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

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

Doctors urged him to enter a sanitarium for treatment, but Slim refused and headed for the desert, although doctors warned him he would be dead in a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a totalitarian society suffocating under a U.S. trade embargo and the post-Soviet economic crisis known as the Special Period, the sanitariums offered community, regular meals and air conditioning.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 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

The dress was adopted for skating and gymnastic exercises, in seminaries and sanitariums.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton