It is rest for your brain that you now need.

Go into the country, confine yourself to a regular and healthy diet: vegetables, white meat, milk in the morning, a very little wine, but, above all things, no coffee.

Take moderate exercise, hunt--and avoid all irritating thoughts; read the 'Musee des familles' or the 'Magasin Pittoresque'.

This regime will have the effect of a soothing poultice upon your brain, and before the end of six months you will be in your normal condition again.' "'Six months!' I exclaimed.

'You wretch of a doctor, tell me, then, to let my beard and nails grow like Nebuchadnezzar.