climatotherapyn.
/ˌklʌɪmətəˈθɛrəpi/, U.S. /ˌklaɪmədəˈθɛrəpi/ Medicine.
The treatment of disease or ill health by travel to a place with a beneficial climate.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by fresh air, sunlight, etc. > [noun]
insolation1626
air bath1746
sea-bath1785
sun cure1853
air cure1856
climatotherapy1875
mountain cure1876
heliotherapy1890
climatotherapeutics1896
1875 Lancet 15 May 693/1 The fourth [book deals] with the balneotherapy and climatotherapy of chronic pulmonary consumption.
1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 267/1 During the next fifty years..massage, hydrotherapy and climatotherapy were fitted into their present exact places in the medical scheme of things.
1986 P. H. Hutton et al. Hist. Dict. Third French Republic II. 1020 Climatotherapy was a thriving branch of medicine during the nineteenth century, as was hydrotherapy, and many small villages blossomed into major resorts because of their mineral springs or invigorating climates.
2005 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Dermatol. 52 445 We sought to determine the prevalence of solar damage and skin cancer among patients with psoriasis who underwent Dead Sea climatotherapy compared with control patients.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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