sanatoriumn.
/sanəˈtɔːrɪəm/ 1. An establishment for the reception and medical treatment of invalids; in later use chiefly either of convalescent patients, or of consumptives undergoing the open-air treatment. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > sanatorium or convalescent home
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sanitarium1851
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1839 London Med. Gaz. 25 406/2 Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Arnott, and some other gentlemen, have it in contemplation to establish, under the name of ‘Sanatorium’, an institution..where patients are provided with board and medical treatment on the payment of a certain sum per week.
1839 London Med. Gaz. 25 407/2 We anticipate..that the parties who have set about the Sanatorium will abandon the scheme before it has been brought into actual operation.
1840 Mechanics' Mag. 152 [A prospectus of ‘The Sanatorium’—a self-supporting establishment for the lodging, nursing and cure of sick persons].
1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Quite a little shoal of companies for the establishment of sanatoria has recently made its appearance. The latest company is the Harrogate Sanatorium for Consumptives.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 15 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 104 I don't want to see my books; a library is a sanatorium of sick minds.
1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 130/2 The care of the mentally ill in distant upland sanatoriums.
2. A place to which, on account of favourable climatic and other conditions, invalids resort for the improvement of their health; spec. a hill-station in a hot country, esp. in India, to which residents periodically resort to recuperate.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > place to which invalids resort
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1842 G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir I. 38 These ladies are known by the well-selected epithet of ‘Grass Widows’; and there are sometimes more than fifty of them at each sanatorium.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 248 On a ridge of the outer Himalaya, stands the cantonment, or depôt, of Landour. It was established in 1827, as a sanatarium for European troops.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vii. 263 Neuera-ellia, as a sanitarium, is little to be relied on for the relief of active ailments.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 11/1 An English physician, who, as the custom is, has taken one of the rising sanatoria on the shores of the Mediterranean under his especial patronage.
1880 Athenæum 24 Apr. 533/2 There was a time when Minnesota was regarded as a sanatorium for the victims of consumption.
3. A room or building in a boarding school for the accommodation of the sick. Cf. San n.4
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > infirmary in a school
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1860 Eton Gloss. 30 Sanatorium. The Hospital—a modern improvement—where a boy seized with any infectious and dangerous illness is at once sent.
1901 Eton Boy's Lett. 98 They dont take measels to the Sanatorium as they arent dangerous.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iii. 71 When dragged from the scrummage he was in a half-fainting condition. He revived as he was being carried to the Sanatorium.
1981 E. North Dames iv. 75 Should Sister move the general's daughter to the sanatorium?.. Polio was about at Eton..where many girls had brothers.
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