Associations to the word «Preventorium»

Wiktionary

PREVENTORIUM, noun. (historical) An institution or building for the isolation of patients infected with tuberculosis who did not yet have an active form of the disease.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats