Silas Weir Mitchell

…Developed with the best of intentions by the physician Silas Weir Mitchell in the 1870s, it prescribed complete bed rest sometimes for months, combined with isolation from any mentally stimulating activity, including reading, writing or conversation.…

…The specific treatment for hysteria that has attracted the most commentary in the years since is the Rescure, developed and popularised by the American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell in the 1870s and applied extensively to women in both American and British medical practice through the final decades of the century.…