Definition of "hip-bath" []

• A form of portable bath, intended for sitting in, so that only the hips and the lower part of the trunk are submerged. Also called sitz-bath. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Upon inspection, the small hip-bath proved to fill and empty the same way."
• "There are several widely accepted methods of hydro-therapeutic treatment, chiefly among which are enema, hip-bath, steam bath, the full sheet pack, local wet packs, hot foot bath, spinal bath, localized fomentation by steam, etc."
• "Wherefore it is to be treated thus: The patient is to be put into a hip-bath of hot water, and sixty grains of the grana gnidia are to be pounded and infused in a hemina of wine, with half a hemina of oil, and injected."