It is either 1250 or 1260 offset press. It is most definitely NOT a mimeograph machine.

Addresograph is a brand name but you guys are right: it was used to make the metal ID plates for patients. This plate was used to stamp the patient's information on charts, etc.

I wonder if the people put in these contraptions came out looking like a chicken that had been cooked in a RONCO rotisserie!

Scary as hell! And to think this treatment was the most advanced treatment for VD back then and we consider it almost barbaric. Makes you wonder what future generations will think of our advanced treatments of today.