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A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

dency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigor and refreshment.

ut economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate. The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. Rambler.

Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tabl…

ry or affliction; soreness. In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isa. xxx. 26.

g ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

n to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.

The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation…

A wound healed or healing outwardly only. [Obs.] Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure. Chaucer.

the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

Preserving health; prophylactic. [Obs.]

That department of medicine which relates to the preservation of health; prophylaxis. [Obs.]

plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts. Harris.

Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

r passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.

Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.