sweat bath

I begin to fall off in weight like a jockey in a sweat bath.

From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach

These stones glowing white with heat are placed in a tiny pit underneath the covering of this booth, now to be called his sweat bath.

From The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon

He lay a cripple in Montenegro six months, but in the summer crawled down to the Bocche de Cattaro and on the sweltering shores of the Adriatic built himself a primitive sweat bath.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon

Jim's overcoat gave him the pleasant feeling of sitting in a sweat bath but he dared not doff it.

From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton

On that day the first sweat bath is taken, and one also upon each succeeding day until four baths, as a ceremony of purification, have been indulged in.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman