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For the mender of bones and the foiler of death-- J\Jnf-o Men and women are * affected by their sur roundings. Their minds are likely to be especially susceptible to out ward impressions in a hospital. Unpleasant mental reaction-- often having a harmful effect on the physical recovery ofa patient--can be overcome to a large extent by the physical appearance of hospital interiors in general--by the color treatment of walls and ceilings in particular. This article, with others in the series, discusses color in rela tion to the various groups of indi viduals to be found in a hospital. COLOR THE surgeon poises his scalpel white. Of the various colors adopt --makes the incision. Intense ed, grays and gray greens have concentration marks every movper obably been most satisfactory. It would be inadvisable to assume that your operating room should have' the same treatment. Such ment as he continues the operation. Below is an actual color treat factors as the amounts of natural He looks up. For a second he seeks relief from eye-strain. He turns his eyes on the wall of the operating room--and blinks. His ment in use today in an operating room. It was recommended by color specialists of National Lead Company's Department of Color and artificial illumination received, the location of the room, its size, as well as the cdlor preference of the surgeon in charge, vary with eyes close--dazzled by the glare of Research and Decoration after hospitals, and separate recommen white-coated walls or disturbed by consultation with the hospital au dations should bemadein each case. some unrestful color. thorities. These specialists are men Our Department of Color Re Nothing should be present in an operating room which might inter fere with the surgeon's operating efficiency. With that in mind many hospitals have banned white from who have made an intensive study of color and its use in hospital dec oration. They are working with hospital administration boards, su perintendents and architects thru search and Decoration will, with out expense to you, work with you in deciding what colors to use. And no matter what tint or shade your operating room (or any other part operating-room walls. They have out the country, preparing paint of your hospital); requires, you can found that certain colors which are specifications, painting formulas always obtain it easily by adding restful and soothing to the eye and color samples. They have rec the proper tinting material to paint tend to make the surgeon's work ommended color treatments for made of Dutch Boy white-lead and less of a strain and help him to even greater efficiency. Here in the operating room there is no problem of selecting the proper color to produce a favorable mental reaction on a patient's mind. The problem is one of visi bility--of helping 'to make the sur geon's work a little easier--of aid ing him to mend broken bones and operating rooms and other parts of tne hospital for institutions in every state. Here is the treatment adopted by one hospital for its operating room: Ceiling ... A light yellow, just off white. Obtained by mixing French ochre and Dutch Boy white-lead. Dutch Boy flatting oil--a paint that is durable, washable and eco nomical in every; way. If you have any question re garding the use qr selection of colors in your hospital, address our Department of Color Research &nd Deco ration in care of our near est branch. save lives. Side walls ... A gray, made by adding French ochre, lampblack NATIONAL LEAD COM-PANY i Grays and gray greens suitable and Venetian red to Dutch Boy New York, j 11 Broadway * Boston, 800 Albany St. r Buffalo, 116 Oak Street; * Chicago, 900 West :8th Various color treatments have been white-lead. Street * Cincinnati, 659; Freeman Avenue * Cleve land, 8ao West Superior Avenue r St. Louis, 7H used in operating rooms by hospi Trim ... A finish just off white, Chestnut Street * San: Francisco, 48s California tals thruout the country. Nearly all have been improvements over obtained by adding French ochre to Dutch Boy white-lead. Street r Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. of Penna., 316 Fourth Avehue * Philadelphia, John T. Lewis &. Bros. Co., 4S 7 Cficscnuc Street. Reprint of Advertisement from Th e Mo d er n Ho s pit al , April, 1927, issue.