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
Physician conducting a medical examination of a dairy worker at the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Ah-Gwah-Ching, Minnesota, 1932.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 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
Later, a group of 31 were sent to “a sanatorium for children in Moscow.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023
Next, Buddy borrowed a car from his own doctor, who'd had TB himself and was very understanding, and we drove off as the buzzer for walk hour rasped along the sunless sanatorium corridors.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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