noun
Meaning 1
A mud bath.
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Phrase guide
earth bath
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
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Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of earth bath.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
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").