1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

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I think hh is on to something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfP2X6wT5Q

But how did the lung keep functioning if the pressure was breached by hands?

I'd love to know more about this place. I wonder what the purpose of this was...

Wow....it makes me cry when I think about these poor people in these iron lungs... i am so thankful that my 2 lungs are working fine.

aww how sweet!!! the playpen against the pastel pink looks like a nursery or a baby's room!!

that must be 3 feet deep!!!

the more crap thats hanging off the walls, the more interesting!!

These big pot that you see are not mixers, they are steam jacket kettles for cooking. Large institutions were heated by steam from huge boilers from a central heating plant - or sometimes two. The steam was then piped all over the grounds to heat all the buildings. In the food service kitchens, expecially those that fed a large amount of people, the steam was used for cooking. The pots are double walled with a space in between. When the steam valve is turned on the steam - over 212 degress - would fill and circulate in the space inside the pots. The food was put in the pot and that is the way it was cooked. It is very efficient system. In newer places today that have access to steam, they use the same technology only on a smaller scale. I worked at Marquette University and a lot of the older kitchens have these same pots...some even larger. Likewise, I worked at Briggs & Stratton's main kitchen and they have 4 pots that are bigger that these.

whats in those jars? looks like banana pudding!!! lol

there was story about a 14 yearold boy being in a ironlung in 1948 very interesting like being in a wheel chair ateenager can take it better then an adult sa movie should hav eben made the good part he was close to home so hos class mates cpi;d voset and it might have been one of the first hospitol TV's

My mom was stricken with Polio and was pregnant with me....I was born in an iron lung..almost 60 yrs ago..My mom was not so lucky she did not survive a day after I was born..

Thank you for this site it sure has opened my eyes!
Makes me sad to think that this is where my mother was...must not be easy to be in one.
God bless all of you that have had polio and managed to overcome most of what this horrid disease does.

Thanks again in so many ways..

C

Those dispense THE best soap and cookies.

Think Happy thoughts...like soap dispensers. :-)

My mind is in the 'gutter' on this one, I can find a use having nothing to do Medicine or death or immobility (Except by the willing participant ;-) ) It all becomes sensual anatomical exploration of your partner.

That's just me.