Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.
Pengobatan dan penyembuhan dikaitkan padanya atau pada anaknya, Asklepios (dewa pengobatan), karena Apollo dipandang sebagai dewa yang membawa kesehatan, penyakit wabah.