1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

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Wow it seems so perfect it almost doesn't seem real!
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Wow, this looks like if you took a bath in it, it would be your last!
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In the front and also near the back it looks like someone has urinated on the floor.
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THAT IS AWESOME
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Notice all the copper. A small fortune to be had! I actually worked at this place a few years back. I am a hazmat spec. We were there to clean up alot of waste that was there. wow the stories i have about this hospital!
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thats a great picture. its a shame those sons of bitches are tearing it down
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wow- this looks like my bedroom window- seriously. I wonder if they could climb out onto the roof.
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This should be called "Going into the light"
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I have a book thats rare and out of print: Surgical Errors and Safeguards by Max Thorek -1932. It's one of my Christmas Presents lol. I'm happy that I found a copy though it's worth it. 600 some illustrations.
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I live about 5 minuts from here. This place is huge, except there tearing it down for apartments.
Which stinks. I've been to the cementary to here.
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The contrast of the written word between the new and old is quite dramatic. Older written books (on any subject) are much more text heavy than the modern ones that rely mostly on pictures to get their point across. Where is the happy medium? Volumes written in the 50's and 60's seems to be the best cross-section of text and photos.
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P.S. I am betting that this particular book is pretty easy to find. I am sure we still have a copy or two where I currently work and I have seen copies of these at all the different facilities I have worked at.
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Ooooh! Me too! I have several shelves of old medical books I have collected that I keep at work and boxes and boxes and boxes of vintage books at home that aren't quite so "scientific" but are vastly superior to most books written today. Well, except for the fact that the older books tend to be incredibly moralistic. However, the writing style and the vocabulary are both incredible. At work recently in the old library I found a first edition Gray's Anatomy. Yes, you may well stare, as I believe there were only two thousand copies of the first edition printed. [Beams happily, wishes she owned it personally]
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Hmm might see if there is a copy on Ebay -- One of those things you need to have a check into. I'm a collection whore for vintage reads medical books especially.
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That's a bitchin' safe.