Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book II.: XLVI. How a Man Who Cures Himself by an Oracle
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
When they would symbolize a man who cures himself by an oracle, they delineate a WOOD PIGEON CARRYING A BRANCH OF LAUREL; for this bird when sick deposits a branch of laurel in its nest, and recovers.