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hip bath
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hip bath
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a portable bath in which the bather sits
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Noun1.hip bath - a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position
bathing tub, bathtub, tub, bath - a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
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The patient should also take alternate hot and cold hip baths.
Useful measures in this direction include wet girdle pack applied at night, application of ice bag over the stomach half an hour before meals and a hot water bag over the stomach half an hour after meals, a daily cold friction bath and alternate hot and cold hip baths at night.
But, in years gone by, those who could afford it would pay four shillings to be immersed in the health-giving Trefriw waters, or less to soak small sections of the body in hip baths.
 
 
 
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