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rest cure

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1.(Med.) Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.
Translations
rest cure n → cura de reposo
rest cure n → cure f de repos
rest cure rest n → Erholung f
rest cure n → cura del riposo


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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.
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If my father had been able to go round the world, or if she'd had a rest cure, everything would have come right.
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He's staying in the village doing a rest cure, after a bad nervous breakdown.
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