rest cure
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"I've taken a house near here for the holidays, where I'm going in for a Rest Cure of my own description.
"I prefer to call it my Rest Cure," returned Raffles, "and it's really nothing else.
Only remember it really is a Rest Cure. I want to keep literally as quiet as I was without you.
Besides, I should have had no peace; and I meant every word I said about my Rest Cure."
A few hours' enforced Rest Cure was the worst I wished him."
If my father had been able to go round the world, or if she'd had a rest cure, everything would have come right.
"He's staying in the village doing a rest cure, after a bad nervous breakdown.
In sections on the brain, drugs and behavior, and applied neuroscience, she discusses such topics as the double brain, bad vibrations: music on the brain, Victorian explorations of psychoactive drugs, you are what you eat: gut and brain, detoxing the brain, and the "rest cure" revisited.
Indeed the book ends with a section entitled "Rest Cure," which features poems in which the speakers push back against angles and perspectives that don't look right to her.
But it turns out Saranac Lake was an entire town filled with 'cure cottages,' residences devoted to the 'rest cure' for TB.
50 YEARS AGO Struggled with Shepshed accent A 23-years-old American girl, arrived in Shepshed, and said that although she was working in a busy shop, she was finding life in the town like a rest cure, although she was struggling to understand the accent.
REST CURE: Wayne Rooney's been run ragged under Louis van Gaal - and it's not helping anyone
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