sweat bath
Example Sentences
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The person wishing to make trial of the virtues of the sweat bath entered the â´sĭ, a small earth-covered log house only high enough to allow of sitting down.
He was given a steam sweat bath daily.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
The sweat bath lasts for a long time, often an hour or more, during which many prayers are offered, religious songs chanted, and several pipes smoked to the Sun.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by George Bird Grinnell
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
Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
