c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 28 Gif we wyllað ealle ða wundra and hælða awritan..gefremode þurh ðone wuldorfullan cyðere Stephanum.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds iv. 22 The man..in the which this sygne of heelthe was maad.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xii. 9 To another, grace of heelthis.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 88 b/2 Holy oylle..moche vayllable to thelthe of sykenesses of many men.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vi. f. 74^v The diseased woman obteyned healthe of the fluxe of her bludde.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 236 Þam arist rihtwisnysse sunne, and hælþ is on hyre fiðerum.

c1250 Old Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 32 Greded gode..þet he us yeue gostliche helþe in ure saule.

1382 J. Wyclif Psalms xxvi[i]. 1 The Lord my liȝting and myn helthe.

1382 J. Wyclif Luke ii. 30 Myn yȝen han seyn thin helthe.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xix. f. cvij^v Iesus sayd vnto hym: This daye is healthe come vnto this housse.

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .ii There is no health in vs.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1620 He hath made sale of his soules dearest health.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 185 That Health, that Perfection of a Social State.

1887 ‘E. Lyall’ Knight-errant II. viii. 208 As you value the health of your own souls.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G^v Your drunken healths, your houts and shouts, Your smooth God saue's.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 43 Hee calls for wine, a health quoth he. View more context for this quotation

1675 E. Cocker Morals 9 By drinking others healths, to lose their own.

1713 J. Addison Cato ii. ii Cæsar sends health to Cato.

1795 J. Wolcot Convention Bill in Wks. (1812) III. 378 I like not healths; too oft they carry treason.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 7 As often as any of the..princes proposed a health, the kettle drums and trumpets sounded.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 13 Bretayne passeþ Irlond in faire weder and nobilte but noȝt in helþe.

1905 Daily Chron. 25 Apr. 4/5 An uneatable health biscuit..stood by his bedside.

1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 96 And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.

1970 T. Lilley Projects Section x. 123 You will not..have inoculations to bring your Health Card up to date.

1938 F. G. Hobson Med. Pract. Residential Schools p. xv (heading) Organization of medical services. A. Health Certificates. B. Records.

1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 66 My health certificate, photographs of home.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vi. 75 Until pure health-drops, from the cup of joy, Fall like a dew of balm upon the world.

1883 W. H. Bishop House of Merchant Prince iii. 40 They went..to the health springs of Colorado and Florida.

1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 164 People may be health-proud as well as purse-proud.

1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors iii. 33 He is on the Health Board.

1925 N.Z. Educ. Gaz. 1 May 68/1 The teachers decided to hold a ‘health camp’ for the twenty-six children.

1963 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 26 Oct. A woman doctor whose name will always be remembered in New Zealand as the pioneer of the health camp movement, Dr. Elizabeth Catherine Gunn, M.B.E., died in Wellington today.

1940 Health Care for Children (U.S. Bureau Publ. Assistance) iv. 30 State and local agencies will need to make available to the staff information in regard to the facilities for health care.

1954 Z. tich Health Care in Czechoslovakia 15 Health care has been made available to all citizens... The number of hospitals has increased and a dense network of health centres has been established.

1963 in J. B. Grant Health Care for Community i. 6 The family rather than the individual must become the unit of health care.

1973 Black World Jan. 13/2 Persons interested in redesigning American health-care systems have been moving toward fulfilling the specific needs of identifiable segments of the population.

1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Oct. a23/3 The OMA committee..has been working since the spring of 1984 with women's groups and health-care workers across the province.

1916 Public Health Nurse Q. (U.S.) Jan. 27 Historically the first Health Center started under that name was begun by the New York Health Committee in 1913.

1916 Public Health Nurse Q. (U.S.) Jan. 33 This Health Center..illustrates two fundamental principles, namely a definite area is selected for the field of operation; [etc.].

1918 Lancet 29 June 922/2 With the removal of the medical officer of health from the jurisdiction of the borough council that official will need a new office in the town, with laboratories, museum, library, and lecture hall. This I call for want of a better title the future ‘Health Centre’ of the borough.

1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 72 Libraries and health centres and milk for the children.

1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 198/1 With the era of the medical team and health centre upon us, the necessity for adequate documentation already exists.

1972 Times 22 Feb. 3/1 Some 3,000 family doctors will be practising from more than 500 health centres by the end of 1974.

1961 Economist 27 May 872/1 The active gymnasia (‘health clubs’) are much of a type.

1962 Which? Oct. 303/1 These health clubs, which have been fashionable in the United States for many years, have appeared in this country over the last three.

1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 84 Herzog had met him in the steam bath at Postl's Health Club.

1970 L. Sanders Anderson Tapes xliv. 121 We were in the steam room of that health club the Doc's got on West Forty-eighth Street.

1884 Nature 388/2 Preparations for..the International Health Exhibition.

1927 E. Hemingway Men without Women (1928) 115 Jack started training at Danny Hogan's health farm over in Jersey.

1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing ix. 196 What if that health-farm was a mere blind for more dastardly work?

1966 G. B. Mair Kisses from Satan v. 55 He was going to enter one of the most fashionable health farms in the world.

1969 Guardian 18 Aug. 7/5 Their health farm..is the place where they go once a year..and..lose 10 lb. or 15 lb. in two weeks.

1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xxviii, in Cent. Mag. Aug. 577/2 I put the camp on a health-food basis.

1884 B. Nye Baled Hay 75 I have had occasion to thoroughly investigate the subject of so-called health food, such as gruels, beef tea.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. v. 261 Health-food cranks.

1962 J. B. Priestley Margin Released i. iii. 26 Another shop, specialising in health foods, had a line in mashed dates and coconut.

1965 Observer 18 Apr. 45/2 Health food shops, where everything is free range, unsprayed, naturally fertilized.

1972 New York 8 May 49 Health Food. As used to describe stores, this term has taken on a generic meaning, encompassing everything from organic, natural, and specialized diet foods to whole wheat and other products mass-produced and refined.

1901 Index-Catal. Library Surg.-General's Office U.S. Army Ser. 2. VI. 849/1 (heading) Health-insurance.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55. 1 (heading) National Health insurance... All persons so insured..shall be entitled..to the benefits in respect of health insurance and prevention of sickness.

1916 Machinery July 1018/1 Booklet entitled ‘Health Insurance’.

1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man p. ix Subsidized housing..health insurance..free education..are all symptoms of..change.

1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) I. 581 Health Officer, the name of an officer invested with power to enforce the health laws.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xliii. 27 The prestes shal offre their burntoffringes and healthoffringes vpon y^e aulter.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xiv. 15, xlvi. 12.

1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 252 The establishment of lazarettoes and health-offices.

1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) I. 581 Health Officer, the name of an officer invested with power to enforce the health laws.

1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. xv. 277 It is ridiculous that a surveyor, or a health officer..should be appointed by popular suffrage.

1946 R. S. Stone in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 90 13/2 The term ‘Health-Physics’ has been used..to define that field in which physical methods are used to determine the existence of hazards to the health of personnel.

1946 R. S. Stone in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 90 16/1 The instrument development problems that faced the Health-Physics section were numerous.

1961 Engineering 26 May 734/2 The syllabus will include lectures..with..instruction in health physics.

1865 R. B. Grindrod Malvern 29 No other health resort in England which presents such a combination of hygienic advantages.

1891 E. A. Freeman Sketches Fr. Trav. 181 Royat, a village which has become a health-resort.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 256 His health-roll makes a sorry parade.

1900 Confectioners' Union Hand-bk. 169 Gums, jellies, lozenges..health salt, etc.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 46 Like a health-salts..advertisement.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 177 Health salts do fine for fizzy drinks.

1935 Economist 7 Sept. 456/2 Twenty-five years ago only the germ of our present health services existed, in the form of the old Poor Law and a rudimentary Old-Age Pension scheme.

1938 B. Webb Let. Jan. in K. Martin Editor (1968) iii. 73 The organisation of a public Health Service.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 717/2 The Health Service and the welfare state…have brought appalling drabness into the doctor's life.

1901 Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 7/1 In 1899 four ladies were appointed as health visitors.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 12/2 An audience of health visitors, district visitors, charity organisation visitors.

1917 New Witness 28 June 202/1 The bare idea that a Health Visitor should attempt to force her way into a French~woman's house would be regarded with horror.

1965 Listener 30 Sept. 483/1 I would think it most important by means of..the health visitor..to make assessments of the food which they require.

1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 19 The revolutionary woman must know her enemies, the doctors, psychiatrists, health visitors.

1628 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Fast 52 What bouzing, and quaffing, and whiffing, and healthing is there.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iv, in Wks. (1874) IV. 72 Goe, health it freely for my good successe.

1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker ii. i They now are healthing, and carrowsing deepe.

1654 J. Trapp Comm. Esther i 8 This detestable healthing and carousing too too common in all parts of Christendom.

1696 O. Heywood Let. in R. Thoresby Corr. (Hunter) I. 229 I prefer this exercise to ranting, railing, healthing.