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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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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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The five-bedroom, nearly 13,000-square-foot residence occupies the original doctor's house, built in 1912 to serve the physicians of the planned sanatorium.—
Paul Jebara,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
17 May 2026
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Drone strikes by the warring parties have targeted civilian infrastructure including hospitals, dams, schools, markets and displacement camps.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 May 2026
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Continue reading … STEAL YOUR MONEY — Dr Oz suspends 800 California hospice providers in $1B Medicare fraud crackdown.—
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FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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For hospice, the real problem is an inefficient payment system.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
18 May 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 23 May. 2026.
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