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One was a great vogue in the color red.
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There was a vogue to hang red curtains around the bed of a patient.
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Red furniture was brought into the sickroom,
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and patients, including Queen Elizabeth I of England,
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were wrapped in red blankets.
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Later on, the discovery of ultraviolet rays in fact gave
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new impetus to this traditional mania for red,
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and red glass went up on windows.
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In the late nineteenth century, medical journals published
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studies suggesting also that red light could be soothing to the
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eyes of the sufferer, and that perhaps it prevented
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scarring of the skin.