sudatories

There are now fairly laid open, the foundations and remains of very august Roman baths and sudatories, constructed upon their elegant plans, with floors suspended upon square-brick pillars, and surrounded with tubulated bricks, for the equal conveyance of heat and vapour.

The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath Charles E. Davis

I allude to their vapour baths, or sudatories, of which each village has several, and which seem to he a kind of public property-accessible to all, and resorted to by all, male and female, old and young, sick and well.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

These sudatories are always near the village, above or below it, on the bank of the river.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841

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

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841