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A sanatorium (also '''sanitorium''', '''sanitarium''') is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically Tuberculosis . A distinction was sometimes made between a "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium ) and "sanatorium" (a hospital). According to the verb root sano, meaning to heal, and adopted the new word sanatorium" {Link without Title} . The rationale for sanitoriums was that before antibiotic treatments existed, a regime of rest and good nutrition offered the best chance that the sufferer's immune system would "wall off" pockets of pulmonary tuberculosis infection. In the early twentieth century, tuberculosis sanatoriums (or sanatoria) were common in the is the last remaining freestanding tuberculosis sanatorium in the United States {Link without Title} . Switzerland had many sanatoriums, as it was believed that clean mountain air was the best treatment for Lung Diseases . The ill of Europe were sent to recover there. The Heliantia Sanatorium in Valadares , Portugal was used for the treatment of bone tuberculosis between the 1930s and 1960s. After 1943, when Albert Schatz , a graduate student at Rutgers University , discovered Streptomycin , the first true cure for tuberculosis, sanatoriums began to close. Around the 1950s, tuberculosis was no longer a major Public Health threat and so most of the sanatoriums had reached the end of their lives. Most sanatoriums were demolished years ago. Some, however, have assumed updated medical roles. The is now a regional Mental Retardation center. FORMER SOVIET UNION In the former Soviet Union the term has a slightly different meaning. It is mostly a combination of a resort/recreational facility and a medical facility intended to provide short-term complex rest and medical services. IN LITERATURE '' The Magic Mountain '' (''Der Zauberberg''), a Novel by the German author Thomas Mann (1875–1955), is set in a sanatorium. Mann was familiar with this type of setting from 1912 when his wife was hospitalized with lung disease for several months in Dr. Friedrich Jessen's ''Waldsanatorium'' in Davos , Switzerland . ''Der Zauberberg'', one of the most influential of all 20th-century novels, is a lengthy work and was first published in two volumes by S. Fischer Verlag in 1924. SEE ALSO Losheng Sanatorium Waverly Hills Sanatorium REFERENCES
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