sanitarium

Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025

By the time he was released, on May 26, his children had been flown to a sanitarium called Poliany, a strictly guarded institution near Moscow.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

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

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 Ambrose Bierce

There are many sanitaria on the Continent and in America where this form of "bathing" is practised.

From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk

The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker

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 Lady Marjory MacMurchy Willison

For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.

Outdoor air became part of the treatment regimen for tuberculosis, inspiring the design of sanitariums and fueling an open-air school movement that had students attending class on rooftops, in army tents and on ferries.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

Remember that sanitariums weren’t modern hospitals where patients dropped in for a checkup or treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, tuberculosis patients sought refuge in sanitariums.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 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

He has to keep her at sanitariums with a companion to check her extravagance, and he pays her weekly visits to reassure her as to the divorce.

From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale