The word 'sanatorium' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can refer to a facility devoted to medical treatment, usually of chronic illnesses, or to a rest home or a resort for convalescence or rest. For example, "Ursula stayed in a sanatorium for two weeks for rehabilitation and recovery after her surgery".
In the late 19th century, the British developed this small town into first a sanatorium for heat-malaised men of the Raj and then the summer capital, from where the "Jewel in the Crown" was marshalled and then, in the 20th century, dismantled.
Writing in the first person, as an old man reminiscing in a Czech sanatorium, he details Crabb's career, carefully re-creating the jaunty language and political paranoia of post-war Britain.
His doctors have suggested a ten-or 12-day stay in the presidential sanatorium at Barvikha, near Moscow.
The most recent example was the sacking last week of his team of speechwriters; since the boss is no longer capable of making speeches he was still "resting" at a sanatorium this week their services are no longer required.
But he was soon coughing with TB and emphysema, and though he went to the sanatorium and she took healthy fruit to him, grapes and pears they could hardly afford, he was never well again.Related items Terrorism in Northern Ireland: Down but not outJul 31st 2008When she last saw him in 1980 he was in Hammersmith hospital, dying.
The Free Air Society, the travelling cinema shows, the Hydro Majestic, the sanatorium for consumptives, the climate and the landscape; her research has been impeccable, the discretion and discernment of the writing and characterisation very special.
There has been a sanatorium here since the late 18th century and a covered arcade running down one side of the square is lined with a row of busts of severe-looking notables who have come to Balatonfured to take the waters.Thanks in part to the opening of Sarmellek airport, a former Warsaw pact airbase, Balaton is enjoying a surge in tourism.
But all of them saw Britain as a sanctuary; or even as a sanatorium.
Later it became a supply base for the navy's campaign against the slave trade; the steady warm air of the trade winds meant it also made a good sanatorium for sailors and freed slaves.
As minister for the gas industry and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the mid-1980s, he was entitled to a large apartment in Moscow and a dacha in the country, holidays in a Crimean sanatorium and jars of black caviar from a special shop.
IN "THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN" by Thomas Mann, a young businessman visits his ailing cousin in a sanatorium in Davos, in the Swiss Alps.
