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The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist.
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022
Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.
—Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
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Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks?
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022
Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.
—Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
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My favorite hike happened to start at my favorite hotel, Rooms Kazbegi, an old Soviet sanatorium that’s been given a glow-up.—
Lori Rackl,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
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The Inhalatorium, the feature-length animation debut by director and animator Bára Anna Stejskalová, follows a 13-year-old girl who arrives at a mountain sanatorium to treat her asthma.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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Many of the victims were transported to nearby hospitals for treatment, according to police.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
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Clover was released from the hospital in February and has brainstormed a new way to meet visitors at the ball—this time, by golf cart.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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State regulators have suspended hundreds of hospice licenses amid allegations of fraudulent billing and phantom patient schemes.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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In a Medi-Cal hospice case charged this April in California, prosecutors said operators bought SSNs from breach dumps and enrolled non-California residents as terminally ill hospice patients, then billed the state for visits that never happened.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2026
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Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Inside the Old Louisville murder house: This Old Louisville mansion was home to a grave in a wine cellar, a sanitorium and a cult.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
25 May 2022
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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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