2,646 Comments for Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital

A real awe inspiring gallery Motts. Thanks again for the best of the best.

Most people who would look into this room would only see a pile of junk,but not Mr. Motts

If it was a demineralizer wouldn't it remove minerals?

Sure would hold a lot of change or whatever you put in it huh?

I think,Fla.Gator nailed it.

What ever it is ,it is a mystery for the ages

Doubled barreled what ever it is.

Even though this TB Hospital is different in color & look so far. It does follow Waverly Hills with the outside terraces for pts to be wheeled out on.....cool. Its interesting that they thought this would help pts with TB.

Ohh, Giant Good n Plenty's!

Motts nailed this. This is a very old (likely 1940's) era urology equipment. Urology systems have short tables and styrops to allow the specialist to work on the patients lower regions. The trumpet style collimator is a tell-tale sign of its age... at the time the radiographer would substitute the collimator depending on the size of the x-ray field desired ... This is where the term "coning down" comes from which is still widely used to describe the process of adjusting the x-ray field (these days there are lead blades controlled by knobs so no pieces are swapped to achieve the desired field)

Motts, you are definitely correct... This is a tilting table for a flouro system. Many flouro procedures are used for barium gastro-intestinal contrast studies and by positioning the patient in a standing to a horizontal to a trendelenburg (feet over the head in a minus 15 degree tilt) the contrast is sloshed around trough the patient and problems are exposed

I loves me a new old gallery of Motts pictures......awesome!!!

Not good place to be if someoneopened the door to push something in?

I can see why that was never moved.

Such a lonely picture?