sanitarium

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

He made it to the sanitarium in time.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

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

I have always loved the idea of a sanitarium: Swaddle me in blankets like a chic burrito, please, and tilt my deck chair toward the Swiss Alps or whatever hills you’ve got.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Berman, Louis, M.D.

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 Bierce, Ambrose

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Willison, Marjory MacMurchy, Lady

Outdoor air became part of the treatment regimen for tuberculosis, inspiring the design of sanitariums and fueling an open-air school movement that had students attending class on rooftops, in army tents and on ferries.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

Remember that sanitariums weren’t modern hospitals where patients dropped in for a checkup or treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

Upon her release, Zelda spent the next five years occasionally living with Scott and Scottie but mostly hospitalized in sanitariums in the United States.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2019

Most other forms of mental disease progress more rapidly toward recovery in sanitariums or hospitals equipped for such patients.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm