Word: sanatoriums
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...This New Latin word means an "establishment to educate people how to keep well." A "sanatorium" is an establishment for treating specific diseases or for applying particular remedies...
...shelter, treatment, and discipline of physical, mental, and moral "lame ducks"; a species of sanatorium or reform school for young people who are "too much" for busy, lazy, or incompetent parents or guardians...
There exists a "lime starvation" treatment, which consists of getting organic lime into the blood. Mr. McCann asserts that the customary sanatorium treatment arrests only 22% of tuberculosis cases, taken at early stages, and treated under ideal conditions, whereas, for 12 years, the "lime starvation" cure has arrested an average of 68%, taken at serious stages, and treated while patients continued to do their regular work. Mr. McCann asserts that the suppression of this cure reveals "the abysmal inertia of the medical profession with respect to a disease so clumsily and inefficiently attacked...
...German gynecologist announced that a fluid prepared by Professor von Weniger, of Rio de Janeiro, tested in a Berlin sanatorium, has been found a specific for tuberculosis. The fluid contains thorium, uranium, manganese and various acids, and is said to dissolve the fatty covering of the tuberculosis bacilli. Colleagues of the sponsor are sceptical of his claims...
...polishing off of an intellectual or social aristocracy or cult of "leaders" in the body social; for fitting oneself to cut a larger figure in terms of money-making, social standing, or what not; for the shelter and treatment of physical, mental and moral "lame ducks"-a kind of sanatorium for boys who are too much for busy or incompetent parents; for fun, and the enjoyment of an exceedingly pleasant status under carefree conditions-participation in activities, making desirable friendships and gaining general prestige; and, finally, for the normal rounding-out of the formal education of the average American citizen...