the ministry of welfare suggested changing the name of a leprosarium to a sanatorium. In culture The Magic Mountain, the 1924 novel by the German writer and social critic Thomas Mann, is set in a sanatorium. The Austrian-American Jewish poet and artist Samuel Greenberg wrote three poems about his experiences in sanatoria including "Wards Island Symphonique". The American heavy metal band Metallica has the song "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" on their 1986 Master of Puppets studio album, which had been in part inspired by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. See also Sanatorium (resort) Battle Creek Sanitarium (Michigan, United States) Leper colony List of sanatoria in the United States References Further reading Waverly Hills Sanatorium still source of local curiosity, Douglas Kleier, Jr., Louisville Cardinal Online, Oct. 21, 2003. Thomas Spees Carrington. Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction (New York, 1911). External links Bloomington's Kelso Sanitarium promised to cure all - Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois newspaper) Destination resorts