Sanatorium
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A sanatorium, also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
Brehmer sanatorium, photo before 1905, founded by Austrian physician Hermann Brehmer in Görbersdorf, Silesia (now Sokołowsko, Poland). Brehmer established the first German sanatorium for the systematic open-air treatment of tuberculosis; it was the first institution of its kind.[citation needed]
Hällnäs sanatorium, founded in 1926, was one of the largest sanatoria in Sweden for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto
The Lima Tuberculosis Hospital in 1911
Convalescence
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Convalescence is the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury.
Sanatorium
…to heal'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence. Sanatoria were often in a healthy climate, usually in the countryside. The idea of healing was an important reason for the historical wave of…
The Convalescent by James Tissot, 1876
A convalescent woman. Photo by Paolo Monti.
Religious melancholia and convalescence