sweat bath
Example Sentences
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He was given a steam sweat bath daily.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
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
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
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.
