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sanitarium

[san-i-tair-ee-uhm] / ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i əm /




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Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2025

By the time he was released, on May 26, his children had been flown to a sanitarium called Poliany, a strictly guarded institution near Moscow.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

But he also can’t keep his eyes off Sadie, a young woman who regularly visits New Bethany as a respite from the sanitarium where she’s being treated for tuberculosis.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2022

“My father was a psychiatrist with his own sanitarium in Beacon, N.Y., where I grew up,” he said.

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2022

Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

There are many sanitaria on the Continent and in America where this form of "bathing" is practised.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

Other trained nurses become matrons and housekeepers in private hospitals, sanitaria, and colleges.

From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Lady Marjory MacMurchy Willison

For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker

Now—only just now—the physicians are doing the same, and establishing out-of-door sanitaria for consumption.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

Outdoor air became part of the treatment regimen for tuberculosis, inspiring the design of sanitariums and fueling an open-air school movement that had students attending class on rooftops, in army tents and on ferries.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2023

Remember that sanitariums weren’t modern hospitals where patients dropped in for a checkup or treatment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2022

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, tuberculosis patients sought refuge in sanitariums.

From Washington Post Mar. 13, 2022

After graduating in 1953, she worked in sanitariums while completing a master’s degree in fine arts at BU, awarded in 1957.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2021

"Valley Mead" was proving the most marvelous of forbidden playthings, and was doing for Randolph Bartlett what doctors and sanitariums and tears and threats had failed to do.

From Quin by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice




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