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Rest-cure   /rɛst-kjʊr/   Listen
Rest-cure

noun
1.
Rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc..





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... oculists did not exist in those days. If she were living to-day, it would be pronounced a case of nervous exhaustion, and she would be taken for a sea voyage, or sent to a rest-cure, or treated in one of the hundred different ways that we know of nowadays. But then, nobody knew what to do for her, poor lady. To be 'crossed in love,' as it was called, was a thing that admitted of no cure, unless the patient were willing ...
— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards


Words linked to "Rest-cure" :   treatment, intervention


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