1,846 Comments for Linton State Hospital

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Cold day?
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Why the hell is there an "Old Sturbridge Village" sticker on there?
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Sounds like a fun place to work.
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Well Kim, I wouldn't be freaked out by stuff like that. I would probably display them in my front room! Well it would be more of a talking point than a ship-in-a-bottle.... :-p
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My colour-theory teacher brought a box full of 60-70 year old bottles of medicine from the basement of a long un-unused pharmacy for the class to use in a painting assignment, there were many of them with fluid still intact. Varied all the way from mouth-water to fish-oil and various medicines for all kinds of now-non-existing diseases. Was both freaky, disgusting and extremely interesting.

One of the bottles had a curled up bat inside, I thought at first it was a mouse, but then a friend of mine screamed out as she noticed it had wings, ironically enough, the then empty bottle had once been filled with formaldehyde and the bat was very well preserved.
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When the heating and ventilation systems get shut off and water gets inside the tile edges start to curl. Winter freeze/thaw cycles then 'pull' the tiles right off glue that adheres them to the floor.
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Hmmmmm....lead paint anyone??
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speaks volumes
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it looks like a bobbin of thread on it, I dont even want to know why they would need to *thread* anything , lol
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Owwwwwwwww!!!!!! 8`-(
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I straped to on exactly like that when I was little. Lynne, it's not a textile machine! You get strapped to it face up and they slowly strach you so you spine and muscles return to their original place.
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I KNEW THERE WAS A SIMPLE EXPLAINATION. THANKS adat.
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Thanks, Jane! It's easier to see more of the picture if you've actually walked the walk, isn't it?
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Iron lung may not be PC, but it saved a lot of lives.
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truly, I'm glad you all find this disturbing. It means that because of the vaccine, you aren't familiar with all this. It wasn't at all uncommon when I was a kid to see people on crutches who'd had polio as kids. It isn't so common now, thank God. Although it is only beaten back, not gone. AOL news reported five cases among the Amish in Minnesota last week.