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Sanatory   Listen
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Sanatory  adj.  Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. "Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc." Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.






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"Sanatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... seldom heeded fact that it is striking perpetually at hundreds among the very lowest, whom we leave to sicken and die in dens unfit for men—unfit for dogs; if this tragedy shall awaken all loyal citizens to demand and to enforce, as a duty to their sovereign, their country, and their God, a sanatory reform in town and country, immediate, wholesale, imperative; if it shall awaken the ministers of religion to preach about that, and hardly aught but that— till there is not a fever ally or a malarious ditch left in any British city;—then ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley



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