salutifer

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sălūtĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [salus-fero] (poet. for salubris),

health-bringing , healing , salubrious : totique salutifer orbi Cresce, puer, dicit, Ov. M. 2, 642; so, anguis Urbi, id. ib. 15, 744; 15, 632: herbae animantibus, Stat. Ach. 1, 117: aquae, Mart. 5, 1, 6; Ov. H. 21, 174: salutiferā potione pestem veneni exstinguere, Ap. Met. 10, 26, 19; Aug. in Psa. 118, Serm. 26, 4: verba, Alcim. 4, 225.

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