earth bath

noun

A mud bath.

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Meanings

earth bath1

nounearth bath (plural earth baths)

plural earth baths · alternative earthbath · alternative Earth bath

  1. A mud bath.
  2. historicalA 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.

Earth bath2

nounEarth Bath (plural Earth baths)

plural Earth baths

  1. alternativeAlternative form of earth bath.

Earth Bath3

nounEarth Bath (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of earth bath.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mud bath

Origin

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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APA

earth bath. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/earth%20bath

MLA

“earth bath.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/earth%20bath. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “earth bath,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/earth%20bath.

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