THE NEW NERVE CUBE.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 9 (Supplement)

THE NEW NERVE CUBE.

The fashionable cure for bad nerves (says the writer of "Notes from Paris" in Truth) is staying in bed. It began in the lunatic asylum of Ste. Anne. Dr. Manqui thought confinement of his mad patients in warm baths torture. They used to be placed in a warm bath with a lid that resembled ft pillory in. having a hole for the head to pass through. Three or four hours of this treatment rendered the excitable lunatic submissive. He or she was limp as a rag. Dr. Manqui could not bear to see a depresed patient who had gone through, the warm bath. What he asked himself, if I coax them to go to bed, and stay there when the tantrum is coming on? The beds were made more elasflic and otherwise improved. The patients were glad to lie down. Friends were allowed, when they were in bed, to visit them, and asked to talk cheerfully. Three hours a day were allowed for exercise. This regimen "worked wonders. It is now applied to all kinds of sufferers from high pressure, over-amusement, over-excitement, and what not. A General, whom the Dreyfus affair sent daft, has been in bed for the last three weeks, and is now literally all serene.