1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

i found some great information online today from 2005 on iron lungs and polio. the title of the web article is "Survivors to Revisit the Polio Scare." you can see the rest of the article, if interested, in their 2005 archive section: http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom
the article publication date is March 10, 2005.

here is the paragraph i would like to quote from the site, and share with you all:

"Inside the iron lung
The so-called iron lung was the first effective treatment for patients so severely paralyzed they couldn't breathe. First used in 1928 in an 8-year-old girl with polio at Children's Hospital Boston, it consisted of a tank made by a local tinsmith and a pair of vacuum cleaner blowers. As the machine breathed for her, the girl revived and later asked for ice cream. Later, as demand grew, hospitals moved to room-sized respirators. ''I had space for four patients all sticking their heads out from this room with their bodies inside,'' wrote Children's physician James Wilson, ''and we could get inside with them and care for them.'' Clinicians also gave care through portholes, initially purchased from a Boston shipyard; if a porthole was opened at the wrong moment, the patient would have his breath knocked out of him. Former patients can describe living in respirators for months on end, never leaving to be bathed or changed, eating flat on their backs, relying on nurses to feed them and mirrors to see around them. During power outages, hospital staff - even doctors - took turns pumping the respirators with a bellows."

given the choice between death and more than a year in one of these id choose death

Hey - Lewis: I see an image (on the metal container) as well.
Definitely looks like a face.

i dont get it :(... and how does it work?????????????????????

I am sitting here at work looking at these and reading the comments....on my cd player Pink Floyd....the song Breathe...somethings just happen!

I enjoy all the comments and the insite to things we see here on this site. and I just cant stop looking at it all day long...Hope I dont get fired!!

Van Gogo: I know what you mean I worked at a place when I was in high school. We made soups and mac & Cheese in the one we had. and using that paddle to mix it with the cheese in it was not easy.....and I am 6'-1"!

Ok I need a second milk...cause after reading all the comments all my milk came out my nose! ok..not funny you guys!

Nice Bottle I want it!!

WHAT DID YOU SAY!!!!! Come here Right Now....I am gonna wash yout mouth out with SOAP!!!!!!!

Sorry couldn't help it!

It really is "Clean" compaired to the rest of the place. and that fact that Jars and instruments are around still and that the looters havent found them yet is very cool. Thanks for the insite to these places Motts!!

I like how the distorted plaster on the wall looks as if souls are trying to push their way out of the walls.

Thats a great shot. And just think all that decay is 95% caused by what we need most to be alive......water.
Hey Mr. Motts do these places reek of dampness-mold. I know one sheet of sheet rock crumbling from water damage smeels pretty bad but the whole place doing it must be something. But you can almost sense it in the photos you shoot. but to really sense it you would have to be there. I guess you can re-live some of the smells and feelings of the rooms as you view the photo's afterwards just as you are still there.

Cant wait to get up in the cupola! But sure wouldn't want to have been the roofer! Thats a pitched roof!

Amy the hospital is the ones who painted them and another thing they would do is switch the picture tube in the tv sets so when the guys were in them it would be going in the right way. anyone has questions email me garfieldhen34@aol.com

Good for you Motts!!!!! Just keep exploring for us Thank you