444 Comments for St Ebba's Hospital

Boy, I don't have a clue - sorry.

Run, Forest, run!

Motts these are great ..I sure wish I could do what you do!! How interesting

Most likely this was used for water distillation. Water is heated up, changed to vapor which then exits the container through the smaller output tube on the top - the water vapor then recondenses back to a liquid in a purer form in another collecting container. Impurities whose melting/vaporization point is much higher than water is left behind in the container with the heating coil.

This process can be used to separate any two liquids capable of existing as a gas at sufficiently different boiling points.

i.e. If liquid A becomes a gas at 120F and Liquid B becomes a gas 212F and the two are mixed together in one container they can be separated again by heating the container up to 150F. Liquid A will become a gas while liquid B will remain a liquid. The gas can then be collected and cooled back to its lquid form.

There are some corollary rules depending on the composition of the substances being distilled. (Some substances may actually break down when they are heated so that they never regain their original liquid form during condensation). This is particularly true of liquids made up of several different substances all of which may have differing boiling points.

In most environments this is done to purify water. However, in a medical environment perhaps they were actually interested in the substances left behind from distillation.

Sodium or other minerals from urine for analysis perhaps? An early way to identify calcium oxalate? - The last is speculation on my part. Lynne...opinions??

It is an ethical thing.

My sister was born with cancer (Neruoblastoma) and that bent her spine Scholiosis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliosis ).

For years she had to wear a modern equivalent of that body brace and has a much straighter back now because of it.

Unfortunately, the only permanent treatment is spinal fusion to correct the curve.

chris - currently I use a Canon 5D with a Sigma 12-24, Canon 24-70L, and a Canon 75-300, with 6 gigs of memory.

It all adds to a vast collection of memories I wouldn't give up for anything :-)

Some buildings are definitely abandoned; this storage area was most likely disused, not quite the same...

It does look like Cheltenham without the 'm'... maybe it was a sloppy / quick impression.

That IS interesting. Can't think of any reason. It's against just about every building code I can think of. Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?

Don't think it's 'Cheltenly', we haven't got one of those- maybe Cheltenham?

Ooh, lovely. Everything us so.. centered and serious looking... what I would expect from a 100 year old photograph. I like it very much.

Oh, that is nice. :3

Oh, you are lucky to find such a thing. I wish I could see the things that you see. I'd imagine it must feel sort of... personal, does it?

Im pretty sure the needle isn't threaded, Joe. It does sort to f look like it, though.