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thalassotherapy
thalassotherapy n.
Brit. 
/θəˌlasə(ʊ)ˈθɛrəpi/
, /θəˌlasə(ʊ)ˈθɛrəpi/U.S. /θəˌlæsoʊˈθɛrəpi/
see quot. 1899. [After French thalassothérapie (1865).] /θəˌlæsoʊˈθɛrəpi/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > treatments by baths
warm bath1731
warm bathing1744
sea-bathing1749
sea-bath1785
balneotherapy1881
thalassotherapy1899
spa bath1974
1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Thalassotherapy, treatment of disease by sea bathing, sea voyages, etc.
1910 Index-Catal. Libr. Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army 2nd Ser. XV. 362/1 Nyström (O.E.) Några ord om hafskuren eller thalassotherapien. (A few words on sea-baths and thalassotherapy.) 8°. Göteborg, 1907.
1966 Punch 5 Oct. 531 Thalassotherapy is sea-bathing in a warm, enclosed and controlled area... Pure sea water is pumped in from several hundred metres out.
1983 B. Inglis & R. West Alternative Health Guide 25 Establishments which provide thalassotherapy have been springing up around the continent of Europe..to provide a holiday in which the usual seaside ingredients..are supplemented..by a regime of salt-water treatments.
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