1898: 'Hygeia and "hot dogs"'--Is Hygeia a soft drink?

[Gerald Cohen]

In Feb. 1898, The Yale Record (a student humor publication) had an
item which spoke of students 'freely indulging in Hygeia and "hot
dogs" (last line of the passage below my signoff).  Would anyone know
what Hygeia is? It seems to be something like a soft drink, although
I don't remember seeing it elsewhere.

    The passage below is part of the material on "hot dog" discovered
by Barry Popik. This particular item was first reprinted in Comments
on Etymology, Nov. 1995, p. 12.

Gerald Cohen

Feb. 5, 1898 -- The Yale Record, vol. 26, no. 8, page title 'EDITORIAL':
        'These are indeed days of degeneracy.  The visible muscles of
the Owl inordinately twitched when he learned of the sudden departure
in the meetings of his wise and temperate scholars, from the practice
of Sophistry to the use of the genial and soothing weed.  A somewhat
similar smilet o'er came him when his "next entry neighbor" also
informed him that his cultured protegées [sic: -ée] had decided to
use no violence in regard to the manner in which they would adjust
themselves to their chairs, and that in future they would "sit
unrestrainedly" around the chosen apartments freely indulging in
Hygeia and "hot dogs".'