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 restrained sense, as used in surgery, &c., healing denotes the uniting or consolidating the lips of a wound or ulcer. The medicines proper for this intention are called inscrutatives, agglutinatives, vulneraries, &c.

Architecture, denotes the covering the roof of a building. The healing is various; as of lead, tiles, slate, Horsham stone, shingles, or reeds and straw.

Health, is a right disposition of the body, and of all its parts; consisting in a due temperature, a right conformation, just connexion, and ready and free exercise of the several vital functions.

Health admits of latitude, as not being the same in all subjects, who may yet be said to enjoy health.

That part of medicine which shows the means of preserving health, is termed hygeine. See Medicine Index.

The Greeks and Romans deified Health, representing it under the figure of a woman, whom they supposed to be the daughter of Aesculapius. We find the name of the goddess Salus, or Health, on many medals of the Roman emperors, with different inscriptions. HEA

Methods of preserving the Health of Mariners.