sickroom

Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.

To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.

Bliss refused to let him into the sickroom, claiming that Baxter would disturb Garfield.

Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.

He says he is a doctor “offering cures” but always also the patient in the sickroom.