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sudatorium

A bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths.

        sudatorium

        A room, often with wooden walls, which is designed for heating dry air and where steam may be produced by pouring water over hot stones.

              A medicine that causes or increases sweating.

                    1
                    We must regard it rather as a sudorific for feverish blood and brains.
                    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5
                    2
                    It is advised as a sudorific stimulant in low fevers, and to relieve spasms.
                    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
                    3
                    There is a very sudorific odour from the crowd.
                    Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
                    4
                    I can say from experience, that it is a powerful sudorific, and very efficacious in a cold.
                    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
                    5
                    Did my sudorific work well, think you?
                    London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger