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Healing

See also Medicine.

Achilles’ spear

had power to heal whatever wound it made. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]

Agamede

Augeas’ daughter; noted for skill in using herbs for healing. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 11]

Ahmed, Prince

possessed apple of Samarkand; cure for all diseases. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]

Amahl

cripple cured by accompanying Magi to the Christ child. [Am. Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Benét, 28]

Ananias

Lord’s disciple restores Saul’s vision. [N.T.: Acts 9:17 19]

balm in Gilead

metaphorical cure for sins of the Israelites. [O.T.: Jeremiah 8:22]

Bethesda

Jerusalem pool, believed to have curative powers. [N.T.: John 5:2–4]

copper

Indian talisman to prevent cholera. [Ind. Myth.: Jobes, 369]

coral

cures madness; stanches blood from wound. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 68]

emerald

relieves diseases of the eye. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 370]

Jesus’s five cures

he makes blind beggars see. [N.T.: Matthew 9:27–31, 20:31–34; Mark 10:46–52; Luke 18:35–43; John 9:1—34]

sweet fennel

said to remedy blindness and cataracts. [Herb Symbolism; Flora Symbolica, 164]