Amazing Abandoned Asylum - Creepy Medical Room & Beautiful Architecture 

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you aint lying. Goes to show when your in a country of people that respect each others property.

these guys are truly epic

Ikr

Could be because locals know its history and don't want to mess with it. And it can also be protected by the state, so massive fines for vandalism. Government might even own the building, but they don't have the money or interest to keep it in tiptop shape (considering it's Italy, it doesn't see such harsh winters, so keeping the walls up is easy with minimal supervision). Pretty common in europe that some locations look untouched because of this, but the building next block can be full of grafitti if it's just regular old industrial building etc...

Your statement is definitely an oxymoron. I like it!

Ligit mental

this is france

@@tweety6916 no it's in Italy i live close....

@@albertorosso490 then why is there french written on the walls ?

I noticed that too, maybe for mixing barium or some other radio opaque dye.

Those mixers are also used for mixing alginate for dental impressions or plaster for casts.

How do you know this? I'm so fucking curious and impressed, I tried to do as much digging as I could but the only thing I found out is that it uses Promethium 147 which is often used in nuclear batteries and could possibly be used for xrays.

@@mattikro I've collected old electrotherapy devices for a long time, though I've sold all but a few Violet Ray machines now. This machine wouldn't contain anything radioactive at all; it generates electric currents similar to microwaves through its two electrodes (or, other types of electrodes that lay directly on the patient could be plugged in). The only medical devices which contain radioactive elements are radiation therapy machines, which usually use cobalt-60 (though some generate radiation with an accelerator instead), and the cobalt-60 ones are always massive. They have a rotatable C-shaped arm, with one side having an enormous housing for the cobalt (and its shielding and the shutter to open and close) and the other having a big lead pad to stop the beam after it passes through the patient. Incidentally, I often see people talking about scrapping x-ray machines and being afraid of the radioactive stuff inside. X-rays are NEVER done with radioactive material. Even cobalt-60 machines don't use that to take x-rays. X-ray machines have always used a vacuum tube, which only generates radiation when the proper current is applied to the tube. In machines made after the 40s, both a small voltage for the filament and a high voltage for the target are necessary. The most dangerous things in an unplugged x-ray machine is the oil surrounding the transformer and/or x-ray tube, which might contain PCBs, and any lead shielding. When they first go into the x-ray room, there's what appears to be an old fluoroscope on the left in the back. Now THOSE things are freaky. Live X-ray on a fluorescent screen (which glows a terrifying neon green color) while the patient gets quite a bit more radiation than a film x-ray gives. I wish they'd gotten a close-up of it. Those, at least the type where the doctor sits in front of the screen, went out of use in the 60s. All people hear about these days are the fluoroscopic shoe-fitters (which were really only bad for the salesman who ran them all day) but the upright "thoracic fluoroscope" used to be in every doctor's office, and just about any minor thing would be cause for a quick exam with one!

Jonas Clark you seem like the coolest dude to know!

@@turbocharger5482 Thanks! Most of my knowledge of other electro-therapy devices came from Mr. Jeff Behary, who is, I think, THE authority on the subject. Most of my personal knowledge in that area is about violet ray devices, not diathermy.

@@JonasClark My husband had a friend who had a Violet Ray device, not at all sure what he did with it or if he still has it,,,

they looked hand cut too

they were hand cutted to. A lost art really, i remember one of my grandpa's brother who worked with "this". He was pretty fast for what i remember but he had at least 30 years of experience on it.

Given the number of support beams and collapses, it'd probably be pretty difficult to bring it up to safety standards, unfortunately.

It'd be insanely expensive and laborious to restore and Italy is broke as fuck. Chances are it'll be too far gone to fix by the time someone has the money. It'll either rot away for years till it has to be torn down or some developer will buy the land and build condos or something on it

Seems as if they intend to save it as there are the ceiling braces. Why bother to brace it unless there is some plan.

@@carolro6673To preserve it for as long as possible. Here in the UK, there are what are known as listed buildings (and even trees) that can only be renovated under certain guidelines, and cannot be demolished. Many developers keep buildings from falling down, then let nature do the work. Then they move in and clear the rubble and build on the land.

@@diesel_dawg Or they get mysteriously burned down...

Me too! I used microfiche at a job years ago. Getting old lol

Thank you!

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Fuck that's creepy