HEALING, in its general sense, includes the whole process of curing or removing a disorder, and recovering health. In this sense medicine is defined the art of healing. In its more restricted sense, as used in surgery, healing denotes the uniting or consolidating the lips of a wound or ulcer.
HEALTH is a right disposition of the body, and of all its parts. The Greeks and Romans deified Health, representing it under the figure of a woman, whom they supposed to be the daughter of Æsculapius. We find the name of the Goddess Salus, or Health, on many medals of the Roman emperors, with different inscriptions; as, SALUS PUBLICA, SALUS REIPUBLICÆ, SALUS AUGUSTI, and so on.