1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

it actually looks like part of a "widdows walk" that was seen so often on the outside upper floors of old buildings.... as for a playpen, youd have to be "super baby" to break out of there!

Looks like they closed up shop just after lunch (notice clock on wall)

this place is clean enough to still be open!
Great shot!

I hope those copper pipes laying on the floor were used for "the other" kind of plumbing and not part of the examination equipment !

Could be a cartoon character or a sports mascot, there were similar stickers on the others too. There could've been a younger person in one of these for a long time.

The machines don't tilt, and the patient must be on their backs at all times for the pressure to push the air in and out of their chests properly.

It could just be me...... but.............
the Sticker - above the hand written Note / Order -- looks like a cartoon Charactor / Animal - A Fox or Raccoon..... with his hand pinching his nose closed... and I just thought it was really ---- im looking for a word (or 2) here.... profoundly strange?

Nope... it has actually been a major point of my friend to find one at some point, a holy grail if you will... it took a few years of searching before seeing these!

There is one more older iron lung in worse shape than these that he is still looking for. I hope to find an authentic electro-shock therapy device in somewhere other than a museum, myself.

What would a person do all day (weeks, months, years) in a machine like that ? Did a patient always have to lay flat on their back? or did the machine tilt to a more upward position?

This is a major find! Great Picture but stirrs up real saddness.... have you ever seen these machines in any other hospitals youve been to motts?

Ive seen shampoo and liquid handsoap that look similar to that also, but........ they werent in a morgue on a slab! lol

Now this one I really do like,you can imagine it as being from a movie with some horrid fanged and clawed thing just leaping out.

It really isn't that bad looking.I've seen shampoo and liquid handsoap that looks similar to that.

Always something new and interesting here.This place isn't creepy and doesn't pulse with negative energy like Pennhurst and it doesn't have a fairy tale feel like the enchanted forest but it is a very fascinating building.What I like about this gallery is,is all the close up and personal photos of all sorts of medical/lab equipment.These machines,especially the iron lungs almost take on a life of their own.

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