In leaving his habitual circle, the patient escapes the too-attentive care of his relatives, and the incessant questions about his complaint with which they overwhelm him. The results of this regime with semi-insane wrecks are marvellous. It is a very drastic but very successful "rest-cure", and while it cannot be undergone at home, neurasthenics will benefit by following its principles as far as they can in their own homes. High-frequency or static electricity sometimes works wonders in the hands of a specialist, but the electric batteries, medical coils, finger-rings and body-belts so persistently advertised are _useless_. When the patient has in some measure recuperated, he may try the following exercises in mental concentration. Vittoz claims good results from them, but they must be done quite seriously. 1. Walk a few steps with the definite idea that you are putting forward right and left feet alternately. Go on by easy stages until you concentrate on the movement of the whole body. 2. Take any object in your hand, and note its exact form, weight, colour, etc. 3. Look in a shop-window while you count ten, and as you walk on, try to recall all the objects therein exhibited. 4. Accustom yourself to defining the sounds you hear, and concentrating on a special one, as that of a passing tram, or a ticking watch. 5. Make a rapid examination several times daily of your feelings and thoughts, and try to express them definitely. 6. Concentrate on the mental reproduction of a regular curve: a figure 8 placed on its side. 7. Listen to a metronome, and, a friend having stopped it, mentally repeat the ticking to time. 8. Whenever you handle anything, try to retain the impression of that object and its properties for several minutes, to the exclusion of other ideas. 9. Concentrate on ideas of calm, and of energy controlled. 10. Place three objects on a sheet of white paper. Remove them one by one, at the same time effacing the impression of each one as it is removed, until the mind, like the paper, is blank. 11. Efface two of the objects, and retain the impression of one only. 12. Replace the impressions in your mind, but not the objects on the paper, one by one. The object of these exercises is to get your wandering mind daily a little more under control; do not exhaust yourself. After some months of treatment, ask yourself--