sanitarium

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We were on a circuit which included a summer resort, and the varieties of diseases among patients in a sanitarium are as nothing compared to the mental, moral, spiritual and physical disorders to be found among the class who frequent "springs."

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  • The privilege of constructing, on liberal terms, a line of telegraph through Maulmain to Singapore, with a branch to Bangkok, has been granted to the Singapore Telegraph Company; and finally a sanitarium has been erected on the coast at Anghin, for the benefit of native and foreign residents needing the invigoration of sea-air. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • This movie opens with the escape of a group of lepers from a local sanitarium, they proceed to rob from a few locals, and the panicked locals demand action from the sheriff. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • When Simmons mentions in the podcast interview that the house is based on the Northampton sanitarium, the astonished interviewer asks, "Is it as crazy as you depict it?", to which Simmons replies, —  The Groovy Age of Horror
  • You could not see it, but you could feel it, and in this connection I recall an illustration of the difference between such a halo and the "aura" we hear so much about these days from people who think they are interested in psychic phenomena, but who are really psychic epileptics We were on a circuit which included a summer resort, and the varieties of diseases among patients in a sanitarium are as nothing compared to the mental, moral, spiritual and physical disorders to be found among the class who frequent "springs." —  A Circuit Rider's Wife
  • The owner of the sanitarium was willing to keep the lady longer if Chester Hunt, the person in authority, decided she must stay. —  Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
 

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  1. New Latin sānitārium, from Latin sānitās, health; see sanity.

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  1. New Latin, neuter of *sanitarius: see sanitary. Cf. sanatorium.
 

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/sænɪˈtəriəm/
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