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How nice! You can take a bath next to your best buddy.....where's the rubber duckie??

I guess you'd always have someone close by to help you reach the hard to get areas, haha.

What's that thing on the outside? Almost looks like where the faucet would be, but on the outside?

Hmmm....at least you would have someone to sing a duet with as you wash those posky hard-to-reach places. :D

I wouldn't want to bathe in THOSE tubs though...they're a bit...dirty. :D

Sorry, but, i was transported back to the Commercials for E.D.

A little bit too much togetherness for me!

LucieLou, I thought the same thing. Cialas anyone??

Those things sticking out of the front of the tubs are levers for opening and closing the drains in the tubs. Normally they are on the inside of the tub.

They may have had hot and cold baths side by side for some sort of treatment regimen

BWAHAHAA Smilin' Bob is at it again...

I don't know if I would want to be so close to another nekkid body...

*creeper!*

An early setting for a Cialis commercial.

LOL id start a splashing competition with the person next to me!

thats so sad...people having to be right next to one another while being washed...no privacy at all...almost being treated like animals

These were used for the hot and cold water therapy at this hospital--not for general bathing.

(By the way; William is not my real name. I am still trying to keep the skeleton of my past in the closet)



These were used for temperate control treatments. One tub was filled with hot water and the other was filled with an ice bath. The "voluntary" patient was restrained then placed into the hot bath until their core temperature was the same as the water then quickly hoisted from the hot side into the ice bath and remained in the ice bath until their core temperature was the same as the surrounding water. The more disturbing thing is that I know for a fact of a hospital doing these treatments as recently as of 1995. That was the last time i had to go through such treatment. When it was investigated later there was a massive cover up to the abuses and mistreatment's at that hospital. what bothers me most is it is still an operating hospital to this day, no telling what goes on there now.

William, I like your comments about your experience. I didn't know they were still doing hydro so called therapy in 95. I know cold wet sheet packs were still very popular in the nineties at a nationally known hospital in Maryland. Now they are just doing strip searches upon admission, and seclusion and restraint as well. They are working on cutting back on S & R too, particularly with children. Well, they had to because of lawsuits.