< b>Gesundheit: Interjection used to wish "good health," especially to someone
who has sneezed. In this situation, Gesundheit is roughly equivalent to "God bless
you."
In German "Gesundheit" means "health" (and "sanity"). Wishing "good health" was
once thought to hold off the illness that might follow a sneeze.
"God bless you" came into comparable usage to prevent the escape of the soul
from the body, which was thought to occur with a sneeze. (Soullessness was believed
to cause ill health.)
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