recuperalio; or by circumlocution with the verbs: restitutio (restitution, restoration; e.g., libertatis, Valerius, Max.; pristinae fortunae, Suet.). (Of health), refeotio, recreatio (a recovering): sanitas restituta; valetudo confirmata; salus; sanitas aegri. To endeavor to effect the recovery of a sick person, petere sanitatem aegri: to have no hope of a person’s recovery, aliquem or alicujus salutem desperare (cf., Cic., N.D., 3, 38, 91): all the physicians doubt his recovery, omnes medici diffidunt; a medicis desertus est: he had no great hopes of recovery, exigua cum spe trahebat animam: there appears to be hope of recovery, spes ostenditur sanitatis: to promise a speedy recovery to anybody, dicere alicui ut perbrevi convalescat: ☞ convalescentia is unclassical.