The Mortuary and Laboratory are internally connected by a sliding window.
The Laboratory fitted out with benches, lockers, autoclaves, a steriliser, an incubator, a wire pen for small animal tests and other scientific instruments for experimentation.
Post Mortem were sometimes performed along with experiments that helped develop immunisation against disease.
The reality of quarantine and the process of death, diagnosis and research HAUNTS...
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Does anyone want to lie down?
No thanks.... *glurp*
But I like the little bottles on the shelves... Are they old? They would fit perfectly in my collection.... I WANT THEM!!! Hheheheh... :)
Ooh a body stretcher. I would like mine fitted with a Tempurpedic matress and draped in freshly laundered sheets, most preferably not in this room or this building or this site at all. I want to sleep in my own bed and wake up drag myself into the kitchen for a fresh cup of coffee. Can one arrange for that here? No because this is a dreadful and awful looking place but I have to tell you there are still places today that look like this.
Oh yes, I want to paw the instruments and containers and all the left about stuff too MerlinPrincesse!
The window beetween these two would have made sending stuff for testing to be very easy indeed...important work experiments, glad they are largely less gruesome today - or so we hope!
MerlinPrincesse, the little bottles could be dated back to the 1830s when surgeon James Stuart performed zoological research - I do not know.
Ces, this was built around 1884, demolished and re-built between 1911 and 1929. The retaining wall was replaced with criblock in 1984 and blinds were installed on the windows in the 60s.
Lavender, it is more a post-mortem and laboratory than a morgue! This place wasn't out of operation until after I was born!
You were born here? (Giggle!)
NO Ces!!! But I might be some form of experiment heehee :)
So it was going untill pretty recently, Cool! I wonder what you will have for us tommorrow Anon - Ive learned a good bit on Aussie history from this, and am loving it!
Oh dear, in that case you might not like tomorrow's post Lavender but very soon there will be birds and orchids again! It feels like Spring has sprung a few days early :)
NO, I want all those jars and gadgets!! For sentimental reasons.
This place is a dump!
You must feel at home Lunatica
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Indeed I do!
I really wouldn't mind if you stayed here Lunatica ... when we move on :) Make yourself at home as you feel inclined ...
I treid to comment earlier but was not allowed. I have been blackballed?
Hmmmm, you did giggle Ces ... heehee! Must have been the Blogger Monster ...
I was going to say that this Lab looked pretty modern for the 1880's. I wonder what it really looked like back then - And what did they do with their advanced technology? Poke the bodies with sticks?
I think I'll stay here with Lunatica...
Joy's comment made me spill my tea from laughter! This blog is a riot. I don't think there is any other place like this blog. Hmnn, let me see. I think you guys are a riot. Same thing happens to Perriette's, Joy's and Eggo's blogs because you drop by there too!
Anon, this is really special.
There are no crystal balls in this place. They must scry in their bottles.
Joy, they did a lot more than just "poke" here! They would have been excited at seeing a chainsaw if they could see into the future! There was one man who was so tall they had to remove his legs to fit him into a casket. His ghost still shows legless :) Could have been the Phenol's fault too ...
We are all really 'special' Ces :)
Back then they wrote history Wizard Why. But they would have appreciated seeing a chainsaw in your crystal ball!!!
They would need to put a poutice on such a sore.
It would have been an eye-sore Wizard Why. Eye think far too serious for a poultice...
Wizard....why?
You are more sane than you let on Lunatica ...
Ha, I think I'm funny too, Ces! hee-hee.
Maybe the tall man wanted to be short - and once they removed his legs he was relieved...
Personally, I would have just folded him in half and sat on the coffin like an overstuffed suitcase.
The story is he hangs around the slab looking for his legs Joy Eliz. He misses them! They should have buried them beside him. I wonder where they went!?! You would have made a Jack in the Box missing its springs but extra bouncy anyway Joy Eliz!! I remember a drawing you did about that ...
Interesting place and fun comments!
My blog visitors are all insane Mary Stebbins Taitt! Especially that ghostly looking one claiming to be 'anonymous' HAHHAHHAAA
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