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Excerpt from The Health and Wealth of the City of Wheeling: Including Its Physical and Medical Topography; Also, General Remarks on the Natural Resources of West Virginia
Another legend, recorded by Plutarch, relates that while the vestibule of the Athenian citadel was being built, under the administration of Pericles, one of the most skillful workmen, missing his step, fell from the top to the bottom, and was so severely injured that his life was despaired of by the physicians. At this accident Pericles was greatly concerned; but in the midst of his af?iction the goddess appeared to him in a dream and informed him of a remedy, which he applied, and thereby soon recovered the patient; and in memory of this cure he placed in the citadel, near the altar, a brazen statue of the goddess, con ferring upon her the name of Hygeia, or the Minerva of Health.
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