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  • Profit Motive in the Medical Profession
    Originally published in 1911 in the journal “American Medicine”, this article discusses what we are so aware of now, the introduction of the profit motive into the medical profession

    The Church, the Law, and Medicine have for ages been linked together in the thought and speech of men as the "learned professions," the term "learned" having reference more especially to humanistic learning; and the "professional classes" have ever been held to be in some degree apart and in some respects more eminent and more worthy of esteem, if not of reverence, than those of commercial or other even more nearly personal occupations
  • Methods of Steel Casting
    Steel casting is a specialized form of casting involving various types of steel Steel castings are used when cast irons cannot deliver enough strength or shock resistance
  • Hot Blast Stoves in Steel Making
    A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, typically iron and general steel, http://wwwsmallcapinvestor
  • Crucibles in the General Steel Making Process
    Typically, a crucible is defined as a container in which metals are melted, usually at temperatures above 550 °C These crucibles are typically made of graphite with clay as a binder material
  • General Anesthesia: A Historical Perspective
    In modern medicine, we take for granted the ability of doctors to use anesthesia, shielding us from the pain of surgery It has not always been this way; a great number of experimental anesthesias were tried over the years, some with horrific results, even death
  • General Steel Making: The Cementation Process
    The cementation process is a now-obsolete technique for making steel with the carburization of iron Unlike modern steelmaking it increased the amount of carbon in the iron
  • Charcoal and the General Steel Making Process
    When one thinks of charcoal, we normally think of the most important historical use of wood charcoal; as the main ingredient in gunpowder However, it was of major importance in metallurgical operations as a reducing agent, primarily in the manufacture of steel
  • Blasting Away: Steel Building
    There are three general uses of the term “Blast” in the making of steel

    It’s hard to overstate the importance of the steel industry in the United States, especially in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
  • Building America and Making Steel: The Bessemer Process
    The Bessemer process of steel making was the first low cost industrial process for the mass-production of general steel (http://wwwgensteel

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