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HEALTH

Volume 11 · 65 words · 1842 Edition

s 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 Reipublice, Salus Augusti, and so on.