We Found 1940s Medical Equipment in an Abandoned Sanatorium! 

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Honestly, if I were you I would probably get sidetracked and read all those files because that stuff is just really interesting to me

I was a Western Union Telegraph delivery boy in my late teens and sometimes delivered telegrams to our local "TB" sanitarium (two blocks from my home!). Sometimes I'd have to collect for a message and the cash would be placed into an envelope and the first time I was going to seal the flap, a nurse said, calmly, "No. Think of where you are," and shoved a commercial moistener (a round sponge in a special dish) over in front of me. It strikes me now that we were never taught about contagion in school, other than quarantine for measles, mumps, and other kids' diseases. Spent my fifth birthday in a hospital ward with my leg in traction in 1945 and I can picture what this place looked like when still in operation. Wasn't too scary: a couple of pretty nurses came around and kissed me goodnight every night! Good video, guys!

Paperwork from 1965 and even the 1930s is neat, but so is the fact that the patient on the form shown at 8:30 was born in 1886!

The mixture of HNO3 (nitric acid) and HCl (chloric acid) is called "Königswasser", a German term which refers to its property to dissolve noble metals like gold and platinum (which no other acid can do) due to its formation of so-called NO radicals (which are very aggressive to cause chemical reactions). Likely it was used in this context in analytical chemistry to dissolve samples which would be otherwise hard to dissolve. Königswasser is not stable and needs to be used directly after it is freshly made. I worked with it, and would only handle it inside well vented hoods since it forms a lot of nitric gases. The solution does not attack glass, so it makes sense to keep it in this bottle temporarily while using it. Amazing that the label stayed intact for so long!

It's amazing how these places turn into time capsules. How things have changed. How things haven't changed. Thanks for your hard work on these videos. They really make our days

I’ve only recently found your channel, and I’m glad I did. Quality content, no drama, great camera work. You have a new subscriber.

23:42 My Mom would get pneumonia every year as a child (during the 60's) and she told me about the plastic tents they would put around her. She already had asthma, so she got really sick easily. Often staying a full week in the hospital under one of those oxygen tents, and getting xrays on her lungs everyday. I showed this video to her and she said she would never be able to forget the smell of the plastic curtain mixed with the oxygen.

Please don't change the intro music. It puts me right in the zone. Love your work guys. Exemplary.

18:13 the harry potter points tracker is definitely an ion exchanger. The columns are filled with a resin (the orange stuff) and it is usually used to make de-ionized water. The caustic chemical is needed to regenerate the resin. Too bad it is broken, looks like some residual water froze and cracked the glass. Modern exchangers often use mixed bed resin instead of two separate columns.

That was the very best sanatorium/sanitarium I've ever seen on You Tube! The sun porch with the copper awnings and the painted brick work with the sea shells was magnificent! The old medical/dental items were really interesting as were the labs. You guys hit the ball out of the park with this one!!!!!!

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Some of their families would probably love to see those documents. That first one was for a woman born in 1886 - long gone now.

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The sewing machines, perhaps used by elderly patients, were most likely used to sew draperies, hospital gowns, and curtains. Many years ago I worked in a hospital that had it's own textile "factory" for this purpose.

19:00 Looks like an old water sterilizing machine. Something that waste water that could be TB contaminated could run through and be sterilized before going into the main drain.

Your camera and lighting just keeps getting better and better. I love that you move the cameras slowly and the editing is so smooth. I can really enjoy what record for us. I binged watched all of your videos while recoding from joint replacement. Keep them coming!!

As a professional microbiologist that works with mycobacterium daily - I’m glad you wore respirators. Those bacteria are so different than most and I can even imagine what I could culture out of those surfaces. It’s amazing how long those bacteria - and in this case I’m talking about Mycobacterium tuberculinum, can persist due to the very complex waxy coating they secrete to make a little “fort” to hide in and wait out long long long periods of time. They are nothing if not survivors.

"The restraints on the bed are cool" ..."Do you want to get in them?" ..."No 😮" Made me giggle 😂

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I know you are likely trespassing and risking harm by entering those unsafe environments. But I thank you for that glimpse into our past. Never lose your curiosity.

“So the babies could do some pull-ups” that got a laugh out of me lol

I have discovered your channel 2 days ago and I can't stop watching this kind of videos, they are so interesting. This channel is not like other channels: you give out historical facts, you don't overract when something happens, great camera quality, and no screaming. Keep up the great work!

What is so interesting to me is that when looking at the rooms, things seem to be thrown around it. I'm sure no one left in a crazy hurry so why are desks, cabinets, etc on top of each other. It always amazes me in these places is how it looks like someone got caught doing something wrong so they threw things around and left. It is just bizarre! Thanks for keeping it real though and not trying to make this a ghost hunt when there is none to be had. Just cool to see all of this. Of course, I would still be back reading the files for hours. LOL

No way! I live pretty close to that hospital and I’ve always been too nervous to go in. Thanks for giving us such an in depth experience!

Don't mess with the fallen ceiling, that's pure asbestos dudes. A building that old is bound to be totally laden with that stuff.

That standing xray machine looked like a flouriscope. Think of it as a "live" xray, since you could look into a person as they stood there, rather than producing a film transparency.

I think the restraints on the rolling cots weren't restraints. They were straps to keep you from falling off. They remind me of the straps on a ambulance gurney.

Wow this was my favourite video in a long time! I would love to see a museum exhibit made out of these items, would be very cool to develop the building into maybe mixed residential and commercial space with a museum. I really do hope it gets saved.

Thanks for such a fascinating video, I love looking at all the old medical devices, I have spent many years working as a biomedical technician repairing and maintaining all sorts of equipment, I sure would love to explore that place. I love all that old gear and would be able to describe what they are and how they would have been originally used. Sad to see it all rotting away, hopefully someone can save and preserve some of it.

Thank you so much to give me the opportunity to collaborate in this amazing video!

"Those restraints on the bed are cool." "Yeah...wanna get in them?" "No."

this is honestly my favorite exploration channel because they dont try to joke around the whole video they stay serious only popping a joke in rarely

24:49 You can hear a woman in the background talking

10:45 Radioscopy equip. 13:20 In the middle, ancient UVC lamp. Ultraviolet C, bacteria killer by light. In the bottom part it's a big transformer used to light up the U shape lamp. It is like an huge foto-flash lamp 24:30 in the corner, it might be an ancient spirometer, used to observe the flow-volume charts of the respiration.

Holy crap, you guys outdid yourselves with this place. Wish I could help I.D. some of the electronics.

As a radiographer, whenever you guys find X-ray equipment I get really excited. That machine is VERY early. Almost as early as the discovery of xrays!

I love how that every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new. You guys are literally the best in my opinion. Another great video. They just keep getting better and better.

The "calculator" is a comptometer, my grandma used to be an operator.

The long tubes with the solid materials looking like yellow sand coming off could have been used as desiccants. Caustic soda (NaOH) pallets or or other salts would serve this purpose. Possible they dried air or other gases for some usage.

24:50 I swear i heard a girl talking in the background... Strange. But maybe it was just heard from the active part.

There goes that custom atmospheric mood music to go along just right with the place they're exploring, awesome guys...🔦🚪

In the 80's my brother and I use to explore abandoned buildings. Before it had a name, Urban Exploration. I'm glad to see you guys do the same thing we did then. Leave everything intact and in place.

No shortage of that ugly light green that's in every old hospital or asylum 🙄......

Bumps in the night🤟🏻👌🏻 Dont change your intro ither

are you kidding me in this building are the lights still working?!

I wonder if TPP can find an abandoned bunker, or older WW2 Era facilities to explore.

It’s a shame some of this stuff left to rot like the beds and desks I’ve restored everything from cars to houses to furniture and you would be surprised how little SOME stuff takes to repair/replace and make awsome again and of corse you don’t see this level of detail and real craftsmanship ever anymore I just restored a bankers desk and I reluctantly sold it for $2800 at auction

My aunt had tuberculosis back then, when she was a teen-ager. I appreciate that you do research beforehand, so that you describe things well.

The sad part about these sanatoriums is that the patients often lived there their hole life. They could never go back to where they came from. More or less a prison.

You should check out Pennhurst in Pennsylvania. I believe it's in Phoenixville.

Sewing machines,maybe used in occupational therapy.TB became drug resistant. There is now a very aggressive strain,of TB which is very difficult to treat.

@The Proper People You guys have great production values. Your videos aren't just videos, they're more like mini documentaries. I appreciate the research that you do for each place that you shoot. I am a subscriber and I look forward to your next video. I've watched your previous videos several times because they are so good. I think your videos are one of the best on RU-vid. Keep up the great work!

Minor detail: the faceted light parts @3:43 are "Fresnel," pronounced "Fray-NELL" or Fren-NELL." You guys always do a good job and obviously appreciate craftsmanship of the past. (BTW, I had to grin when I saw the shot of all the dust motes swirling in the shaft of light in your intro. There are so many people out there who immediately start freaking out about "ORBS!" every time a dust mote shows up, looking larger than life in the bright lights of the camera. If that were true, I used to see hundreds of spooks floating in shafts of sunlight coming in my bedroom windows when I was a Yard Ape!)

The most amazing thing in this is the fact they found film for the Polaroid camera.

You guys are very respectful of the property you explore..I like that

Me: sees new vid of sanitarium Me: *ooh yes*

Finally! We get to see a rare floor number indicator and it turns out it's for a lousy Shaftway. I hate shaftways! Seriously though great place once again guys!

I really love the fact that there is so little scrapper an vandal damage to the buidings. With a little bit of imagination you can mostly figure out what was happening in a room & how it was done. This is just great, thank you

I'm hoping there is a Bumps in the Night in the works for Halloween. Good stuff as always.

I can only find pictures that medical equipment in my aunt's nursing textbooks (she took up a bachelor's degree in Nursing back in the 70s, and some of her textbooks are dated 60s to 70s.), especially the oxygen tent. There were two types: the one that uses ice and the one that uses electrical refrigeration to cool the air-oxygen mixture circulating inside the tent. The apparatus that are shown in 24:33 is probably a bronchospirometer, used to measure the pulmonary volume of both two lungs (the amount of air that enters the lungs - usually measured in ml), or a volume-cycled ventilator.

I would have a hard time resisting taking stuff with me from places like this

I would've personally took some of the files and try to save them or atleast read them then shread. Stuff like that really intrest me.

It's crazy to think that people spent probably years building this place just for it to be abandoned soon after

amazing guys love abandon/ sanitarums/ hospitals!! great exploration!! loved the seashells!!

Always good to get a proper notification! :)

10:50 That is a flouroscope. Live action x-ray. The patient would stand behind the screen.

22:16 Fortunately the bottle is empty. This is the formula of the aqua regia !

This might be my fav video of yours, this place is just stunning. Relics and equipment of really long gone eras and architecture that would never be used in American institutions again. You two capture these places so well. Excellent!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

There's a reason these guys are the best. They don't disturb much on the sites, they don't waste time. They don't joke around. They're quiet and don't talk too much. They know what they're doing. And they're B-rolls are beautiful. I've been a subscriber for for over a year maybe 2 years, maybe more. Forget Exploring With Josh, Explore With Us, anybody who goes to Area 51, these guys are where it's at.

1:41 did someone whisper "thank you" ?

Thanks for giving us the ability to see these amazing places. If guys like you didn't go out and document this stuff we would all be missing out on seeing incredible places such as this one. We likely would never know they even exist.

18:20 These big glass columns is a water treatment device. There are Ion Exchange Resin inside. Absolutely harmless.

The Jobst compression unit at 26:04 reminded me of some surgical stocking company (that still exists) and I looked it up. This unit was probably used to reduce the pressure in legs or arms caused by lymphedema after surgeries.

These Asylums/Hospitals always remind me of Outlast.. They’re probably the most creepy lost places to visit due to the actual suffering and sadness that took place there.

Love how you guys got better and more serious as the years passed

Such a shame they won’t take the equipment out to be saved. Thank you for all the research and hard work you guys do. Can’t wait for the next video!

I totally agree about the museum for all the medical artifacts you filmed. I can't imagine what the loneliness must have been like for a child, a mother or a father or whoever to have to go to one of these places to "get well" and be separated from my family for months or sometimes years. I'm certainly enjoying your videos and would travel around exploring abandoned places if I could.

Its friday.woooot Keep on exploring guys love the videos

So ready!!! So excited to see the amazing content yall bring to the urbex community and to others!! Really appreciate guys!! Keep it up!

I could sit and real files for hours in that place 😍 I can’t even imagine how amazing that would be.

Such an awesome channel. Its a look into the past. Its actually good that these places havnt been demolished because it's basically a 50 year old museum just sitting there.

24:49 Anyone hear a womans voice??? I hear "Any accountant, Dave Klarkson"?

I can ID the x-ray equipment. The two tall, rectangular devices are fluoroscopes, and I think they're terrifying things! The patient stands between the cabinet and that rectangular white screen, which can be slid up and down; the x-ray tube is inside, in a lead housing, above a gigantic transformer, and the tube moves with the fluorescent screen, which glows an eerie yellow-green and gives a live x-ray picture. Some general practitioners had them in their offices, and would put you behind the screen for the tiniest reasons! The images were dim, so the operator had to sit in the dark for a while first, or wear red goggles for a while. The same tech, even scarier, was used for devices which showed the fit of shoes, mostly a gimmick (and a huge hazard for the shoe salespeople, since many had very little lead shielding!) There were also fluoroscopes attached to movable tables, set up so you could take x-ray photos OR use the screen; that's the Keleket device shown, and the screen's frame is all that's left (barely visible at the top). The easy finger control was a big deal; moving the table, tube and screen was previously a tedious job. You can tell these aren't post-WWII because, by that time, they usually had extra lead shielding to protect the operator. The screens always had lead glass in front, but they'd also have (and older ones were sometimes retrofitted with) side extensions to shield the handles used to move the screen, an extension above, and a rubberized lead sheet hanging below. By the sixties, they'd moved to attaching image intensifiers over the screen, which (a) make the image brighter, (b) put it on a TV so the operator isn't nearby, and (c) use a LOT less radiation! To any urbex people: if you encounter a modern-looking x-ray setup where there's a device above and another below the table, that's a fluoroscope with an image intensifier. The thumbnail to the Proper People's "Exploring an Abandoned Tuberculosis Sanitarium" shows one of these, with the screen/intensifier ahead of the x-ray head but both on top (it wouldn't be used like that, of course). Another style has a huge C-shaped arm, tube on one side, intensifier in the other. A patient can (and sometimes does) still get an x-ray burn off these, and some surgeons still get that by working under the beam.

8:12 "Urinary drainage tubes and bags" Sounds pretty hot.

This place is so cool. To see such natural decay, untouched for decades is always such a treat.

I would be so afraid of the ceiling falling on me or floors giving way. I love the videos but be careful!

I know the premise behind urban exploration is to leave the buildings undisturbed, but some of the light fixtures might etc. might be salvagable. If a building like this could potentially be demolished, or left to fall in on itself why not salvage what's useful?

This place is AMAZING. I love all those old machines and files. The American shield tiles at 5:50 is gorgeous , if y’all made a print of that, I’d take two. It hard to believe details like this were once commonplace. I enjoy adding such details into my homes and know they take time and money, but make it all that more enjoyable to be there. Thanks for your efforts!

I got a big practical exam in network engineering tomorrow and the time is 22.00. Needed something to calm me down and proper peoples stuff is really relaxing in some way. Thanks!

The editing is on point as always. That was a good and interesting exploration.

24:50 you can hear a female voice if you listen closely

Wow those old medical records are fascinating. It’s amazing how much of the medical culture and the state of the art is reflected in those documents. Wonderful footage as always!

Maybe someone can help me understand: why some of this buildings have not been renovated and repurposed into apartments for example? The architectural details make them very unique and I image there would be people wanting to live there.

Remarkably, and refreshingly, free from heavy vandalism. Great find.

TB back then was a major disease. Now we just laugh it off because of modern medicine. Thank you to all that were involved in developing a vaccine and cures for other diseases. Makes me appreciate the fields of mathematics and science.

Another awesome video. Makes me want to go read all those medical files.

I always find these videos fascinating. If possible, these guys should try to explore Disney's Discovery Island. That place to this day still hasn't been explored really.

Just a question is that a voice at 20:49 area right after u talk about the copper or is it wind interfering with the Mic. Sounded like a voice to me just curious

Thank you for not making it creepy and just exploring the place. I love to watch these videos just to see how people lived their lives back then. Major props to you guys 👏🏻