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sanitarium

[san-i-tair-ee-uhm] / ˌsæn ɪˈtɛər i əm /




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The St. Erne Sanitarium had opened on the adjacent West Boulevard, and three others nearby specialized in the feared and stigmatized afflictions of tuberculosis, alcoholism and, in the language of the day, insanity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Boyle novel and a 1994 movie about the Kelloggs and the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022

One of the leading pioneers of the anti-masturbation crusade was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — a pious Seventh-day Adventist and eugenicist — who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a world-renowned health resort in Michigan.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2021

Kellogg preached to adherents at his then-famous health resort Battle Creek Sanitarium that producing at least three, and much better four, bowel movements a day ought to be the norm.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2021

Mother is going into a big Sanitarium, and I am going to work with Miss Fairlee through the summer.

From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)




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