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

Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

She found him, finally, in a sanitarium on April 6.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 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

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.

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

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

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

Originally part of sanitariums, they were where tuberculosis patients would be confined to not further spread the disease.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 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

In fact, the last tenants used it for one of these rest sanitariums.

From The Common Man by George Luther Schelling