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Printed on recto of mount, left margin: Keystone View Company/ Copyright Underwood & Underwood/ Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers. Printed on recto on mount, right margin: Meadville, Pa. New York, N.Y., Portland, Oregon, London,Eng., Sydney, Aus. Printed on recto on mount, lower right: (53)-9319- Tholos in the sanctuary of Aesculapius, god of healing-- theatre/ at S.E., Epidauros, Greece. Printed on recto, on mount, upper center: 53. Printed on verso, on mount: 9319. "This sanctuary of the healing god Aescula-/pius,-- which is always spoken of as the Hieron,-- is us/ually visited by the carriage from Nauplia. The setting of/ the jewel, and the mountains that surround this upland val-/ley, make it a spot to be long remembered./ We look southeast towards the theatre, backed up into the range of hills called Kynortion. Close by the/ theatre is a white building which is a museum and a house for the officials who have conducted excavations./ Marble tablets found all over the Hieron record mar-/velous cures. * * * Patients from all parts of Greece/ came and slept in a long dormitory (behind us) and the mild god appeared to them in dreams. The presence/ of the sick one was not absolutely necessary. One/ tablet records that the mother of a girl in Sparta, suf-/fering from dropsy, came and slept in the dormitory and/ she saw the god approach her daughter, cut off her head,/ pour out the water from her neck,and replace the head./ The mother returned to Sparta and found her daughter/ cured! These veracious histories appear to have been/ very numerous. The names of the healed were always/ given. What shall we say of all this? * * * That/ people were cured of some troubles by staying in this/ upland valley, sunny and protected from the north winds/ * * * may partly be believed. It seems quite certain/ that there were no practitioners of medicine at Epi-/dauros, but that the cures were wrought by faith alone./ The building that has been most discussed is a round structure called the Tholos (Rotunda). Enough of the/ circular foundations at the center are left to give us a/ puzzle. Dörpfield thinks that here may have been the/ abode of the sacred serpents of Aesculapius."/ From Greece through the Stereoscope, by Rufus B. Richardson, Ph. D.,/ copyright by Underwood & Underwood./ In the sanctuary of Aesculapius, god of healing, Epi-/Dauros, Greece. [final line is also printed in French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian.]