1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

Ayne, yeah, that is definitely a rocky horror moment. except you had every color of the rainbow being poured into that tank of water. still the best movie ever!! and i think the other one would most likely be air, making it hot water, cold water, vacuum, air, and gas.

i know that there is venial and arterial cleansers, stabilizers, and rejuvinators that are added to the formaldehyde before the blood replacement process, that might be those. just an older type.

like i said in the other picture of this, its a death ray :D

Motts, depending on location, they can be refrigerated or brought to below freezing temperature to keep everything intact. been to the morgue with my dad in Dayton, Ohio and when we got the body, just freezing cold air came out. i asked the lady in charge and she told me that the inside temp is 39F.

its an awesome death ray!! looks like an uber large CRT in the middle though... then again badly set CRT's can give off X-rays which can be harmful in large doses...

Deceased unknown, most embalmers and funeral homes use those blocks... its not really all that embarrassing

Looks more like a stairway

i think its a bone-setting jig. nothing more sinister. presumably to b,e used in conjunction with an x-ray. hHopefully rthe patient would be sedated.

Thanks for the clarification, pretty interesting machinery! I don't remember any other controls except for the manual bellows, but I could have overlooked them, as these are the first and only iron lungs that I've ever seen before.

@ Jack. The iron lungs are air tight so no air enters or leaves them this is so that when the bellows is at the closed state, the chamber pressure is higher than outside forcing air from the lungs and when the bellows is at the open state the chamber pressure is lower than outside creating the condition that will draw air into the lung. It works like a human diapragm only using the bellows to adjust pressure not muscles.
@ Maggy. An MRI machine is quite a bit different than this although it does have an Aperture that kind of resembles this. MRI, PET and CT systems all have an aperture and a table used to position the patient in the device.

Remarkable photo! This shows the adjustment that will compensate for the volume of air the lungs must inhale and expel and the frequency of the breaths. As not all lungs are the same size, an adjustment is necessary to both volume and rate. Given that the system is primarily driven by a motor with a cam connected to a leather bellows, I'd imagine that shortening the cam would increase frequency and lengthing the shaft that connects the cam to the bellows would increase the volume. Did you see any other adjustments?

Seeing pictures of the Iron Lung brings back memories I will never forget. At the age of Five, I was stricken with polio. I was confined to an Iron Lung for months. It was horrifying for a child alone. Only seeing parents on weekends. But I thank God I survived and have been able to live a good life, with the aid of braces and crutches and now wheelchairs. Thank God for healthy children, America.

This is an interesting setup. What is pictured is a fairly standard overhead tube crane used for postioning and a fairly standard collimator used to reduce the dose of x-rays. I am facinated by the tube however as it is an unusual shape. The silver cap will be covering the anode and the smaller button shaped feature is over the cathode. typical tubes have a cylindrical enclosure with ports for the anode and cathode in a completely different location. Looks like a small diameter anode therefore it would have a low kiloheat unit (KHu) rating and be for light duty. Also radiographic only examinations for urology studies have been out of vogue since the 1960's placing this system from then or earlier.

What a beast! I'd hate to get my sleeve caught in that!

Oh, it is totally watching you...