Definition of "vapor-bath" []

• The application of the vapor of water to the body in a close apartment. (noun)
• The apartment or bath for such application; an apparatus for bathing the body in vapor. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Their ammunition is long since spent, their muskets, spoilt by the perpetual vapor-bath of the steaming woods, are left behind as useless in a cave by some cataract of the"
• "The soft and tepid land and sea breezes mitigate the heat to a slight extent, but I should soon long for a blustering north-easter to break in upon the oppressive and vapor-bath stillness."
• "For catarrh, bronchitis, pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, rheumatism, fever, affections of the bowels and kidneys, and skin diseases, the vapor-bath is an excellent remedy."