# earth bath

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. 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.

## Etymology
Sense 2: Compound of 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").

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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