The Rest Cure was a medical treatment combining various physical and mental treatments as well as a surprising diet. When Elizabeth continued to suffer side effects from a bout with typhoid, she underwent a couple rest cures. Out of those experiences came a novel, A Dark Lantern: A Story with a Prologue, that would be made into a film in 1920 starring Alice Brady and James Crane.

Dr. Stiles article, "The Rest Cure, 1873-1925" 

A Dark Lantern Google Book

A Dark Lantern film photos

Cultures of Neurasthenia: From Beard to the First World War

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician

Mrs. Dalloway

The Yellow Wallpaper

Cambridge Springs, PA and the Water Cure 

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