Examination Light

That is one morbidly creepy light fixture. Love the black and white...

"In a curiously out of the way place..." That makes it that much creepier... So large, and UUUUGLYYY...Makes you wonder just what went on in that room....Is that just a board, or an examining table?

I've seen lots of Pics of DSH, and have NEVER seen that room. Great find!

Why would a lobotomy room require that many soap dispensers??

Since you couldn't wash their mouth out with soap, maybe when you opened up their brain . . . . . . . .

=8-o

I was actually in this room during a tour . Doug is correct, this is the actual room where Lobotomies were performed. Very small room. Some bad Karma in this room!!!!!!!! If only the walls could speak!

just looking at the pic of this room creeps me out! can't imagine actually going into it! i have a thing for the morbid and creepy. i would love to have been able to visit danvers, but it is getting demolished. it started in jan. 06

Are they actually starting to demolish this already????????What a waste of history;another item to only read about and look at pictures in books.

I never thought that some exam lights could make me feel a sense of fear, but for some reason this particular set of lights do, just has that not so safe feeling!!

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me...than a frontal-

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/lobotomy.html

Looks like the small building they used to do lobotomies in. Just out side the east end of the Kirkbride building. There was a small passageway out to the building Made it into the passage never into the building didn't have the proper keys to do so.

what is the crack with soap dispensers? i don't geddit.....

:-)
http://www.opacity.us/...rotting_bathroom.htm
:-)

I'm sure poor Motts is just so sick of this by now.

But the rest of us think it's funny as hell. ;-)

Creepy....

I'm sorry for being an iggnorant teenager but what is lobotomies? I cannot remember exactly what it is, though I'm guessing it's not the most pleasant of things...

You're not ignorant - you're lucky. They aren't an everyday occurrence like they were in the past before psychotropic medications were available (with their own set of problems).

You take a small sharp metal blade and insert it a few inches into the eye socket right above the eyeball. You get into the frontal lobe area of the brain and you wiggle the little sharp device back and forth a number of times and scramble things around. You pull the little metal device back out (an ice pick can do the job) and voila! The person's executive functions have been shot all to hell. If you hit the correct part of the brain you wipe out the section that makes people impulsive and wild and instead turns them into walking zombies. If you miss, well, that's not a good thing. Of course, hitting the right part wasn't exactly a good thing either . . .

For a slightly more elegant description of the process (developed by Moniz but popularized by our friend Walter Freeman, about whom we were commenting several pages back) see:
http://www.stayfreemag...obotomy_sidebar.html
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/index.html

It reminds me of an infant's mobile.

this pic is extremely morbid if you think about it...wow...i would have hated to be examined in that room.

The soap dispensers (that cracks me up) look sort of like monitors hanging in some sinister control room or security center.

just back on-topic, i found this pic from a link on the forum - grim angel i think put it up) of the salvage company taking this light down..seems it was the lobotomy room after all...

http://www.noreast1.co...versinstitution.html

i totally lied - it was danversfanatic who posted the link. sorry.

Yes it was the room lobotomies were performed in. It was a small building off the female wing of the building. There was a small passage way from the ward to the building.

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD BEEN IN EVERY ROOM A NEW ONE POPS UP!

I wonder what the light is for

To see.

The light helps you see which part of the brain your swishing a sharp metal object around in

Thats not nice

dude my aunt sat in that chair creepy loads of bad memeories

wow

I think this is the only picture I've ever seen of this portion of the kirkbride (athough it's not *technically* part of the kirk because it's an annex). The operating room addition always fascinated me because I knew what it was used for, but I never knew what it looked like inside. Now, thanks to you, I do.

what was it used for

Were lobotomies done more for schizophrenic or Manic Depressive patients?( I seem to recall for schizophrenics more, but it's been 10 years since my psych classes)?

Lynne and/or Big Ed, your input would be very helpful.

I am pretty sure it was used for schizophernic because that is wat it saaid in my class

Cool. Can you imagine the demented people who looked up at that light for hours?
Creepy stuff!

I think the "demented" people who received lobotomies were either sedated or unconscious when the procedure was performed. So they would not exactly be staring up into the light... and the procedure only took about 10 minutes from what I read. Doubtful that they had hours to look up at the creepy, multi-facted soap dispenser.

(tee-hee, sorry, just had to!)

This light is so scary!

the light is like out of a horror movie....

That's the Labotomy Room... That light fixture was actually salvaged by a company in South Hampton NH

Very interesting!

I want to point out that its the creepiest and weirdest style of lighting they could possibly put into a hospital for people who need help.....