sanitarium

In the late 1890s, John Harvey Kellogg, the director of a Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., wanted a vegetarian breakfast alternative to the bacon and eggs his clients were accustomed to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025

She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

The Soledar mine had become a tourist attraction, complete with a sanitarium built around the unproven health benefits of breathing salt-infused air.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

A similar disregard for drainage has ingeniously managed to convert into pest-houses Simla and other Himalayan sanitaria.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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.

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

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

And yet they have, within two days of sharp ride, that finest of sanitaria, the Hismá, which extends as far north and south as they please to go.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

But visitors can still enjoy outdoor time in pure mountain air — the distinctive feature that historically made Davos and its sanitariums a magnet for people in search of healing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2022

Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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