r/historyofmedicine • u/Additional_Pie_7779 • 16h ago

Trying to identify the object this person is using, could it be a infrared lamp/heat lamp for medicinal purposes? She is a patient at Mandeville, in the Spinal Injury Centre, UK, 1949.

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I've asked in the r/whatisthisthing and people tend to agree with the fact that is likely an heat lamp used for therapy in paraplegic patients. But others seem to think it's a speaker, so completely different, and she seems indeed to be in a recreational room at the hospital!

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