earth bath

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mud bath.
  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. historical

词形变化

earth baths plural earthbath alternative Earth bath alternative

词汇关系

相关词
earth-bathing

词源

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").
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