Sanatorium
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A sanatorium (also spelled sanitarium or sanitorium) is a medical facility for long-term illness. They were most often used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics. Sometimes, the word is used to describe different things. For example, in eastern Europe, a "sanatorium" is a type of health resort such as the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Also, a "sanitorium" is a hospital.[1][2]
Sanatorium Media
Brehmer sanatorium, photo before 1904, founded by German physician Hermann Brehmer in Görbersdorf, Silesia (now Sokołowsko, Poland). Brehmer established the first German sanatorium for the systematic open-air treatment of tuberculosis and is the first institution of its kind.
Hällnäs sanatorium, founded in 1926, was one of the largest sanatoriums in Sweden for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto.
References
- ↑ ""The Sanatorium Age:'"Sanatorium' vs. 'Sanitarium', An History of the Fight Against Tuberculosis in Canada". Archived from the original on December 15, 2004.
- ↑ "Sanatorium". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
Further reading
- Waverly Hills Sanatorium still source of local curiosity, Douglas Kleier, Jr., Louisville Cardinal Online, Oct. 21, 2003.
- Adams, Annmarie; Schwartzman, Kevin; Theodore, David (2008). "Collapse and Expand: Architecture and Tuberculosis Therapy in Montreal, 1909, 1933, 1954". Technology and Culture. 49 (4): 908–942. doi:10.1353/tech.0.0172. JSTOR 40061618. PMID 19227960. S2CID 7674281. INIST 20977990.
- Thomas Spees Carrington. Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction (New York, 1911).
- Maitland, Leslie (1989). "The Design of Tuberculosis Sanatoria in Late Nineteenth Century Canada". Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 14 (1): 5–13. hdl:10222/71570.
- Topp, Leslie (1 December 1997). "An Architecture for Modern Nerves: Josef Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 56 (4): 414–437. doi:10.2307/991312. JSTOR 991312.
- Campbell, Margaret (1 October 2005). "What Tuberculosis did for Modernism: The Influence of a Curative Environment on Modernist Design and Architecture". Medical History. 49 (4): 463–488. doi:10.1017/s0025727300009169. PMC 1251640. PMID 16562331.
Other websites
"Sanatorium". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh). (1911). Cambridge University Press.
