Hydrotherapy

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I love the tiles on the floor and wall?????????

Sat 12-29-2007

now that reminds me of one of the bathrooms at the old Fort Totten...we snuck in there once or twice in the daytime of course...

EMSMedic

Sat 12-29-2007

Are those jets or safety drains?

Calgon take me away!

Great perspective.

that is a interesting one I have never seen one with a pump to lift the tub.

kim

Sun 12-30-2007

Oooh nice, yay bath time! *prepares towel and rubber ducky* :D

BadLuckBunny

Tue 01-01-2008

Don't you just hate those hard to clean rust stains?

blueskyes

Tue 01-01-2008

I think they are jets- it must have been a sort of very early jacuzzi system.
Whatever abusive wretches they had on the staff, the hospital planners and designers must have had progressive and idealistic visions for the sort of facilities they wished to offer.

Ugly tile.

The floor tiles are god awful, but the rest isn't all that bad.

CLR please? :3

Those tiles on the wall are a great color.

Jeanette

Thu 01-31-2008

Can anyone say waterboarding?

Tombo

Tue 02-12-2008

...actually, that IS a very interesting tub. *blinks*

Jenn ["Sunshine"]

Wed 03-26-2008

Not exactly an ergonomic design.

aceofspades70

Sun 08-17-2008

were my rubber ducky and my mr bubbels

swamp thing fla

Wed 03-25-2009

Hydrotherapy was supposed to serve as an adjunct to the sedatives and tranquilizers that existed in the pre-Thorazine age. The most common form was prolonged baths, in which they basically strapped down agitated patients in warm water for hours a day in the hope that it would calm them down. Catatonic patients got ice baths or ice wraps for the opposite reason. Neither one worked very well, but that's why you see so many hydrotherapy tubs in turn of the century era psychiatric institution.

John

Sat 08-22-2009

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Date Shot:	March 2006	Image ID#:	5495
Date Posted:	Sat, December 29th 2007	Camera:	Canon 300D Rebel

Location Name:	Marquette State Hospital
Current Status:	Abandoned
Built:	1931	Closed:	1998
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Location Age:	81 years	Abandonment:	14 years

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