earth bath
earth bath · earth baths
A mud bathA mud bath.
Meaning
2 sensesA mud bath.
(historical)A bath or therapeutic treatment in which the body is buried or immersed in earth, as practiced in James Graham’s 18th-century "earth-bathing" therapy.
Origin
Sense 2: from earth + bathing. Widely understood to have been coined Scottish physician JaSense 2: from earth + bathing. Widely understood to have been coined Scottish physician James Graham in the late 1780s or early 1790s.
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Forms
plural: earth bathsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedearth-bathing
See also
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