rest-cure

1. (Medicine) a rest taken as part of a course of medical treatment, as for stress, anxiety, etc

2. an easy undemanding time or assignment: usually used with a negative: it's no rest-cure, I can assure you.

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rest-cure - rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.

treatment, intervention - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

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Drawing on her own experience, Gilman remarked, "One of the amusing things in a rest-cure is the way the nurses congregate in the invalids' bedchambers and chatter like merry magpies.