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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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It was first meant to be a sanatorium, but soon became one of Italy's most luxurious hotels.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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Alexis Pedrick: At one point, Agnes wrote in her diary about going to a sanatorium and struggling with a lot of vague ailments like vertigo and headaches, which, honestly?—
Mariel Carr,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The family and foundation of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi say the human rights activist has been denied proper treatment and has not gotten better since being transferred from prison to a hospital.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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He was later taken in an ambulance by first responders to a local hospital for treatment.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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An Ada County judge let a Boise woman who stole jewelry from hospice patients off without prison time — but not without a stern warning and alternative punishment.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Apr. 2026
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In January 2025, a mother of a young boy whom the princess greeted at the children’s hospice Tŷ Hafan told PEOPLE about the experience of interacting with Kate.—
Helen Murphy,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 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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My great-grandmother died from tuberculosis in a sanitorium with concrete floors.—
Ben Lerner,
The New York Review of Books,
23 July 2020
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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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