The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanatory \San"a*to*ry\, a. [LL. sanatorius, fr. L. sanare to heal. See Sanable.] Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public
health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining,
etc.
--De Quincey.
Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.
Wiktionary
a. producing health; healing or curative
Usage examples of "sanatory".
All night long, and throughout the entire city, the scavengers of the law had been at work, and now, as a result, every miserable atom of humanity that had made itself a pestilential offence to society was gathered here to be disposed of according to sanatory moral rules.
For this sanatory measure, however, Dorothea, who had recovered consciousness, seemed to entertain an unaccountable repugnance.
The calmness of an asylum, the sanatory rules and regulations observed there, will restore him, if anything will.