hip bath

Historical Examples of hip bath

• But the only kind of bath which an undergraduate can command is a hip-bath.

  Zuleika Dobson

  Max Beerbohm

• A shower-bath, a hip-bath, or a sponging-bath he hath not seen, neither can he conceive.

  Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)

  Various

• The hip-bath may be medicated with three or four table-spoonfuls of alum, or with a quarter of a pound of common household soda.

  The Physical Life of Woman:

  Dr. George H Napheys

• Sitz-bath, sitz′-bth, n. a hip-bath: a tub adapted for such.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)

  Various

• A hip-bath, with cold water, stood beside the bed, over which was a hanging bookcase.

  The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

  Israel Zangwill