Goddess in Greek mythology, personification of health

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A young woman as Hygieia (Health). Stipple engraving by C. Taylor, 1789, after S. Shelley.

Louis Pasteur, with two dogs (referring to his work on rabies), a palm and a snake around a bowl (indicating achievement in hygiene). Chromolithograph.

Bad Kreuth, Bavaria: the healing spring, and monument to King Maximilian I of Bavaria. Lithograph by F. Lacroix, 1828, after C. Heinzmann after J.-B. Métivier.

Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.

A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.

Hygieia. Oil painting, 18--.

An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.

Hygieia as a personification of hygiene: a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background; advertising an exhibition in Düsseldorf on health and welfare. Colour lithograph after L. ten Hompel, 1926.

Aesculapius and Hygieia. Engraving by C.P.P. Carloni after T. Matteini.

An ivory diptych containing sculptures of Aesculapius with Telesphorus and of Hygieia with Cupid. Engraving by R. Morghen.

Hygieia stands before a pyramid engraved with the names of famous figures in the history of medicine. Etching by B. Hübner, 1777.

A woman personifying Flanders gladly receives Ferdinand of Spain as he enters the country on horseback. Etching by T. van Thulden after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Cultul lui Esculap şi al Higiei (cu specială privire la Dacia Superioară) / de Nicolae Igna.

An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving by Crispijn de Passe, 1626.

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Hygieia

Images from the collections

Images featuring Hygieia

Works from the collections

A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.

A woman personifying Flanders gladly receives Ferdinand of Spain as he enters the country on horseback. Etching by T. van Thulden after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Cultul lui Esculap şi al Higiei (cu specială privire la Dacia Superioară) / de Nicolae Igna.

An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving by Crispijn de Passe, 1626.

Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.

Hygieia

Images from the collections

Images featuring Hygieia

Works from the collections

A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.

A woman personifying Flanders gladly receives Ferdinand of Spain as he enters the country on horseback. Etching by T. van Thulden after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Cultul lui Esculap şi al Higiei (cu specială privire la Dacia Superioară) / de Nicolae Igna.

An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving by Crispijn de Passe, 1626.

Edward Jenner's surname made out of letters representing Aesculapius sending Hygieia to the four continents to disseminate Jenner's discovery of vaccination against smallpox. Watercolour by Miss Paytherus.

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