ABSTRACT
Rest methods are applicable not only to the great neuroses, neurasthenia, hysteria, and hypochondria, but also to various other functional nervous diseases. Especially are they applicable to chorea. Indeed, the chorea of childhood frequently yields to simple or partial rest methods alone. The indications are those of increased rest, full feeding, and sponge bathing. Occasionally rest, with general physiologic measures, is applicable in epilepsy. In cases made worse for the time being by unphysiologic living or by overstrain, are able to lessen the frequency of the seizures and to diminish the amount of medicine required. Exercise, and especially open-air work, must, of course, constitute a prominent feature in any plan of treatment that is Instituted. Rest methods are also occasionally of value in functional spasms and functional tremor, though permanent results are never achieved. Many forms of headache are relieved by systematic rest in bed, and it becomes of importance to select cases suited to this mode of treatment.
