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From: Mental Health Nursing
Date: 20020901
Author:Rushforth, David

Editorial

In Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, one of the chums goes to his physician complaining of a variety of ailments, symptoms and general distress. The doctor writes him a prescription which reads: eight hours sleep, half pound of beefsteak, one pint of ale and three mile walk. To be taken daily

In other words, he believed appropriate rest, the pleasure of eating and drinking moderately and gentle exercise would relieve whatever distress was troubling the patient.

The benefits of exercise are proclaimed so regularly today that the messages seem like background noise, often ...

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