sanitarium
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Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
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
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
Italianate-Mission in style, boxy with projecting cornice and flat roofline, it belonged to the developer, who in 1925 turned his private villa into a sanitarium and orphanage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 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
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
The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
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
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.
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
The existing network of government-run military sanitariums, a Soviet-era relic where wounded ex-soldiers could spend several weeks for recovery, has also proven to be ineffective.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 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
And like all sanitariums, you go into it with one disease and come out of it with ten.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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