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earth bath

noun

Etymology

Sense 2: from earth + bathing. Widely understood to have been coined Scottish physician James Graham in the late 1780s or early 1790s. * Possibly coined earlier by Gerard van Swieten in 1765 in references to practices found in the Kingdom of Granada (writing "per balneum terrae," Latin for "bath of earth").

  1. inherited from bathynge
  2. compounded as earth bath — “earth + bathing”

Definitions

  1. A mud bath.

  2. A bath or therapeutic treatment in which the body is buried or immersed in earth, as…

    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.

  3. Alternative form of earth bath.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA