The only real remedy they use, in common with other Indians, is the vapour-bath, or sweating-house. ❋ John M'lean (N/A)
"I mean the smell of the vaporous rooms, and the boiling soapsuds, and the oil and cotton and the moisture from the hot flesh of a thousand men and women makes the best mill in England a sweating-house of this age of corruption." ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
[8] An Indian vapour-bath, or sweating-house, is a square six or eight feet deep, usually built against a river bank, by damming up the other three sides with mud, and covering the top completely, excepting an opening about two feet wide. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
Making a rude sweating-house on the banks of the river, he would shut himself up until in a reeking perspiration, and then suddenly emerging, would plunge into the river. ❋ Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (1850)
Others are paddling about in-their tub-like canoes, made of the skins of buffaloes; and every now and then, are to be seen their sudatories, or vapour-baths, where steam is raised by throwing water on to heated stones; and the patient jumps from his sweating-house and leaps into the river in the highest state of perspiration, as I have more fully described whilst speaking of the bathing of the ❋ Unknown (1841)
The ceremony took place in a sweating-house or, as it may be designated from its more important use, a temple which was erected for the occasion by the worshipper's two wives. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
He placed his god at the upper end of the sweating-house, with his face towards the door, and proceeded to tie round its neck his offerings, consisting of a cotton handkerchief, a looking-glass, a tin pan, a piece of riband, and a bit of tobacco, which he had procured the same day, at the expense of fifteen or twenty skins. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
Several Indians, who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with very little awe and were extremely free in the remarks and jokes they passed upon the condition of the sweaters and even of Kepoochikawn himself. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
Several Indians, who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with very little awe, and were extremely free in the remarks and jokes they passed upon the condition of the sweaters, and even of Kepoochikawn himself. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
At the time of our arrival they were busy in preparing a sweating-house for the sick. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
He placed his god at the upper end of the sweating-house with his face towards the door and proceeded to tie round its neck his offerings, consisting of a cotton handkerchief, a looking-glass, a tin pan, a piece of riband, and a bit of tobacco which he had procured the same day at the expense of fifteen or twenty skins. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
The ceremony took place in a sweating-house, or as it may be designated from its more important use, a _temple_, which was erected for the occasion by the worshipper's two wives. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
We had no means of ascertaining the temperature of the sweating-house; but before it was closed not only those within but also the spectators without were perspiring freely. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
We had no means of ascertaining the temperature of the sweating-house; but before it was closed, not only those within, but also the spectators without, were perspiring freely. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
These two instruments are used in all their religious ceremonies, except those which take place in a sweating-house. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
These two instruments are used in all their religious ceremonies except those which take place in a sweating-house. ❋ John Franklin (1816)
We proceeded at seven o'clock and soon passed a stream falling in on the right, near which was an old Indian camp with a bath or sweating-house covered with earth. ❋ William Clark (1804)
[Dear God] did we pick up a dead rotting [homeless man]???....Oh nevermind that was [Erika] with another Swedish Sweat-house. Guess Thats it for us *CRASH* ❋ Hliven (2011)
