1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

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Anybody has any questions about the iron lung go to my youtube channel henrysbigmouth or email me henrykl1971@gmail.com
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Charlene
There are two little sticks type things and grab those and the whole collar moved then thightend.
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The iron lungs here were used for guys with muscular dystrophy. I new them all. I used one myself there. The guys were in them more than I was because they a different form of MD then me. Please feel free to email me with questions. Henrykl1971@gmail.com
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Awesome old picture!!!
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What did you do when you had to go to the bathroom and were in one of these things?
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WHAT????? EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And why do they need the name of sports teams for anyway?
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In my school's cafeteria, some kids got 2 milk cartons. The lunch ladies were fine with that. I get one carton only.
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after looking at the 'fat' jar picture, I really dont wish to think about drinking milk.
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i remember when i was a little kid me and my friends raised a bunch of money for some one to get a ir lung and i was wondering i think one of the persons names was henry it was so long ago /henry did you get yours from the march of dimes /we took flowers from old peoples and young// yards and made little bunhes in dixi cups and sold them there was alot of rose bushes in the nabor hood with no roses or other flowers to be founde we worked hard to help someone get one /
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i wonder how long the rods lasted burning in these old timers
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Usually I can read it off from the original high resolution photo.
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Motts, how do you remember what certain signs say? Do you write it down, or do you take closer pictures?
thanks
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That grey color that the cabinets and drawers are painted must be a standard for most labs. We have a lab here at work that's for tobacco and paper moisture content checks and the cabinets are the same grey color!
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I took psychology last semester.
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They're for sterilization of surgical trays. They looks pretty much the same as the ones I use in the hospitals I've worked in for years. You would wrap a tray of equiptment in special paper with striped tape and put it in the autoclave and when they instruments inside have been fully cleaned the stripes on the tape turns black. It's interesting how they haven't changed much.