Definition of "health"

Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking

2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, page 213

Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer‎

They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.

1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613