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Sponge bath   /spəndʒ bæθ/   Listen
Sponge bath

noun
1.
You wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub.





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"Sponge bath" Quotes from Famous Books



... spirits of wine. Send your own bottle to an oilshop for methylated spirits. But why not do this:—Get a small oil-lamp and kettle, enough to boil a quart of water; when quite boiling it will be enough for two gallons of cold water, and, using a sponge bath, you can have ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. • Various
... be warm, cool, or ice cold, according to the height of the fever. A thorough sponge bath should take from fifteen to twenty minutes. The ice cold sponging is quite as formidable as the full cold bath, for which there is an unsuperable ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter


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