Preface 
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jHE product of the hand and brain of the painter, designer or 
sculptor, and Hkewise the resuh of the labor of a skilled mechanic, 
will always realize a price which is in proportion to the master 
hand acquired by many years of costly experience and prac- 
tice. A mechanic, with intuition and knowledge for designing, construct- 
ing or manufacturing bred in the bone, will always command high wages 
and the products of his labor will as a result be more costly to his employer, 
who should therefore, other things being equal, obtain higher prices for his goods 
than one who employs cheap, inexperienced workmen, and who uses cheap 
materials and inexpensive processes of manufacture. 
Wc use only the very best materials obtaitiable, and the best processes of 
manufacture, such as hand-forging:, with the strictest attention to detail and 
testing: of the manufactured articles, and employ skilled and experienced work- 
men. Yet, through the use of modern and improved machinery, roomy workshops 
and storerooms, a good system of division of labor and a large and increasing 
output, and therefore the purchase of raw material in larger quantities, we are 
enabled to benefit our customers by supplying them with instruments and apparatus 
of the very finest quality and of exceptional merit, with the most modern improve- 
ments due to suggestions received from our immediate and daily contact with the 
most advanced and prominent men in the medical profession, at prices at least • 
equal to any of our domestic or European competitors. 
