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Hygea "The First Nurse," 1933

National Library of Medicine

Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.
  • A White female dressed Classically as Hygeia, pouring the contents of a vase on an altar.

  • Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

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    Post Card
    [Stamp] United States Postage Franklin 1 Cent 1
    [Postmark]Boston Mass. May 15 10:30 PM 1933. Address your mail to street and number
    Correspondence
    Address
    Hygea – from the drama "Aesculapius" presented on the 50th anniversary of the Ring Sanatorium.
    Ring Sanatorium and Hospital, Inc. Arlington Heights, Massachusetts Eight miles from Boston Telephone Arlington 0081
    For the treatment of Circulatory Metabolic, Nervous and Mild Mental Diseases; Alcohol and Drug Addictions.
    [Handwriting] Zatae L. Strait, M.D. 795 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire.

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