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'''Quartz Windows''' are mentioned in Chapter 35: "The [[Stonaker Cottage|Stonaker Cottage]]" in [[Phil Gallos|Philip L. Gallos]]'s book, [[Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake|Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake]], page 137. He writes that [[Edwin R. Stonaker |Edwin R. Stonaker ]]"was an advocate of [[ | '''Quartz Windows''' are mentioned in Chapter 35: "The [[Stonaker Cottage|Stonaker Cottage]]" in [[Phil Gallos|Philip L. Gallos]]'s book, [[Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake|Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake]], page 137. He writes that [[Edwin R. Stonaker |Edwin R. Stonaker ]]"was an advocate of [[Wikipedia:Light_therapy#History|heliotherapy]], which had been found effective against many non-pulmonary kinds of tuberculosis and for pulmonary TB with complications; so he had the octagon [his cure porch] equipped with special windows--quartz windows, they were called--that would admit ultraviolet light. . . In the early 1940s . . . [[Irving Edelberg|Irving 'Bud' Edelberg]] [whose parents rented the house then] remember[d] that on bright winter days he and his brother, John, would lounge in their shorts by the big quartz windows. If they stayed there long enough, they could get a tan." | ||
Quartz windows were also installed in the solarium in [[ | Quartz windows were also installed in the solarium in [[Will Rogers Hospital]]; a 1929 ''New York Times'' story claimed that it was largest solarium in the world. | ||
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Quartz Windows are mentioned in Chapter 35: "The Stonaker Cottage" in Philip L. Gallos's book, Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, page 137. He writes that Edwin R. Stonaker "was an advocate of heliotherapy, which had been found effective against many non-pulmonary kinds of tuberculosis and for pulmonary TB with complications; so he had the octagon [his cure porch] equipped with special windows--quartz windows, they were called--that would admit ultraviolet light. . . In the early 1940s . . . Irving 'Bud' Edelberg [whose parents rented the house then] remember[d] that on bright winter days he and his brother, John, would lounge in their shorts by the big quartz windows. If they stayed there long enough, they could get a tan."
Quartz windows were also installed in the solarium in Will Rogers Hospital; a 1929 New York Times story claimed that it was largest solarium in the world.