Ancient Equipment

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Oh man! Is that excellent or what? Wouldn't you love to come across something like that? (salivating at the thought)

Lynne

Tue 09-13-2005

totally bizarre, it does look like some kind of arcaic i.v pole

*shivers*

anna

Wed 09-14-2005

Motts,
Was this morgue equipment?

silkster40z

Thu 09-15-2005

I really don't know... someone with a better medical equipment background could answer that question better than me...

Motts

Thu 09-15-2005

So nice to see glass equipment still intact!!!

Fri 09-23-2005

Looks like it could be some old glass IV bottles. Way back in the day, those things rocked.

Ben

Tue 10-11-2005

What does I.V. stand for? sorry I know I'm a dim one

JenUK

Sat 10-15-2005

hi dear, i.v. stands for intravenous which simpply refers to something that enters a vein. the glass bottles would have been filled with saline, nowadays, thankfully, they're made of plastic. a long tube runs the saline solution directly into the vein. there are many reasons why this is done, rehydrating, etc. but it is a great way to administer drugs intravenously, especially if it's something they plan on doing more than once, or something that they need the patient to be on a steady supply for any length of time on.

hope this helps. : )

AngelWolf

Sat 10-15-2005

I must say being in an I.V. is not a pleasant experience, I found out this summer after a stomach infection left me dangerously dehydrated, thankfully my I.V. was made of plastic.

Kim A. BÃ¸e

Mon 11-07-2005

I want to say this was used for transfusions or blood treatments. Since IV's normally only contain one bottle and are normally only just a pole with a hook, even the very early ones.

The more I look at it, it looks like some kind of blood transfusion device.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.../0/1/im/pi001869.jpg
History about transfusions:
http://history.amedd.a...i/blood/chapter1.htm

Ack

Thu 11-10-2005

"Hey daddio, make that type O"

from "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus (1956)

Puddleboy

Thu 11-10-2005

Hi, can you actually take those old devices home because there are really old and you can save them, it's part of the medical history.

Liz

Sat 12-10-2005

I'm such a huge lover of old and sometimes (I'll admit it) creepy stuff. What I wouldn't do to have a "shopping spree" in all of your locations. Yet, I have to say that I think it's wonderful that they haven't been pillaged and you can deliver such amazing in situ shots.

Season

Sun 12-11-2005

I looked through some of my old operating/surgery manuals and found that it is a twin bottle apparatous for providing gastrick suction. the two bottles would rotate upside down. the passage of water from the opper to the lower bottle produces suction the patient would be conected to it via the Miller- Abbott tube

DIB

Sun 01-01-2006

This old equipment is so cool. I am entralled by old things. Its so interesting to look at how things have changed.

Coffee Enima anyone?

bu ne gardasim yaa? Bi aspirator parcasi aradik. bu cikti. ne bicim bi medikal device? niye yakiyonuz lan makineyi? Tuu...

nour

Mon 03-13-2006

it does kinda look like an IV set, but it looks more like kevorkian's "thanatron"
Ack- IV's can have as many bottles as needed- you can even have double, triple, and quadruple pumps regulateting quite a few solutions in at one. A cancer patient of mine once had so many fluids going in at once that the pole looked like a christmass tree it has so many bags hanging.

Cait

Tue 04-11-2006

this is creepy !!!!! it looks like somthing someone would use to do drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jax and bara

Wed 04-26-2006

So when they tear these buildings down, does everything go with it?

Nancy

Wed 06-21-2006

As much as I love how much beauty is captured in these photo's, should this stuff not have been cleaned up? I mean, there's grafitti on the walls all over in other pictures. I'm sure some "dare devil" teens would push the boundaries and find ways to hurt/infect themselves with this left behind equipment.

Raven

Wed 07-12-2006

looks like embalming equipment to me

Bones

Mon 09-25-2006

I've heard stories of this place and how haunted it is..People dieing from experiences theyve had here. Is any of this true?

Greg

Tue 10-10-2006

I know how we could find out. :-)

Lynne

Tue 10-10-2006

Lynne, please do tell.were waiting with glee.

CSA fr USA

Mon 10-30-2006

Basically the equipment is the same used today, instead of plastic receptacles, it used to be glass bottles. The plastic of rubber tubes are almost the same as today.
In some parts of the world is still being used this kind of devices with relative success. What looks curious to me is why this device is in a damp like this.

Tue 05-15-2007

cou;ld be some type of old lavage equipment

Sherry

Tue 02-12-2008

2008/13/6/ there are 4 buildings left 4 those who been there lately. but 4 those w/ has'nt
old south still standing. the gym still standing
there theater or some wierd ass building w/ a stage curtin. u call it? and a building far off to the back across the street from old south and i cant get in 2 that one. so maybe someone will and post here.

jowy

Sat 09-20-2008

fucked up floors c-careful i put my foot threw one in old south.

jowy

Sat 09-20-2008

looks like a thanatron...

j'ai trouvé ça nul

can somebody use it again?

joel

Sun 12-13-2009

I keep coming back to this pic, This needs to be in a Medical Museum, Its a really great find, love to hear the stories that these old bottles could relate, Oh me, truly up my alley!

LucieLou

Sun 12-13-2009

The old med equipment freaks me out, it makes me feel like some one is doing evil experiments on these people

SQUEAMISHLY EVIL

The stand on the left is an IV pole - even the old glass IV bottles were hung using a hook and eye. The other two stands do look more like suction devices, albeit very old ones. What fabulous finds!

Emma

Tue 04-24-2012

I could use one of those to make iced tea in

eldokid@aol.com

Tue 11-06-2012

These bottles and tubes were obviously used in medical situations, however the same equipment was used for gravity flow of the fluid used in the embalming process. In the days before the electrical embalming pumps, hanging gravity-flow bottles were used. Kinda creepy, but the glass cleans up well, put in some new tubing, and you have a wonderful Vodka dispenser!

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Date Shot:	May 2005	Image ID#:	3124
Date Posted:	Mon, September 12th 2005	Camera:	Canon 300D Rebel

Location Name:	Northampton State Hospital
Current Status:	Demolished
Built:	1856	Closed:	1993
Opened:	1858	Demolished / Renovated:	2006
Location Age:	157 years	Abandonment:	13 years

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