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Hygieia, goddess of health, holding a pentangle and a staff encircled by a snake. Engraving by T. Galle, c. 1600.
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Hygieia, goddess of health, holding a pentangle and a staff encircled by a snake. Engraving by T. Galle, c. 1600.

Unknown artist

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Lettering: Sanitas. Intortus baculo serpens Epidaurius, impar/ Et quinquangulus hic, signa salutis habent

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