sanitarium

In the late 1890s, John Harvey Kellogg, the director of a Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., wanted a vegetarian breakfast alternative to the bacon and eggs his clients were accustomed to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

She found him, finally, in a sanitarium on April 6.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

I have always loved the idea of a sanitarium: Swaddle me in blankets like a chic burrito, please, and tilt my deck chair toward the Swiss Alps or whatever hills you’ve got.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

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.

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Originally part of sanitariums, they were where tuberculosis patients would be confined to not further spread the disease.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 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

He pushed all thought of sanitariums out of his mind.

From The Voice of the Pack by Edison Marshall