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sanatorium

[san-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / ˌsæn əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /




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She shared how Martin was without parents from a young age and was "sent alone to a sanatorium in London for two years" after being diagnosed with tuberculosis.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

She also suffered other health issues during childhood and spent two years in a sanatorium.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 2023

Eliot escaped into work, a banker by day and literary critic by night, until he suffered a breakdown that sent him to a sanatorium in Switzerland.

From Washington Post Oct. 11, 2022

I look like I’ve just emerged from a sanatorium and am about to lose a long battle with consumption.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

I've got a chapter in the book about travel, just because it's a really time-honored approach, from the old Swiss sanatoria right all the way back through the medieval Christian tradition of pilgrimage.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2023

Crawford estimates that in 1925 alone the couple spent a third of their income on doctors, medicines, and stays in hospitals or sanatoria.

From Washington Post Sep. 28, 2022

The plaintiff in the case is John Pambrun, 77, a First Nations man who spent nearly six years of his childhood in Indian hospitals and sanatoria.

From The Guardian May 11, 2018

Rehab centers have the feel of pre-modern sanatoria.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2016

This does not include the insane in various private sanatoria, and moreover a considerable greater number of patients had been treated in these public institutions than were resident there June twentieth.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

His tuberculosis, which before it killed him at age 40 led to rest “cures” at sanatoriums notable chiefly for their ineffectiveness?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times Jul. 31, 2023

Located in the Carpathian foothills, Morshyn's economy is dependent on tourists visiting its hotels and sanatoriums and was hit badly by the first wave of lockdowns last year, Mayor Ruslan Ilnytsky told Reuters.

From Reuters Nov. 3, 2021

Like tuberculosis sanatoriums, the clean, smooth surfaces of the architecture of this era offered an anesthetic to disease and trauma.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2020

Extended care and physical therapy for patients suffering from chronic ailments were offered by 182 sanatoriums and health spas with a total bed capacity of 16,104.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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