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The table had been removed, as well as the contents of the large white coolers. I'm not sure what the instrument is laying in the foreground.
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Soap dispenser?
Sorry... couldn't resist

Actually, it almost looks like it could be a rather large syringe of some sort, possible something to inject embalming fluids?
Voyager
Sun 01-13-2008
Yup, soap dispenser. Presumably so they could keep the morgue clean like the sign said.
Frida
Sun 01-13-2008
I'd have to agree with Voyager (no, not about the soap dispenser, lol) .. it looks like something used to either inject or remove fluids
Stacy
Sun 01-13-2008
Nah, isnt embalming fluid injected by pump?
It seems to be used to handle an infectious body from far away, but its hard to tell..
Jak
Sun 01-13-2008
Maybe it's a thermometer for recording liver temp?
Jessica
Sun 01-13-2008
I think it might be a poker thing. Like in medical school they have all the autopsy corpses in a tank, that looks like the poker/hook they used to grab a body to bring it to the surface.
Christine
Mon 01-14-2008
Christine...that sounds horribly morbid, and at the same time, I want a fish tank of bodies in my house....

*ahem* does anyone else notice that the room is green? Of all colors to put in an autopsy room....
Riss
Mon 01-14-2008
Christine,

I hadn't heard that medical schools put all the bodies in a tank together. Any place in particular you heard this occurred at? Just curious - seems unusual.

Riss,

Green is the color opposite of red. After looking at all the blood over a few hours it would help your eyes to have a contrasting color to look at.
Lynne
Mon 01-14-2008
Thats an ugly green. Even the ceiling is green. Lynne, have any ideas on that?
jackieb
Mon 01-14-2008
jackieb,

See above.
Lynne
Mon 01-14-2008
The green makes this shot!
Jude
Tue 01-15-2008
As a student of morturary science i may be able to help with the identification of the object on top of the med. waste conatiner. It could be a trocar, which is used for cavity (torso) embalming, and it could also be a long needle used to put in embalming fluid. If so it must be old because we don't use the needles that you thread down into the jugular vein anymore. I hope i helped... er, actually i doubt i helped... BUT I GOT TO SAY SOMETHING! FUN Fun fun!
Noah
Tue 01-15-2008
Thought maybe the (now)capped tube had something to do with mortuary aspiration.
Guitorman
Wed 01-16-2008
A co-worker who I knew briefly in the early seventies(yes) told me about a job interview he had at University of Pennsylvania:"They had a giant whirlpool tub and your job was to wash dead bodies in them"
When I pressed him for more details he simply said: "Oh I don't know I just got out of there".
Guitorman
Wed 01-16-2008
Wow I haven't been on here in almost a year and we are still doing the classic soap dispenser joke huh. lol
Julie
Wed 01-16-2008
I went to the Univerity of Detroit Mercy we use cadavers and they are I am not sure if they are embalemed pr not but they are very not in any pool they aare wraped in a plastic covering to keep them moist and they are treated with the highest respect. In the summer after the school year the univericities hold a prayer service before they are cremateated . All bodies are domated to science by them or there family
kim
Thu 01-17-2008
hey noah, thanx for the info. its interesting, and good to know in case it isnt a soap dispenser.
kaycebane
Thu 01-17-2008
im not srue i want to know!
silkster40z
Sun 01-27-2008
I love the color os the room. and the angle you used to shoot this photo.
Jen
Mon 02-11-2008
I work as a mortician, and I have to agree with Noah, it does look similar to a Trocar.
Aussie_Kel
Mon 02-18-2008
that looks like a syringe for a dialisos or something for baling fluid
its aka a catheter
Sean S
Sun 04-27-2008
ive been told that the light color green was associated with sanitary conditions and used in bathrooms a lot in the early 1900's thats probably the reason for the tile here
jeff
Mon 05-19-2008
Tile... making it easier to clean don't you think? LOL
Carol
Sat 07-12-2008
kim can't spell
SNEAKY-SWEEP
Sun 04-19-2009
I actually like the green tiles
serenityjane
Wed 08-05-2009
agreeing whit the green beirng oppisite of red i must say that all the light greens pinks and yellows u see in hospital an or sanateriums is actuelly mood setting for most of the peolpe there! well they atlest try!

lol soap despanser!
roxy
Sun 02-14-2010
I KNOW I KNOW...

That is a poker to zap the Zombies if they start coming after the people working there!

Okay that was lame, but I HAD to...in a strange mood this morning.
MamaToFiveInPA
Thu 12-16-2010
actually, blue is the opposite color of red. i've cleaned a few M.E.'s and morgues and they're usually white of pale yellow
colin
Sun 01-16-2011
During my study I learned that when looking at bright red (blod) for a longer time and then looking on another surface you experience a green afterimage. To avoid that this would perturb the surgery, cloths and walls in an operating room are normally green so you do not see the afterimage too much.
To tell the truth - I do not really know if this is the true reason but I always believed it would be..
Violet
Thu 02-17-2011
@ Colin - no, Lynne had it correct, green is the complimentary colour to red. In colour theory, green is opposite red. Orange is the complimentary colour to blue. Not that colour is relevant, just adding my two cents!
thirteen31
Fri 07-22-2011

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