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'''Quartz Windows''' are mentioned in Chapter 35: "The [[Stonaker | '''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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [[Will | Quartz windows were also installed in the solarium in [[Will Rogers Hospital|Will Rogers Hospital]]; a 1929 ''New York Times'' story claimed that it was largest solarium in the world. | ||
Revision as of 11:25, 23 December 2025
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 [[1]], 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.