sanitarium
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He made it to the sanitarium in time.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
The Soledar mine had become a tourist attraction, complete with a sanitarium built around the unproven health benefits of breathing salt-infused air.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
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
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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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
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
The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
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
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
From 1986 to 1994, Cuba quarantined people with H.I.V. in sanitariums, which were at first reviled internationally as grotesque human rights violations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
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
“We were unprepared. We had 70 tuberculosis sanitariums geared for out-of-staters, but very few hospitals to treat local people. We were the only state of the 48 that did not have a public health department.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
Boarding-houses, sanitariums, and sea voyages are the places to study human nature.
From Cambridge Sketches by Stearns, Frank Preston
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