SANATORIUM (a

See also:

• MODERN

modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to

See also:

• HEALTH

health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)  , an establishment where persons suffering from disease, or convalescents, may be received for medical treatment, rest cures and the like; in recent modern usage particularly used for establishments where patients suffering from phthisis may undergo the open-air treatment (see THERAPEUTICS) . The mis-spellings of the word, sanitarium and sanatarium, are, due to a confusion of " sanatory," i.e. giving health, from sanare, and " sanitary," pertaining to health, from sanitas, health .