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A sanatorium (from Latin sānāre 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, [1][2] is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence. Sanatoriums are often in a healthy climate, usually in the countryside.
Jul 27, 2017 · The main difference is that a patient in a sanatorium was always sick, usually with tuberculosis 1. The sanatorium was similar to a hospital and was designed to treat a specific disease 1. A person in a sanitarium might be there for any health-related reason, but might or might not be actually sick with a disease.
Nov 29, 2022 · Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure to sunlight and clean air. Their bright, open spaces influenced both healthcare and modern architecture.
Although the Kingston General Hospital ran a tuberculosis ward for many years, Ongwanada opened as a sanatorium in 1944 and operated as such until 1965. In the early days, typical stays in the sanatoria lasted only three to nine months, but by the 1920s, as society became increasingly concerned with isolating the contagious, stays were often ...
Dec 15, 2018 · The new sanatoria were designed in such a way that patients could stay in single rooms or rooms with a few beds, which usually gave onto large terraces where inmates could take so-called “sun baths”.
- Mariano Martini, Valentina Gazzaniga, Masoud Behzadifar, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Ilaria Barberis
- 2018
Around the middle of the 19th century, Hermann Brehmer, a German physician, proposed sanatorium treatment (called ‘phthisiotherapy’), an ‘immune’ place where a person could be cured with the aid of fresh rarefied alpine air, plentiful nutritious food, mountain walks, and mountain water douches.
A sanatorium (also spelled sanitarium or sanitorium) is a medical facility for long-term illness. They were most often used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics .
