Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A remedy occasionally used, consisting of a bath of earth or mud.
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Examples
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But he will have a nice earth-bath one day, and that will take all the dirt off.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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Graham's earth-bath, too, was, I understand, tried upon Scott, but his was not one of the cases, if any such there were, in which it worked a cure.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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Graham's next {p. 109} receipt was the _earth-bath_, with which he wrought some cures; but that also failing, he was, I believe, literally starved to death. "
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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