In 1875 I published in "Seguin's Series of American Clinical Lectures,"
Vol. I., No. iv., a brief sketch of this treatment, under the heading
of "Rest in the Treatment of Nervous Disease," but the scope afforded
me was too brief for the details on a knowledge of which depends success
in the use of rest, I have been often since reminded of this by the many
letters I have received asking for explanations of the minutiae of
treatment; and this must be my apology for bringing into these pages a
great many particulars which are no doubt well enough known to the more
accomplished physician.
In the preface to the second edition I said that as yet there had been
hardly time for a competent verdict on the methods I had described.
Since making this statement, many of our profession in America have
published cases of the use of my treatment. It has also been thoroughly
discussed by the medical section of the British Medical Association, and
warmly endorsed by William Playfair, of London, Ross of Manchester,
Coghill, and others; while a translation of my book into French by Dr.
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