One side features the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting water pouring out of a rock to quench the thirst of a sick girl beside her.

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"She is a very sick little girl, but very strong, " she said.

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The girl did attend an agricultural fair four weeks before becoming sick, she said, but did not have any contact with pigs or other livestock.

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