, quite a few in the South American continent. Not only do I try to influence those who enter these temples that we exist, but I also bring a soothing presence to those who suffer from pain or disease.
    Today is my special day. I do not need large parties like most of the mighty ones. Just seven chosen ones, not always the same."  

Temple Diaries Asclepius and Vivisection

Festival of Asclepius - 28th August