Laboratory

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In a room on this floor a few folks that I know found some microbiology slides with brain matter as the featured subject of study.

Radical Ed

Wed 02-23-2005

I thought the room was another one.. a narrow research room that I believe used to have two ladders?

Liz (Organism)

Thu 02-24-2005

It was in another room, as I had stated. Unfortunately, the ladders are gone there now. I have a pic of the room with them, taken about two years ago.

Radical Ed

Fri 02-25-2005

All of these labs were a result of the testing that a major drug manufacturer sponsored. I assume that they did testing and experiments on patients and probably animals as there is the rooftop lab

RedDragon

Thu 04-21-2005

This room look sweet. how the fuck do i get to it...

Ashley

Thu 06-09-2005

This whole building was a statement. Basically showcasing the money they had spent on "care of the mentally ill". But what went on in there was sick. as RD said, the major pharmacutical companies at the time (the building opened in 1950), needed labrats so we today could benefit from such spectacular drugs as boner pills and birth control, among many others. All the "psycoactive" drugs we have today came at the cost of many lives from this building and all like it throughout the country. Hence the reason for an autopsy room with student seating, and a good size morgue, 10 on ice at a time. What a shame

Fri 06-17-2005

OMG! GD has a soul! Who wuld have know it! LoL.

~Me

Fri 06-17-2005

i think this is the room where i found old needles...

eddie

Sat 07-09-2005

I found a giant ten inch catheter still wrapped in a cabinet there. I have a pic of it.

Radical Ed

Sat 07-09-2005

e mail it to me if you can at crimsonxblo0d@aol.com ( the second 0 in blood is a zero)

eddie

Sun 07-10-2005

well for gods sake whatever you do radical ed, dont stick it up your nose....... :-~

anna

Sun 07-10-2005

haha this room looks exactly like my Science class in 8th grade!

Tue 08-23-2005

And I'm going to school for lab technology. After seeing this creepy pics, I wonder if that's what I really want to do.

Twug

Mon 08-29-2005

By the way, how did the graffiti "artists" miss this room?

Twug

Mon 08-29-2005

This is in the administration building, which is about six stories high. There's two floors with this type of furniture in just about every room, where they did medical and scientific studies. By the time vandals get this far, the cans are empty and the desire is gone. Byberry is a huge complex, and there are entire buildings devoid of graffitti.

Radical Ed

Mon 08-29-2005

Hey Ed;
Care to take a newbie through the place? I'd love to go.

The Bald One

Sun 10-16-2005

To The Bald One
email me at radical_ed@yahoo.com and put "Byberry" in the header for further discussion.

Radical Ed

Sun 10-16-2005

yeah hi i. im very intrested in byberry but i was wondering...why is there a lab? to you it may seem like a dumb childish question...but to me it seems like the lab represents how the mentally ill were considered "not human" and just lab rats?.....idk please answer back

meghan

Tue 01-03-2006

I think the labs were mainly used to study the results from autopsies (hence why they are almost always next to the morgue) as well as various fluids and samples taken from patients to examine their illnesses on a biological and psychological standpoint, compiling them together to help determine the cause and cure for various physical and mental illnesses. Byberry had a very large and in-depth medical program, and also trained scientists and medical examiners. I'm sure the effects of drugs were monitored closely, as in collecting and comparing data from the patients (side effects, well-being, etc).

I don't think the drugs were tested on the patients themselves like lab rats, although these incidents have been reported at places such as Willowbrook, Fernald, and Vineland State Schools.

Motts

Tue 01-03-2006

In one of the labs there is a drawer full of wax blocks with brain-tissue samples imbedded in the wax. There are hundreds of brain-chunks there and I wonder why. There's also an "Animals" room on the top floor of the lab/administration building.

Radical Ed

Fri 01-06-2006

the study of brain matter in order to maybe somehow understand how the human mind works, or doesn't work, i can understand, as far as an 'Animals' room, PLEASE do tell more of it to ~Me, Thanks.

~Me

Sat 01-07-2006

I worked in the lab - around 1970 as a lab tech, doing routine stuff, drawing blood, CBCs, Urinalysis, Sugar, etc
Is this N10, I can picture the bldg, but can't remember the #

Thu 01-12-2006

This is W-3, where the administration movie auditorium and morgue are.

Radical Ed

Thu 01-12-2006

green, green, green!!!!!!!!!! why is everything all over all of these hospitals green?!?!!

chrissie

Wed 02-08-2006

The brain chunks are in wax to get them ready for placement in a microtome, a lab device that makes very thin cuts of tissue that then can be stained and mounted on microscope slides for examination. Guess the samples in the lab never made it that far.

miataman

Thu 04-20-2006

i was there yesterday and found test tubes with some white shit in it with som water looked like seaman haha

mest

Thu 04-27-2006

Wow... just... wow. o-O Do my eyes deceive me, or did I just see someone spell "semen" as *seaman*?

Miss Space Cake

Wed 05-03-2006

It's OK - I think he's a sailor.

Lynne

Wed 05-03-2006

Yo, ho ho ho, a pirates life for me!

SATANS HUTCH!

yeah i wandered around w-3 for a good chunk of time, determined to leave with some chunks of human in littel squares of wax.
and i did.

zygote

Mon 06-19-2006

Now that's why were dieing fo thing that we don't know what it is or where it came from people finding thing and not reporting it to the right people that can get rid of this thing right, not for the entertainment, just plain sick

Amother that cares

Mon 06-19-2006

Just curious....but why would you remove anything from the site?

Not very ethical......

Dustin

Sun 10-01-2006

My twin has had brain surgey 50 staples from ear to ear and the trama and recovery were dificult and a learning expreince. Her peronality changed and no longer able to smell, which is linked to depression. It has been a long hard road. ( 2 brain anurysms) a"study" of our family history shows it could be hereditary. 6 members of my family have fallen victim of the brain anuyrms.

CSA fr USA

Thu 11-30-2006

That dustpan on the floor must be very tired of waiting...

Patrick

Sun 03-16-2008

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