Authors: W W Keen
Publish Date: 1924/01/12
Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 147-148
Abstract
To the Editor —I want to call attention to a serious condition which the profession throughout the country can remedy to a large extentI learn that a number of our own American instrument makers are going out of business because surgeons and hospitals are purchasing approximately 95 per cent of their steel instruments of German manufacture This is surely not patriotic They should encourage our own instrument makers instead of those of any other nation and especially those of GermanyIf we are ever to be a selfcontained nation we ought for patriotic reasons if for no other to encourage our own manufacturers I know of no better way in which this can be brought home to the profession than through the columns of The Journal
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