the sociological department was corwin whorichard had been brought up by palmer as a chief surgeon for the colorado coal and iron company. corwin had a lot of groundbreaking ideas in the fields of modern medicine, and he took those concepts and as the them to his job director of the sociological department -- department. some of those you will see in this building. &i was considered a leader in industrial medicine. this was the building where the workers would come in for regular medical exams. they were an early company pioneering medical care for their workers. visitors come in here will see a number of the original rooms from the medical dispensary. havee room across the hall one of the original x-ray machines used to examine the workers when they may have had injuries. they will see a room that has a hearing machine. hearing loss very common in a steel mill so a hearing machine testing for hearing loss. examination rooms for regular medical exams as well as examining things like broken bones or other types of illnesses. >> probably about half of our visitors to the museum are forme