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Salt Salubrious Salutary Salute Salary Salvo Salsa
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ SALUBRIOUS   from lat SALUBRIS      = HEALTHY
^u                      SALUBRITAS      WHOLESOMENESS
                        SALUS           HEALTH
~ SALUD        in sp HEALTH  sug>       SALUTARY
               hx> relates to the notion that
                    SALT is a HEALTH PANACEA
               see> SALT or in sp SAL
~ SALUM        in lat =    HIGH SEAS  sug> MARINE
               note MARINATING as in  TO PICKLE
~ SALUS        or HYGEIA   see> HYGIENE
               myth> GODDESS OF HEALTH
               id+ SALUS leads to SALVO and to
                   SAFE  SAVIOR  SALVAGE
~ SALUTARITER  lat for BENEFICIALLY
                       PROFITABLY
~ SALUTARY     HEALTH PROMOTING
~ SALUTATION   lat SALUTARE = SALUTE or see> GREETING
~ SALUTE       lat SALUTARE       must  see> GREET
               sp  SALUD      HEALTH    or a GREETING
                   SALUDOS    GREETINGS
               ukr ZDOROV     GREETING  TO HEALTH
                   ZDOROVYJ   HEALTHY  also BIG
               id+ A WISH FOR GOOD HEALTH
                   OFTEN INCLUDES A GESTURE TO
               HONOR ANOTHER PERSON BY BOWING  or
               RAISING THE RIGHT HAND  or
               MUCH MORE        eg FIRING CANNONS
~ SALVE        BE WELL  or  BE IN GOOD HEALTH
               as in " SALVE CAESAR "
                     " SALVUS SUM " = I AM WELL
               lat SALVARE            TO SAVE
               sp  SALVADOR           SAVIOR
               lat SALVUS             SAFE as in SAVED
               ukr SALVUS             A GREETING
                   DENOTES " I HOPE YOU ARE WELL "
               sug> leads to  HEALTH  HYGIENE  WELFARE
               ACCLAIM  SAFE  SALVAGE  SALVATION  SALVADOR
~ SALVER       hx> PERSON WHO TASTED FOOD ON TRAY BEFORE
                   IT WENT TO THE MASTER
~ SALVO        A SALUTE
               also denotes AN ARTILLERY DISCHARGE or
  OTHER VERBAL or PHYSICAL DISCHARGE or DELIVERY OF
  A CLUSTER or MULTIPLE ITEMS
  ply> | A SALVO OF SALUTARY SALUTES MAY BE SALUBRIOUS |
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