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