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For nerves a-tingle and minds in confusion C OLOR EXCITED, overwrought nerves, vibrating like a violin string under the bow--throwing normal mental reactions into chaos. Here is a common state of mind in mod ern life. What can the hospital do to calm tingling nerves--restore the XI i . Men and women are af1 Y UlC. fecKd by theit surround* ings. Their minds are likely to be especially susceptible to outward iro* pressions in a hospital. Unpleasant mental reactions -- often having a harmful effect on the physical recovery of a patient--can be overcome to a the room, size of the room, etc., to consider in selecting the right tints andshadesthatitisinadvisabletotry to make the same ones do for several hospitals without careful consider ation. Each room should be con sidered as a separate color problem. ordered functioning of the brain? Prescribe special treatments? Yes. And place the patient in a special room--in an atmosphere made more soothing and restful large extent by the physical appear ance ofhospital interiors in general-- by the color treatment of walls and ceilings in particular. This article, with others in the series, discusses col or in relation to the various groups of Dutch Boy paint for all No matter what color you do use, you can easily obtain it by tinting paint made of Dutch Boy white- than usual by proper use of the individuals to be found in a hospital. lead and Dutch Boy flatting oil with right colors. the proper coloring pigment. You It has been proved that certain colors, when placed on walls and ceilings ofhospital rooms and wards, help to produce certain mental re actions. Where patients are espe cially sensitive to color, the influ ence of color in creating a certain atmosphere, and thus in inducing a certain state of mind, is proportion ately greater. Where else in the hos pital, then, could color be more effec tively used than on the walls of special rooms for nerve cases? Cheerful warmth or soothing coolness Two questions arise in connection with colors for walls of such rooms. The first concerns the correct colors to use. The second has to do with the tints and shades of those colors. Hospitals have proved that the ideal color for creating soothing, quieting impressions is a green--per haps a blue-green, called a cool green; or a yellow-green, known as a warm green. One hospital has used the following paint treatment in rooms for nervous patients: For the ceiling ... A light yellow, made by adding French ochre to Dutch &oy white-lead. For the upper side wall ... A yel low-green, obtained by mixing medium chromeyellow and medi um chrome green with Dutch Boy white-lead. For the dado ... A deeper green than above, made by mixing French ochre and Chinese blue with Dutch Boy white-lead. For the wood trim ... A light yel low, a mixture of medium chromeyellow, French ochre and Dutch Boy white-lead. What colors should you use? This color treatment is in actual use today. But it does not follow that the same treatment will be suitable for your hospital. There are so many factors--illumination, location ' of can get a beautiful, durable wall finish that can be washed as often as necessary' without harming the paint film. To help superintendents,, adminis tration boards and painters :in select ing the colors which will have the greatest and best influence on their patients, our Department jof Color Research and Decoration has been es tablished. Color specialists who have made a study of hospital decoration will help you prepare paint specifications. They will furnish color samples of the rec ommended colors and also painting formulas. If you have any questions re garding the -groper colors to use anywhere in your hospital, write our Department of Color Research and Decoration, in care of our nearest branch of fice. Our men will gladly work with you without expense to you in selecting a color treat ment for your entire hospital or atiy room in it. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York, m Broadway * Boston. 300 Albany St. Buffalo. 116 Oak Street < Chicago* j8th Street, Cincinnati. 659 Freeman Avenue r Cleveland, 8iO W. Superior Avenue * St. Louis, 721 Chestnut Street'San Francisco, 4S? California Street r Pittsburgh,National Lead & Oil Co. of Pa., j6 Fourth Avenue * Philadel phia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street Reprint of Advertisement from Th e Mo d er n Ho s pit al , February, 1927, issue. 0000-NLI-000017657