sanatorium
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The novel’s first-person, postwar frame involves another absurdist twist: Franz Wilzek, a resident of an Austrian sanatorium, is corralled into a live television interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
Rowlands spent two years in a sanatorium as a child recovering from tuberculosis, a disease which claimed his sister Megan's life, and in the early 1990s he overcame bowel cancer.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023
The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
She has lived in the town for 33 years, working in a sanatorium.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
I look like I’ve just emerged from a sanatorium and am about to lose a long battle with consumption.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
The old sanatoria in the Alps to which European TB patients lucky enough to have wealthy relatives might be sent focused on cleanliness, fresh air and sunlight, ample nutritious food and rest.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025
Crawford estimates that in 1925 alone the couple spent a third of their income on doctors, medicines, and stays in hospitals or sanatoria.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
The lawsuit is directed at the federal government, as it was Canada that established, funded and oversaw residential schools, Indian hospitals and sanatoria.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2018
Rehab centers have the feel of pre-modern sanatoria.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2016
We know more of Greece than of other countries; there the shrines of AEsculapius were in many ways what we now call sanatoria.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
His tuberculosis, which before it killed him at age 40 led to rest “cures” at sanatoriums notable chiefly for their ineffectiveness?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
In the steam baths of local sanatoriums, Andropov and Gorbachev shared their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was destined for disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Located in the Carpathian foothills, Morshyn's economy is dependent on tourists visiting its hotels and sanatoriums and was hit badly by the first wave of lockdowns last year, Mayor Ruslan Ilnytsky told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2021
Any nervous invalid who has stayed much at sanatoriums will appreciate the humor of this classification.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
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