Definition of "sanatory" []

• Producing health; healing or curative (adjective)

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• "May we not say that, whatever the social body, acting in its aggregate capacity, _can_ do to redress the balance -- whether in education of their children, in sanatory regulations which concern their workshops and their dwellings, or in judicious charity that will not press upon the springs of industry -- it is _bound_ to do by the sacred obligation of justice?"
• "Hard exercise, beer, and pulling had their usual sanatory effect, and Tom gradually recovered his health, if not his spirits."
• "It would be an inquiry of some interest, now that the care of the public health is becoming a department of the state, with what sanatory measures these becoming solemnities were attended."