Excerpt from Talks on Rubber: Tells All About Rubber Goods Used for Medical Purposes, Sick-Room Appliances, Hospital Supplies, Maternity and Infant Goods, Elastic Stockings and Supporters, Orthopaedic Apparatus, Surgical Instruments and Many Other Things HE department of our business of which this booklet treats is often called Riker's Rubber Goods Depart ment. At other times it is termed Riker's Surgical Instrument Department. These titles are misleading, because they fail to express the scope and magnitude of this branch of our business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.