sweat bath
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First of all the patient was given a "sweat bath."
From I Married a Ranger by Dama Margaret Smith
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
"Cannot I cut off the part and restore you by a sweat bath?" the friend asked.
From Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
Sometimes a sweat bath was taken, after which the body was rubbed with sweet-smelling plants.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
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
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