Hydrotherapy Station

Hydrotherapy torture, more like.

Lol. It is very similar to the one in "One flew over the Koo-Koo's nest"!

Maybe gas lines? and not H2O lines. Like in the chemistry labs.

It was a good guess though, wasn't it?

those stations are creepy for some reason reminds me of session 9

I was just thinking the same thing... One flew over the Coo Coo's nest. Classic film.

I bet they hit them with high pressure water as some form of treatment...

Yes, definitely high pressure water blasts, maybe after they put them in ice water for several hours as "therapy". Or maybe they used the ice water as part of the high pressure water treatment; you know, combining two torturous treatments in one to save money. And then when they were finished they sent them to the exercise room to use that torturous weight belt machine. God, the agony! The despair! =8-o

Cuckoo.

The two pipes in the back look so clean and new. It's creepy to think what they needed that for...

I'm not sure, but that may not be pipes you see. It could just be light reftecting off of a stainless steel surface, no?

It pretty clearly looks like pipes to me.

what exactly is hydro tharepy

There were few ways to calm agitated patients before effective psychotropic medications. Hydrotherapy was an effective means of reducing agitation. Its use stopped after the introduction of Thorazine the first effective psychotropic medication. Thorazine not only reduced agitation but hallucinations, inappropriate behavior and anxiety. It was the penicillin or wonder drug in the treatment of psychosis. I think the advent of Thorazine was the first creak in the closing of the doors to these buildings.

oh okay thanks i get it now!!

Think you could lift that thing Chief?

what is the history of this place and why did it close down

Heh-heh

I LIVED IN FOXBORO AND I USED TO HEAR THE STORYS OF THE TREMENTS, IT MADE YOU SICK TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THAT HOSP. IT WAS A DUMPING GROUND, IF YOU WHER A LITTLE NUTTY THATS WHER YOU GOT SENT. BACK IN OLD DAYS.

When people in town found out about what was happening in the hospital, what did they do?

creepy.

I lived in Foxboro also. I never knew about the cemeteries, as a kid I guess I just thought that when a patient died, their family came and brought them home to be buried. I remember hearing shouting and screaming while walking down Chestnut St., in front of the wards. I can only imagine it was hydrotherapy time, or some other 'treatment' time. There was an escape alarm that would pierce the silence of day or night if a patient went missing. On a couple of occasions I remember being home alone when that alarm sounded. I don't mind saying that it made me kind of nervous (I was 9).
I had friends whose parents worked at FSH. There were lots of stories of orderlies bullying, pushing, shouting and threatening patients. Injuries that were passed off as accidents, I wonder how many ended in death. It sounded like the perfect job for somebody with a anger problem.
Horrible things happened there and the construction and botched remodels should be more careful to preserve those graves and the grounds of this place. There should be more respect.
Foxboro was a wonderful place to grow up.