1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

The pictures that I have seen on this site of morgues intrigue me. I am an inspiring mortician or as they say now "funeral director". And these pictures are beautiful, they really portray the uniqueness and darkness of the occupation.

If you look at the ceiling, it appears that some of the tiles have rust around them, and at some point, there most likely was an operating table just below the light fixture...I'm sure the stain on the floor had something to do either with the rust as above or the mounting of the OR table to the floor. The little thing hanging down from the track looks to be an IV bag holder.

Well, I gotta tell you, I've used tubs just like this at PT here where I work, you don't have to sit in the tubs necessarily, I was getting therapy for my leg and I just sat on a table beside the machine with my leg in it, and honestagawd, it looked exactly like this machine.

When I was a youngster, I used to take jazz baton lessons, and the building that the studio was in was very old and had creepy locked rooms. Sitting in the back of the entryway into the building, was an iron lung. My mom was the one who told me what the machine was and what it was used for. As I look back on it, I could never understand where that huge machine came from and why it was just shoved into the entry hallway of that old building.

Dewey, it's a BLOOD bank refrigerator, one would store units of blood there (hence the labels) If it was a while back, maybe the units of blood were in glass bottles, I'm uncertain, althought the slots look like they were for holding plastic bags (units) of blood like we administer today.

Hoods are also used in pharmacies for mixing toxic (chemotherapy type toxic) and other types of meds that shouldn't be exposed to the air or accidentally sniffed into one's nose. This is a cool shot of a nice lab area, for sure. My college's should've been this nice.

The jugs look like the bottles one can get a wonderful microbrew ale in from the nearby RenFaire. (And, they're refillable!)

Ah, I must say I how much I've laughed during these comments. Lynne and Charisma, you've missed your true calling as comedy writers....

Amazing, ironing sheets....

I hate to say it, but I still have the ELO album, bought it new way back in the day, I counted my vinyl the other day and I have 180 albums! (Not to mention the 2 stack containers of 45's) Oh yeah, great shot....

I used to work with these machines.

Pretty fun until you get your shirt caught!

These large kettles are not mixer, but Steam Jacket Kettles. The kettles have an inner and outer shell and hot steam is pumped in the space between the shells to cook food. units like these, although more modern, are still in use today.

Bob

Looks like an very old operation roof..?

this iron lung was also used for people that had polio as thier lungs were not developing properly

It most possibly could be fat, seeing as fat, after a period of time, will turn into soap, Go google Female Soap Mummy, I saw a program on it. Its really an amazing shot, and Fat might be removed from a body if one needed to get to a certain organ or item or bone.