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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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Overall Winner World Food Photography Awards The Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium (health hotel) is a colossal concrete complex built on radon-rich hot springs in the mountains of Tajikistan.
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Thousands of patients passed through the sanatorium before antibiotics dramatically reduced tuberculosis deaths.
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In April, when Rojas got news that his father had been rushed to the hospital, Roberts quickly took the decision on whether to play out of Rojas’ hands, scratching him from the lineup.
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Davis native skateboarder Nyjah Huston was in a hospital bed just a month and a half ago.
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Gallagher is accused in the March 21, 2022, killing of her uncle, Thomas Arthur Burke, a 74-year-old who was dying of cancer while in hospice care at his Fort Lauderdale home.
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My personal experience of AIDS comes from my aunt, Lory Lobiondo, who became a hospice nurse after her best friend died of AIDS in 1987.
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Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
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“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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