sanitarium
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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
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
“My father was a psychiatrist with his own sanitarium in Beacon, N.Y., where I grew up,” he said.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
The sanitarium was a heath and wellness resort, often visited by the rich and famous looking to improve their lifestyle.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 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
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