1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

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I have always wondered, how would you go to the bathroom in one of those things.
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wow - at work i quite regularly have to put my hands in water baths set to 60 degrees C. I can now tell work that they're officially 'scalding' me - and it's not just me being wimpy!
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Henry - I don't know if you still check here but i was wondering how tight the collar would get? Because it'd have to be fairly tight to make an air seal, but not so tight as to close the airways of the patient. Would it be uncomfortable? And if a seal was not properly made, would there be air rushing down your neck? My apologies if the questions are annoying or intrusive.
Carrie
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It's the INSNOFLEX!

Beware! Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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the stage looks like piano keys
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ms valley village calif I was in one in the epidemic in 1948 at 7 yrs old.I remember it as if it was yesterday.Thanks mom for helping me
come back.8 years later i swam in the city swim championships on one breath
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carbon arc lights were commonly used in projetors and theater spotlights for many years. The carbon rods burn with a bright light and create smoke that has to be vented.
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It looks like it would be great for washing small children in with the hose. I need one.
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Looks to me like a woman in the chair. Mother of healing? Or woman who can control her rats (kids)?
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Yeah, my school headmaster was in one of these as a child.
I have a Time Magazine picture book and people use to decorate their iron lungs with pictures and stuff ( I thought that was pretty cool)
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I said this before... I saw one for sale on EBAY and the seller actually got in it and turned it on. He said it put alot of pressure on his chest.
Can you imagine getting stuck in one of these and calling the fire birgade to get you out?
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if these idiots ever saw all the children who were swimming one day and the next were in these iron lungs growing old they would not make these stupid statements thats why it was called infantile paralyses
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It was this tub and the "Physio therapy " (known as physical therapy today)that brought me back from being paralyzed. Amazing I haven't seen one of these in over 60 years.
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My book "The Baby's Cross" tells of some of the happenings. inside Lakeville. It can be bought on Amazon.com. Enjoy
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having been a patient for several years, This jolts my memory as the place that they put on the plaster body casts. They suspended you so that they could just keep wrapping the plaster around your body. charlie is right.