Talk:Sanatorium

Dictionary
This needs to be improved beyond "dic-def" status, and the current article moved to Wiktionary, IMHO. Rlquall 13:58, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirect
Searching "convalescent home" shouldn't redirect to this page, it should go to the "nursing home" page. ZebThorn (talk) 16:38, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Sanatorium/Sanitarium
I have a couple of issues with the quote which appears (in the manner stated) to be attributed to "Dr. R G Ferguson"... the first of which is that the resource the quote links to attributes it to the writings of Dr. J A Holbrook, not Ferguson. More pertinently to the information itself, while this anecdote is interesting, it is not necessarily the generally accepted reasoning for these two spellings; however its prominence in the upper portion of the "History" section implies it is. If I remember correctly the Oxford English Dictionary asserts that "sanatorium" is the older word, and "sanitarium" was originally a misspelling, and now alternate spelling. The claim that they're derived from two different words is undermined in a couple respects:

1) The normative adjective "sanus" (healthy) is the root of that word family, not the verb "sano" (to heal) as Holbrook asserts... problematic also is that "sano" has two other meanings, as a dative adjective ("healthier") and an ablative adjective ("LESS healthy").

2) The dichotomy between "sanatorium" and "sanitarium" contains no explanation for the third spelling "sanitorium"; this would suggest to me that BOTH alternates are more or less corrupted versions that have fallen into use.

3) The group that erected the first Canadian sanatorium in Muskoka is supposedly the group responsible for changing "sanitarium" to "sanatorium" -- however this group is in modernity called the "National Sanitarium Association" (as it stands today -- http://nationalsanitarium.ca/)

4) Holbrook's quote is the only instance I can find that suggests the spelling variant was in any way intentional; further it is the only instance I can find that suggests "sanitarium" is the older, correct word. Admittedly I only looked for about half an hour, but even the National Sanitarium Association (link above in #3) has no mention of this anecdote on their History page. I'd possibly remove it myself, except I'm about 4 months lapsed on my OED subscription, and I may simply fail at internet searches. It's possible. I'm hoping someone with more guts than I will weigh the arguments and decide if I'm full of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.243.162.31 (talk) 23:43, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Ignoring the Mental Variant
Can we get a bit of info added as to the mental hospital variant of sanatoriums, such as the one depicted in the Art Spiegelman novel 'Maus'? It's mentioned in the opening paragraph and then the focus turns solely to tuberculosis.

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