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- noun Plural form of
sanitarium .
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Examples
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He cited the example of TB where sick people used to be kept for long periods of time in sanitariums at enormous expense but that the drugs that cured TB were incredibly cheap and worked very rapidly.
Health Care Spending, Continued, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Until the 1960's at least, mental health care basically consisted of isolating individuals from society - in sanitariums which had worse track records of abuse and inmate conditions than many prisons.
Mental Health Institutions and Prisons, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, he had been virtually an invalid for the last three years and most of his recent writing had been done in sanitariums to which his illness forced him to retreat.
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It was also worn by skaters, gymnasts, tourists, and in sanitariums.
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The sanitariums were a place to isolate diseases sufferers and hopefully cure them.
unknown title 2009
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I recalled the doctor's recommendation: "She needs some good old-fashioned R and R," he'd said, inspiring images of sanitariums nestled in the Alps, "rest cures" for pampered society ladies.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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The short-sighted are provided with spectacles, and the sickly (when they can pay for it) with sanitariums.
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Upon arrival in Switzerland, they went to hospitals and sanitariums for recuperation or received physical therapy to learn new trades and skills.
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Causes of death, incidents of stroke, commitments to sanitariums?
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Causes of death, incidents of stroke, commitments to sanitariums?
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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