Word: sanitarium
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...should abstain, but does not want to, should be placed on an alcohol farm, or in a sanitarium or hospital. When an alcoholic's supply is abruptly stopped, sedatives are often necessary to relieve the shakes or jitters. He must learn the importance of eating; carry chocolate bars to nibble between meals, take heavy doses of vitamin...
Lila Lee, doll-faced heroine of the silents, and off & on the theatrical comeback trail ever since, took it easy at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanitarium, said she was "doing beautifully," after nearly a year there, hoped to be back in Manhattan late this summer...
...disbelief. They have seen all sorts of medicines-gold solution, diphtheria toxoid, etc.-touted and then dropped. Even chaulmoogra oil, which seemed to do some good, although it was often painful or made patients sick, has fallen into disfavor (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Recently the regime of a tuberculosis sanitarium-rest, good food, good care-has become the only standard treatment. By this regime alone, some 10% to 20% of leprosy cases are eventually arrested. "Cured" is a word leprologists have never dared...
What had happened to Edda meanwhile was told last week by the psychiatrist of the Swiss mountain sanitarium where she is confined...
Died. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, inventor of flaked cereals, famed director of Battle Creek Sanitarium; after long illness; in Battle Creek, Mich. Kellogg, whose white mustache and goatee made him look like an otter-shaped Buffalo Bill, was the son of Seventh Day Adventists. He took over their church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife...