Arenation

Arenation is a kind of therapeutic dry bath, in which hot sand is sprinkled upon a patient. The term is from the Latin arenatio, from arena, "sand". Part of the training for gladiators in ancient Rome involved a form of arenation, in which they sunbathed nude on a sandy beach.

References

• Webster's 1828 Dictionary
• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]