Gunnison Valley News | 1932-06-30 | Page 11 | Soft Shades of Color Found to Cure Lunacy

Britain, has placed sad and depressed mental patients in a red room with stimulating effect and restless and agitated patients In blue rooms with restful effect. Another specialist whose reception office is decorated in soft pastel shades, with subdued pink lights and delicate paintings, said jokingly: "I can only afford to have a room like this because I have private means. Half my patient's are convalescent after half an hour's waiting in here." Soft Shades of Color Found to Cure Lunacy London. The appointment of Paul Poiret, the dress designer and fashion expert, as color designer to the French lunacy authorities has caused a furore In Harley street, a grim foreboding row of early Victorian houses wherein dwell and practice most of Britain's distinguished medical specialists. It has raised the oft-disputed point as to the effect of color on sufferers of the varying illness of Twentieth century civilization. Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, the fa-i fa-i mous lunacy espert, working in Great