HowDay-After-DayHoldingisGivenbytheClutheAutomaticPaddrawing of abdomenThe above illustration represents the side view of the lower abdomen of a person of medium size. C, A and E is the natural line of the abdomen. D, B and F is the line when the abdomen is inflated by coughing, sneezing, or any exertion or strain. The black disc is the pad. When the wearer coughs or strains, pad end A is forced to position B, while the lower or retaining end of pad E is instantly forced inward to position F, thereby completely checking the descent of the rupture and effectively locking it in. Thus rupture is at all times retained with the least possible pressure of pad under normal conditions, yet the extra pressure needed is instantly and automatically given when any exertion or strain demands it.This automatic action of the Holding Pad alsomassagesthe ruptured parts. This massage has a soothing, healing effect—like gently rubbing your forehead when you have a headache—or like rubbing a bruised spot—and,gradually overcomes the weakness whichcausesrupture—graduallystrengthensthe weak ruptured parts, just as exercise strengthens the muscles of the arms.
drawing of abdomen
The above illustration represents the side view of the lower abdomen of a person of medium size. C, A and E is the natural line of the abdomen. D, B and F is the line when the abdomen is inflated by coughing, sneezing, or any exertion or strain. The black disc is the pad. When the wearer coughs or strains, pad end A is forced to position B, while the lower or retaining end of pad E is instantly forced inward to position F, thereby completely checking the descent of the rupture and effectively locking it in. Thus rupture is at all times retained with the least possible pressure of pad under normal conditions, yet the extra pressure needed is instantly and automatically given when any exertion or strain demands it.
This automatic action of the Holding Pad alsomassagesthe ruptured parts. This massage has a soothing, healing effect—like gently rubbing your forehead when you have a headache—or like rubbing a bruised spot—and,gradually overcomes the weakness whichcausesrupture—graduallystrengthensthe weak ruptured parts, just as exercise strengthens the muscles of the arms.
AbletoWorkWhileBeingCuredFor men with a living to make, work to do, business to attend to, families to provide for, the Cluthe Truss is nothing less than a godsend.And it means just as much to men who want to take part in athletic games, men who want active outdoor exercise.Some, in their letters to us, have called it alife-saver.For the Cluthe Truss rids work and exercise of every one of their dangers; rids them of every one of their injurious effects on rupture.You who read this—by letting us send you a Cluthe Truss on sixty days' trial—can easily prove all that; just as thousands of others have proved it.With this truss on there isn't the slightest risk of having your rupture forced out by sudden strains or movements.Just bearthatin mind—you who have been compelled, because your truss has been doing no good, to drop everything perhaps two or three times a day or more and put your rupture back.This truss puts an end to all danger of further weakening yourself while working—puts an end to all danger of making your rupture worse.Just keepthatin mind—you whonow scarcelydare do a thing—scarcely even cough or laugh, for fear of bad effects on your rupture—for fear your truss will yield and let the rupture escape.What You Can Do With a Cluthe Truss OnAnd with a Cluthe Truss on, work, exercise or outdoor sports will never cause any discomfort.Don't overlookthat—you who have been putting up with old-fashioned trusses or "appliances" with their belts, bands, elastics, leg-straps and other torturing harness—trusses which hurt so much every time you move that they almost drive you frantic.Instead of letting work injure you in any way, a Cluthe Truss (as previously explained) makes the work you do and the exercise you take actually help make your rupturebetter—makes your work actually have ahealingorcurativeeffect.There is plenty of proof of that.Men doingheavywork, and doing it every day—men like farmers, blacksmiths, railway firemen, factory workers, miners, etc.—are among those cured by this truss; cured whileworkingright along, cured while earning good incomes.Also men taking more or less violent exercise, like base-ball players, tennis players, horse-back and bicycle riders, etc.A Few Of The Men Who Were Cured While WorkingSome of them, while working, remember, cured in less than three months.A lot of them cured in from four to twelve months; among them men who had been ruptured as long as fifteen to thirty years.And took only a little while longer for some who had been ruptured as long as fifty years to be cured.You will find, at the back of this book, many letters in proof of this.*****We have seen the Cluthe Truss do so much good for so many other people that we feel sure it can do wonders for you.So sure it will help you, just as it did them that—as explained in a later chapter—we are willing to let you test it on sixty days' trial, to prove just how much it can benefit you.Don’tLetYourselfBeScaredIntoRiskingAnOperationCluthe Truss Has Done Away with All Need ForOperation, Except in Occasional CasesPeopleusedto think that an operation was the only way to cure rupture—thought they had to be cut open.Just as peopleusedto know no better than to undergobleeding,no matter in what way they were sick. Histories and biographies tell us it was the loss of blood from this barbarous bleeding which led to George Washington's death.But nowadays we never hear of bleeding.Just as fever patients are no longer denied ice water and ice applications. Though, not so many years ago, people were literally allowed to burn up with fever.Thousands Have Died Under The Surgeon's KnifeOperation for rupture, for reasons stated below has never been much more than a life-or-death chance, even for those with a rugged constitution. Thousands of ruptured people have died under the surgeon's knife.Oftentimes a weak heart—because of the ether—makes it unsafe even to attempt operation.And it has always been a big expense which not one in a hundred could afford. Even though it had no dangers, the cost and the long lay-off from work or business make it useless for the majority of sufferers to think of an operation.The reasons operation is so risky for most people are these:The sufferer is seldom in condition for an operation, is run down, the vitality is low—that is why the muscles over the intestines have weakened and spread.Another grave danger lies in the fact that a very large opening must be made—many delicate tissues cut through—before the surgeon can reach the weakened muscles which caused the rupture.Moreover, in a surgical operation, the relaxed muscles are tightened simply by shortening them—by cutting out a piece.But nothing is done to strengthen these muscles. Nature is in no way assisted. The parts usually remain weak—that is why,whena man leaves the hospital after an operation for rupture, he is usually told to wear a truss or support.And that is why, in about six out of every ten apparently successful operations, the rupture sooner or later breaks out anew.So we would never advise an operation, save as a last resort. As in strangulated hernia, where there is no hope except through heroic measures.Save in very rare cases, there is now no need whatever to undergo the dangers of an operation—no need to risk the surgeon's knife. No need to incur the big expense of going to a hospital—no need to lose any time from work or business—no need to be in bed a single day.For since the invention of the Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager, the day of operation is over, save for an occasional case.The Cluthe Truss has probably effected morepermanentcures than all the operations ever performed.And is alwayssafe, and almost invariablybeneficial, whether or not it brings complete cure. (Cure is sometimes impossible, as told in another chapter.)WhyOrdinaryTrussesDoMoreHarmThanGoodThe country is full of trusses which are nothing but more or less worthless makeshifts. Some with so little merit that they try to hide under other names.Like the junk handed out at drug-stores. Like the traps peddled by the quacks who pose as Hernia "Specialists."Trusses and appliances with belts, bands or springs around thewaist, trusses with leg-straps, etc.Some of these trusses cost little more to make than a pair of good suspenders or garters. A little leather, a few pieces of elastic or web band, a cloth-covered pad with sawdust in it, is about all there is to them.So, like suspenders or garters, they absorb perspiration; that rots them so they soon give out.But their greatest weakness isn't in their cheap materials; it's in their unscientific construction, in the fact that they usually do more harm than good.Your Suspenders Would Do As Much Good As Some TrussesA rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so apt to do harm.Might just as well wear your suspenders or garters over your rupture as some of the trusses and devices with which this country is overrun. Some of these trusses would hold your rupture just about as well if you left them hanging in the closet instead of wearing them.During the many years The Cluthe Rupture Institute was located in New York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such trusses.Every day, one after another of the victims of such appliances were coming to us for relief.When we examined these patients, we usually found that the rupture had pushed the pads aside and worked out above or below them.Sometimes we found that the pads had worked away from the rupture opening, worked down against the pelvic bone. And the ruptured parts had slipped out and were being squeezed between the pads and the bone. A condition apt to result in strangulation.Some of these patients came to us suffering intense torture from the terrific pressure of such trusses—pressure perhaps ten times greater than needed—and this cruel pressure is exerted from the wrong direction, in the wrong place.Perhaps merely a slight sneeze or cough is enough to push the pads out of position. And then the pressure of these pads forces the ruptured parts out, instead of holding them in.Sometimes the pads had slipped down so far on the pelvic bone—or had been pulled down by the leg-straps—that there was no support for the rupture whatever.And this constant pressure against the pelvic bone saps the vitality. Often causing sexual weakness and mental failing. For between this bone and the outer skin is the sensitive life-giving spermatic cord.Ordinary Trusses May Bring On Other AilmentsAlso, we have found in hundreds of cases that these belt and spring trusses press against the femoral artery so severely that heart disorders result. Causing dizziness, headaches, irritability, etc. Yet the patient seldom associates his truss with these troubles, seldom knows their cause.And constipation and stomach troubles are often brought on by these trusses. Gas on the stomach is a common result.These troubles can be remedied only by removing the cause—only by discarding the harmful truss.The Cluthe Truss soon overcomes such complications. We have countless letters—from people formerly suffering from such troubles brought on by wrong trusses—telling how the Cluthe Truss has given them a new lease on life—made them feel many years younger.Among patients who came to us wearing spring trusses, we have often found evidence of injury to the spine.For such trusses press against the spine—the delicate center of the nervous system—just as cruelly as they dig into the abdomen and the pelvic bone in front.And frequently, when patients came to us wearing belt trusses, we have found the tender skin all cut and bruised where the belt fits around the body. And nearly always the cruel leg-straps had made the wearer's legs raw and sore.The sufferer who wears a truss like these can scarcely have a moment's comfort.Thousands of belt and spring trusses have been thrown away by new patients at our Institute, after we had fitted them with Cluthe Trusses.And among all these discarded trusses we have never found one that could be properly adjusted—the pressure couldn't be properly regulated.There is by far too much pressure at times when only slight pressure is needed.And, at times of strain, when more pressure is needed, there is no increase in pressure to meet that need.This unregulated pressure tends tostretchthe weakened muscles at the point of rupture—distends and enlarges the opening.That is one reason why a rupture grows constantly worse when a leg-strap or spring truss is worn. Such trusses are acrime—wearing them is simply slow suicide.We keep a record showing the history of every rupture we treat.This record shows that every severe rupture with which we have had to deal has grown into a serious case solely through the wear of some form of the belt or spring truss.Just judge of all this by your own experience. Probably, in spite of the trusses you've been wearing, your rupture has grown constantly worse instead of better.And then—for the sake of comparison—just read some of the letters you'll find at the back of this book; see the verdicts of people who have had experience with both the Cluthe Truss and with other kinds.
For men with a living to make, work to do, business to attend to, families to provide for, the Cluthe Truss is nothing less than a godsend.
And it means just as much to men who want to take part in athletic games, men who want active outdoor exercise.
Some, in their letters to us, have called it alife-saver.
For the Cluthe Truss rids work and exercise of every one of their dangers; rids them of every one of their injurious effects on rupture.
You who read this—by letting us send you a Cluthe Truss on sixty days' trial—can easily prove all that; just as thousands of others have proved it.
With this truss on there isn't the slightest risk of having your rupture forced out by sudden strains or movements.
Just bearthatin mind—you who have been compelled, because your truss has been doing no good, to drop everything perhaps two or three times a day or more and put your rupture back.
This truss puts an end to all danger of further weakening yourself while working—puts an end to all danger of making your rupture worse.
Just keepthatin mind—you whonow scarcelydare do a thing—scarcely even cough or laugh, for fear of bad effects on your rupture—for fear your truss will yield and let the rupture escape.
What You Can Do With a Cluthe Truss On
And with a Cluthe Truss on, work, exercise or outdoor sports will never cause any discomfort.
Don't overlookthat—you who have been putting up with old-fashioned trusses or "appliances" with their belts, bands, elastics, leg-straps and other torturing harness—trusses which hurt so much every time you move that they almost drive you frantic.
Instead of letting work injure you in any way, a Cluthe Truss (as previously explained) makes the work you do and the exercise you take actually help make your rupturebetter—makes your work actually have ahealingorcurativeeffect.
There is plenty of proof of that.
Men doingheavywork, and doing it every day—men like farmers, blacksmiths, railway firemen, factory workers, miners, etc.—are among those cured by this truss; cured whileworkingright along, cured while earning good incomes.
Also men taking more or less violent exercise, like base-ball players, tennis players, horse-back and bicycle riders, etc.
A Few Of The Men Who Were Cured While Working
Some of them, while working, remember, cured in less than three months.
A lot of them cured in from four to twelve months; among them men who had been ruptured as long as fifteen to thirty years.
And took only a little while longer for some who had been ruptured as long as fifty years to be cured.
You will find, at the back of this book, many letters in proof of this.
*****
We have seen the Cluthe Truss do so much good for so many other people that we feel sure it can do wonders for you.
So sure it will help you, just as it did them that—as explained in a later chapter—we are willing to let you test it on sixty days' trial, to prove just how much it can benefit you.
Peopleusedto think that an operation was the only way to cure rupture—thought they had to be cut open.
Just as peopleusedto know no better than to undergobleeding,no matter in what way they were sick. Histories and biographies tell us it was the loss of blood from this barbarous bleeding which led to George Washington's death.
But nowadays we never hear of bleeding.
Just as fever patients are no longer denied ice water and ice applications. Though, not so many years ago, people were literally allowed to burn up with fever.
Thousands Have Died Under The Surgeon's Knife
Operation for rupture, for reasons stated below has never been much more than a life-or-death chance, even for those with a rugged constitution. Thousands of ruptured people have died under the surgeon's knife.
Oftentimes a weak heart—because of the ether—makes it unsafe even to attempt operation.
And it has always been a big expense which not one in a hundred could afford. Even though it had no dangers, the cost and the long lay-off from work or business make it useless for the majority of sufferers to think of an operation.
The reasons operation is so risky for most people are these:
The sufferer is seldom in condition for an operation, is run down, the vitality is low—that is why the muscles over the intestines have weakened and spread.
Another grave danger lies in the fact that a very large opening must be made—many delicate tissues cut through—before the surgeon can reach the weakened muscles which caused the rupture.
Moreover, in a surgical operation, the relaxed muscles are tightened simply by shortening them—by cutting out a piece.
But nothing is done to strengthen these muscles. Nature is in no way assisted. The parts usually remain weak—that is why,whena man leaves the hospital after an operation for rupture, he is usually told to wear a truss or support.
And that is why, in about six out of every ten apparently successful operations, the rupture sooner or later breaks out anew.
So we would never advise an operation, save as a last resort. As in strangulated hernia, where there is no hope except through heroic measures.
Save in very rare cases, there is now no need whatever to undergo the dangers of an operation—no need to risk the surgeon's knife. No need to incur the big expense of going to a hospital—no need to lose any time from work or business—no need to be in bed a single day.
For since the invention of the Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager, the day of operation is over, save for an occasional case.
The Cluthe Truss has probably effected morepermanentcures than all the operations ever performed.
And is alwayssafe, and almost invariablybeneficial, whether or not it brings complete cure. (Cure is sometimes impossible, as told in another chapter.)
The country is full of trusses which are nothing but more or less worthless makeshifts. Some with so little merit that they try to hide under other names.
Like the junk handed out at drug-stores. Like the traps peddled by the quacks who pose as Hernia "Specialists."
Trusses and appliances with belts, bands or springs around thewaist, trusses with leg-straps, etc.
Some of these trusses cost little more to make than a pair of good suspenders or garters. A little leather, a few pieces of elastic or web band, a cloth-covered pad with sawdust in it, is about all there is to them.
So, like suspenders or garters, they absorb perspiration; that rots them so they soon give out.
But their greatest weakness isn't in their cheap materials; it's in their unscientific construction, in the fact that they usually do more harm than good.
Your Suspenders Would Do As Much Good As Some Trusses
A rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so apt to do harm.
Might just as well wear your suspenders or garters over your rupture as some of the trusses and devices with which this country is overrun. Some of these trusses would hold your rupture just about as well if you left them hanging in the closet instead of wearing them.
During the many years The Cluthe Rupture Institute was located in New York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such trusses.
Every day, one after another of the victims of such appliances were coming to us for relief.
When we examined these patients, we usually found that the rupture had pushed the pads aside and worked out above or below them.
Sometimes we found that the pads had worked away from the rupture opening, worked down against the pelvic bone. And the ruptured parts had slipped out and were being squeezed between the pads and the bone. A condition apt to result in strangulation.
Some of these patients came to us suffering intense torture from the terrific pressure of such trusses—pressure perhaps ten times greater than needed—and this cruel pressure is exerted from the wrong direction, in the wrong place.
Perhaps merely a slight sneeze or cough is enough to push the pads out of position. And then the pressure of these pads forces the ruptured parts out, instead of holding them in.
Sometimes the pads had slipped down so far on the pelvic bone—or had been pulled down by the leg-straps—that there was no support for the rupture whatever.
And this constant pressure against the pelvic bone saps the vitality. Often causing sexual weakness and mental failing. For between this bone and the outer skin is the sensitive life-giving spermatic cord.
Ordinary Trusses May Bring On Other Ailments
Also, we have found in hundreds of cases that these belt and spring trusses press against the femoral artery so severely that heart disorders result. Causing dizziness, headaches, irritability, etc. Yet the patient seldom associates his truss with these troubles, seldom knows their cause.
And constipation and stomach troubles are often brought on by these trusses. Gas on the stomach is a common result.
These troubles can be remedied only by removing the cause—only by discarding the harmful truss.
The Cluthe Truss soon overcomes such complications. We have countless letters—from people formerly suffering from such troubles brought on by wrong trusses—telling how the Cluthe Truss has given them a new lease on life—made them feel many years younger.
Among patients who came to us wearing spring trusses, we have often found evidence of injury to the spine.
For such trusses press against the spine—the delicate center of the nervous system—just as cruelly as they dig into the abdomen and the pelvic bone in front.
And frequently, when patients came to us wearing belt trusses, we have found the tender skin all cut and bruised where the belt fits around the body. And nearly always the cruel leg-straps had made the wearer's legs raw and sore.
The sufferer who wears a truss like these can scarcely have a moment's comfort.
Thousands of belt and spring trusses have been thrown away by new patients at our Institute, after we had fitted them with Cluthe Trusses.
And among all these discarded trusses we have never found one that could be properly adjusted—the pressure couldn't be properly regulated.
There is by far too much pressure at times when only slight pressure is needed.
And, at times of strain, when more pressure is needed, there is no increase in pressure to meet that need.
This unregulated pressure tends tostretchthe weakened muscles at the point of rupture—distends and enlarges the opening.
That is one reason why a rupture grows constantly worse when a leg-strap or spring truss is worn. Such trusses are acrime—wearing them is simply slow suicide.
We keep a record showing the history of every rupture we treat.
This record shows that every severe rupture with which we have had to deal has grown into a serious case solely through the wear of some form of the belt or spring truss.
Just judge of all this by your own experience. Probably, in spite of the trusses you've been wearing, your rupture has grown constantly worse instead of better.
And then—for the sake of comparison—just read some of the letters you'll find at the back of this book; see the verdicts of people who have had experience with both the Cluthe Truss and with other kinds.
TrussesLikeTheseAreACrime'How leg strap pulls pad on pelvic bone''How pressure is secured by an Elastic Truss'So-called "Appliances" are Usually Merely a Slight Adaptation of this Style of Truss—Merely the Most Worthless Kinds of Trusses Masquerading under Misleading Names.The only way to give leverage to the pad is to tighten up the belt and the leg-straps. The tighter they are, the farther they pull the pad away from the rupture opening. The leg-straps pull the pad down on the pelvic bone, where its pressure squeezes the life-giving spermatic cord.Whenever the wearer coughs, sneezes or is under strain, the bowels leave their natural position, working out and in through the rupture opening (due to flexibility and stretching of straps), and the bowels when out are repeatedly pressed between the pelvic bone and the pad.'How pad presses on pelvic bone'The Cruel Spring Truss'How pressure is secured by a Spring Truss'It is impossible to keep the spring truss in position. Due to the force of the springs around the waist, the pads dig against the pelvic bone with terrible pressure, sapping the vitality. The previous chapter shows how most ruptures grow constantly worse when trusses like these are worn.Dotted lines in lower illustration show Spring Truss coiled up before applied. Try to hold springs apart as when on the body as shown for half a minute. Then you will know what criminal pressure the spring truss gives.full page (thumbnail)truss described in text
So-called "Appliances" are Usually Merely a Slight Adaptation of this Style of Truss—Merely the Most Worthless Kinds of Trusses Masquerading under Misleading Names.
The only way to give leverage to the pad is to tighten up the belt and the leg-straps. The tighter they are, the farther they pull the pad away from the rupture opening. The leg-straps pull the pad down on the pelvic bone, where its pressure squeezes the life-giving spermatic cord.
Whenever the wearer coughs, sneezes or is under strain, the bowels leave their natural position, working out and in through the rupture opening (due to flexibility and stretching of straps), and the bowels when out are repeatedly pressed between the pelvic bone and the pad.
The Cruel Spring Truss
'How pressure is secured by a Spring Truss'
It is impossible to keep the spring truss in position. Due to the force of the springs around the waist, the pads dig against the pelvic bone with terrible pressure, sapping the vitality. The previous chapter shows how most ruptures grow constantly worse when trusses like these are worn.
Dotted lines in lower illustration show Spring Truss coiled up before applied. Try to hold springs apart as when on the body as shown for half a minute. Then you will know what criminal pressure the spring truss gives.
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LawShouldStoptheSaleofDrugStoreTrussesWe believe the day will soon come when laws will be passed forbidding any one either to fit or sell trusses without a legal license.Just as physicians, surgeons and dentists must all have licenses. So must oculists and opticians, in most states. Also druggists, before they can fill prescriptions.And, unless a man has made a specialized study of rupture—unless he has a thorough knowledge of it—he should no more be allowed to sell or fit trusses than a schoolboy should be allowed to practice medicine.Ruptured people seriously risk their health when they trust their cases to any one who hasn't made a thorough, specialized study of rupture. That is almost as dangerous as having a prescription filled by an inexperienced clerk, instead of by a registered pharmacist. For a wrong truss can cause immense harm.Trusses Should Be Sold Only Under LicenseWhen the time comes when trusses can be sold only under license, we'll see most of the self-styled "Hernia Specialists" driven out of business.We'll also see an end to the selling of "stock" trusses by general Mail-Order houses where an order for a truss is handled in exactly the same way—and often by the same man—as an order for groceries or hardware.And, when that time comes, mighty few drug-stores will be able to sell trusses.Let us show why.Take the following as an example:A man mightthinkhe had only a bad cold.And might go to a drug-store.Now, a druggist doesn't pretend to knowdisease—he simply knowsdrugs.So about all the druggist could do would be to hand out some patent medicine—some cure-all.But if the man went out to a goodphysician—Thephysicianmight find, after asking a few questions and thus making a diagnosis, that the patient hadLa Grippe, orPneumonia, orPleurisy(instead of merely acold, as the patientthought).The physician would find out what the patientneeded, then write a specific prescription—and seldom the same prescription for any two patients. For the requirements would alwaysdiffer.Or a man might have pooreyesight.He might go to anoptician.Now, anopticiandoesn't know much abouteyes—hehas made a special study oflenses—hemerelyfitsglasses—just as adruggistmerelyfillsprescriptions—neither pretends todiagnoseorprescribe.And anopticianis just as likely as not to fit anear-sighted man withfar-sighted glasses.A Truss Fitter Should Know as Much About Rupture as an Oculist About the EyesBut if the man with poor eyesight goes to anoculist—Theoculistfinds out what thetroubleis—and what kind of glasses areneeded—thenprescribesthat kind of glasses.And then theoptician fitsthe man according to theoculist's prescription. Just as adruggistfills aphysician'sprescription.Now our method of fitting you by mail is precisely like the physician's method.From your answers to the simple questions we ask on our information blank, we first decide theneedsof your case—then weprescribe—then wefillour prescription by making especially for your case exactly the kind of truss you need.A physician never asksyouwhatkindof medicineyou want—heprescribesfor you the kind whichheknows youneed.But if you go to adrug-storefor a truss, the clerk behind the counter asks you whatkindof truss youwant!You must be yourowndoctor.Druggists Know Nothing about RuptureNeither the drug clerk nor the druggist knows enough aboutruptureto know what kind oftrussyouneed.And, usually, his knowledge oftrussesis confined to the difference inprices—he'd rather sell you a $10 truss than a $3 truss.His knowledge offittingis not much greater.If you measure 36 inches around the hips, he gives you a 36-inch truss—which, in everything except size, would be exactly like the truss he'd sell at the same price, to a man with a rupture onlyhalfas bad as yours, or to a man with a rupturetwiceas bad as yours.A drug-store sells trusses in exactly the same way that the old-fashioned shoe store sold shoes.It was solely a matter of how much the customer wanted topay, and thestylethe customerwanted—notwhat the customerneeded.Thousands of people have been "all crippled up" because their shoes were tooshort, or toonarrow, or thewrong shape. The old-fashioned shoe clerk knew hisstock, but he didn't know enough about the customer'sfeetto know when the customer wasproperly fitted.Just as thousands of people have trouble with their glasses because they were fitted by anoptician—"over the counter,"—instead of having anoculist prescribefor them.And, partly because improperly fitted at drug-stores, and partly because drug-store trusses are usually mere makeshifts, thousands of people are to-day wearing trusses which are doing immenseharminstead of good—trusses which cause the rupture to grow constantly worse.Even if there is any druggist in the country whodoeshappen to know much about rupture and about fitting trusses, he'd have to be a mighty bright man to be able to fit you at all properly with the kind of trusses sold in the average drug-store.Practically all the drug-store trusses are simply some form of the old belt or springs and leg-strap truss—though sold under hundreds of different names as "improvements." They are usuallycheaply constructed—turned out by machinery in immense quantities.And they are always ready-made "stock" trusses. Each kind made in only one model or style, and the pads in only a few different shapes and sizes.Making mighty scant provision for the wide variation between the ruptures of different people; making mighty little allowance for the fact that what will do for one man won't do at all for another.Each Man Requires Something DifferentYour rupture, when out, may be the size of a hen's egg; your neighbor may have a protrusion almost as big as his head; and a lot of other men with protrusions ranging all the way from one extreme to the other. To say nothing of big differences in other ways besides size.Each of you should have a size and shape of holding pad especially adapted to the needs of your case—each should have a truss put together especially for you. Else there can be no such thing as continuous, comfortable holding of the rupture.So you see the absurdity of trying to get a comfortably fitting truss at a drug-store, or of expecting to get one that will do much good.Might as well expect all men to be properly fitted in a shoe store which carries only one size and shape of shoe. Or in a hat store which carries only one size of hat. Might as well expect both near-sighted and far-sighted men to see better if both wore the same kind of glasses. And might as well expect common window-glass to improve the eye-sight as to expect common drug-store trusses to do any good.Just Like Getting GlassesThere is just as much difference in different men's ruptures as in the size and shape of their feet or heads.Just as much variation in rupture as in failing eyesight. And everybody knows that one man may need very powerful glasses, while another needs glasses which magnify only slightly; one may need a double lens, while another needs only a single lens; one may need convex lenses, while another needs concave.All this doesn't mean that it is hard to fit ruptured people, but merely that ample provision must be made for the different requirements. As a shoe store does for men's feet.We have found it necessary to make the Cluthe Holding Pads in 115 different styles, shapes and sizes. And frequently we have to make a special style or size.Thus, no matter what your rupture is like, we can fit you with a Cluthe Truss—one put together especially for you—one that will meet your requirements just as well as a shoe store can fit you with shoes, or an oculist fit you with exactly the kind of glasses you need.*****It is for these reasons—their ignorance of rupture—that we have never sold the Cluthe Truss through druggists.Trusses are simply aside-linein the average drug-store. Just ascigarsare, or "soft drinks."A druggist knows all aboutdrugs.He has madethemhis specialstudy.But hedoesn'tknow much aboutrupture—doesn't pretend to—and can't be expected to. Because hehasn'tmade astudyof it.It tookus, here at the Cluthe Rupture Institute, overforty yearsto learn all that wenowknow about Rupture.Forty yearsof day-after-dayconcentrationon thestudyandtreatmentof Rupture.And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which no oneelsehasever learned—we have gained knowledge which is exclusively ourown.And it took many years of scientific study and experiment to perfect theCluthe Truss, and to design the hundreds of differentkinds,sizes, andshapesof Holding Pads which adapt this truss to every form and condition of Rupture known to-day.We have told you this, Reader, to show that placing yourself in our care is vastly different from going to adrug-store, or to a meredealerin trusses ormanufacturerof them.And the following chapters will show that even more conclusively.
We believe the day will soon come when laws will be passed forbidding any one either to fit or sell trusses without a legal license.
Just as physicians, surgeons and dentists must all have licenses. So must oculists and opticians, in most states. Also druggists, before they can fill prescriptions.
And, unless a man has made a specialized study of rupture—unless he has a thorough knowledge of it—he should no more be allowed to sell or fit trusses than a schoolboy should be allowed to practice medicine.
Ruptured people seriously risk their health when they trust their cases to any one who hasn't made a thorough, specialized study of rupture. That is almost as dangerous as having a prescription filled by an inexperienced clerk, instead of by a registered pharmacist. For a wrong truss can cause immense harm.
Trusses Should Be Sold Only Under License
When the time comes when trusses can be sold only under license, we'll see most of the self-styled "Hernia Specialists" driven out of business.
We'll also see an end to the selling of "stock" trusses by general Mail-Order houses where an order for a truss is handled in exactly the same way—and often by the same man—as an order for groceries or hardware.
And, when that time comes, mighty few drug-stores will be able to sell trusses.
Let us show why.
Take the following as an example:
A man mightthinkhe had only a bad cold.
And might go to a drug-store.
Now, a druggist doesn't pretend to knowdisease—he simply knowsdrugs.
So about all the druggist could do would be to hand out some patent medicine—some cure-all.
But if the man went out to a goodphysician—
Thephysicianmight find, after asking a few questions and thus making a diagnosis, that the patient hadLa Grippe, orPneumonia, orPleurisy(instead of merely acold, as the patientthought).
The physician would find out what the patientneeded, then write a specific prescription—and seldom the same prescription for any two patients. For the requirements would alwaysdiffer.
Or a man might have pooreyesight.
He might go to anoptician.
Now, anopticiandoesn't know much abouteyes—hehas made a special study oflenses—hemerelyfitsglasses—just as adruggistmerelyfillsprescriptions—neither pretends todiagnoseorprescribe.
And anopticianis just as likely as not to fit anear-sighted man withfar-sighted glasses.
A Truss Fitter Should Know as Much About Rupture as an Oculist About the Eyes
But if the man with poor eyesight goes to anoculist—
Theoculistfinds out what thetroubleis—and what kind of glasses areneeded—thenprescribesthat kind of glasses.
And then theoptician fitsthe man according to theoculist's prescription. Just as adruggistfills aphysician'sprescription.
Now our method of fitting you by mail is precisely like the physician's method.
From your answers to the simple questions we ask on our information blank, we first decide theneedsof your case—then weprescribe—then wefillour prescription by making especially for your case exactly the kind of truss you need.
A physician never asksyouwhatkindof medicineyou want—heprescribesfor you the kind whichheknows youneed.
But if you go to adrug-storefor a truss, the clerk behind the counter asks you whatkindof truss youwant!
You must be yourowndoctor.
Druggists Know Nothing about Rupture
Neither the drug clerk nor the druggist knows enough aboutruptureto know what kind oftrussyouneed.
And, usually, his knowledge oftrussesis confined to the difference inprices—he'd rather sell you a $10 truss than a $3 truss.
His knowledge offittingis not much greater.
If you measure 36 inches around the hips, he gives you a 36-inch truss—which, in everything except size, would be exactly like the truss he'd sell at the same price, to a man with a rupture onlyhalfas bad as yours, or to a man with a rupturetwiceas bad as yours.
A drug-store sells trusses in exactly the same way that the old-fashioned shoe store sold shoes.
It was solely a matter of how much the customer wanted topay, and thestylethe customerwanted—notwhat the customerneeded.
Thousands of people have been "all crippled up" because their shoes were tooshort, or toonarrow, or thewrong shape. The old-fashioned shoe clerk knew hisstock, but he didn't know enough about the customer'sfeetto know when the customer wasproperly fitted.
Just as thousands of people have trouble with their glasses because they were fitted by anoptician—"over the counter,"—instead of having anoculist prescribefor them.
And, partly because improperly fitted at drug-stores, and partly because drug-store trusses are usually mere makeshifts, thousands of people are to-day wearing trusses which are doing immenseharminstead of good—trusses which cause the rupture to grow constantly worse.
Even if there is any druggist in the country whodoeshappen to know much about rupture and about fitting trusses, he'd have to be a mighty bright man to be able to fit you at all properly with the kind of trusses sold in the average drug-store.
Practically all the drug-store trusses are simply some form of the old belt or springs and leg-strap truss—though sold under hundreds of different names as "improvements." They are usuallycheaply constructed—turned out by machinery in immense quantities.
And they are always ready-made "stock" trusses. Each kind made in only one model or style, and the pads in only a few different shapes and sizes.
Making mighty scant provision for the wide variation between the ruptures of different people; making mighty little allowance for the fact that what will do for one man won't do at all for another.
Each Man Requires Something Different
Your rupture, when out, may be the size of a hen's egg; your neighbor may have a protrusion almost as big as his head; and a lot of other men with protrusions ranging all the way from one extreme to the other. To say nothing of big differences in other ways besides size.
Each of you should have a size and shape of holding pad especially adapted to the needs of your case—each should have a truss put together especially for you. Else there can be no such thing as continuous, comfortable holding of the rupture.
So you see the absurdity of trying to get a comfortably fitting truss at a drug-store, or of expecting to get one that will do much good.
Might as well expect all men to be properly fitted in a shoe store which carries only one size and shape of shoe. Or in a hat store which carries only one size of hat. Might as well expect both near-sighted and far-sighted men to see better if both wore the same kind of glasses. And might as well expect common window-glass to improve the eye-sight as to expect common drug-store trusses to do any good.
Just Like Getting Glasses
There is just as much difference in different men's ruptures as in the size and shape of their feet or heads.
Just as much variation in rupture as in failing eyesight. And everybody knows that one man may need very powerful glasses, while another needs glasses which magnify only slightly; one may need a double lens, while another needs only a single lens; one may need convex lenses, while another needs concave.
All this doesn't mean that it is hard to fit ruptured people, but merely that ample provision must be made for the different requirements. As a shoe store does for men's feet.
We have found it necessary to make the Cluthe Holding Pads in 115 different styles, shapes and sizes. And frequently we have to make a special style or size.
Thus, no matter what your rupture is like, we can fit you with a Cluthe Truss—one put together especially for you—one that will meet your requirements just as well as a shoe store can fit you with shoes, or an oculist fit you with exactly the kind of glasses you need.
*****
It is for these reasons—their ignorance of rupture—that we have never sold the Cluthe Truss through druggists.
Trusses are simply aside-linein the average drug-store. Just ascigarsare, or "soft drinks."
A druggist knows all aboutdrugs.
He has madethemhis specialstudy.
But hedoesn'tknow much aboutrupture—doesn't pretend to—and can't be expected to. Because hehasn'tmade astudyof it.
It tookus, here at the Cluthe Rupture Institute, overforty yearsto learn all that wenowknow about Rupture.
Forty yearsof day-after-dayconcentrationon thestudyandtreatmentof Rupture.
And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which no oneelsehasever learned—we have gained knowledge which is exclusively ourown.
And it took many years of scientific study and experiment to perfect theCluthe Truss, and to design the hundreds of differentkinds,sizes, andshapesof Holding Pads which adapt this truss to every form and condition of Rupture known to-day.
We have told you this, Reader, to show that placing yourself in our care is vastly different from going to adrug-store, or to a meredealerin trusses ormanufacturerof them.
And the following chapters will show that even more conclusively.
Cluthe Holding PadsShowing a few of the different sizes and shapes in which the Cluthe Holding Pads are made.
Cluthe Holding Pads
Showing a few of the different sizes and shapes in which the Cluthe Holding Pads are made.
PhysiciansAdviseClutheTrussInsteadofOperationUntil they know of something better, most physicians, because of their training, naturally believe in hospital treatment for rupture—naturally favor operations.But few good physicians would ever advise an operation if they knew of the Cluthe Truss and the world of good it has done.Just as no conscientious physician would ever think of sending anyone to the drug-store for a truss if he knew how much more beneficial a Cluthe Truss is.Too bad, for the sake of their ruptured patients, that more physicians don't know the facts about this truss. Too bad the good news hasn't yet spread among all the profession.However, thousands of physicians all over the country are already familiar with the facts—thousands have seen the folly of expecting ordinary trusses to do any good—thousands now know that getting a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss and our professional care and attention in connection with it, is a vastly different thing than going to a drug-store for a truss.Just as calling in a physician and having him prescribe exactly what you need for typhoid, grippe, nervous trouble, rheumatism or other sickness, is a hundred times more likely to give you relief than if you go to a drug-store for some patent medicine "cure-all."So far as we know, every physician who has impartially looked into the merits of the Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss and the care and attention we give has from that time on (unless operation was absolutely necessary) been advising a trial of the Cluthe Truss in all cases of rupture which come under his charge.Among such physicians are many connected with hospitals,who almost invariably advise a trial of the Cluthe Truss instead of an operation; just as they would prefer to cure appendicitis without an operation unless an operation seemed imperative.And many physicians (you'll find the names of some of them in the book "Your Neighbor's Word") are themselves wearing Cluthe Trusses, or have worn them until cured.RupturedPeopleSwindledOutofThousandsofDollarsLook Out for the Deceitful"Don't-Wear-a-Truss" Argumentsand the Tricky "Not-a-Truss" ClaimsGet-Rich-Quick Quacks are year after year humbugging ruptured people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.The traps they set are cleverly baited. But the bait always consists of misrepresentation and tricky subterfuges.Some style themselves "doctors"—an insult to the medical profession.Some call themselves "Captain" or "Colonel"—an attempt to get the sympathy of Civil War veterans.Some try to work on your sympathies by telling you they were themselves formerly ruptured—that they got their knowledge of rupture by studying their own cases—that they made a special "appliance" for themselves. But a doctor or surgeon can't set his own arm. And no one can make a scientific study of his own rupture any more than he can perform an operation on himself.And some call themselves Rupture or Hernia "Specialists"—but never specialized in anything except swindling ruptured people.Some of them make offers like "Free to the Ruptured"—so worded as to make a man think it means free cure. But all they send you free is a cheap little folder or circular. People who write to them soon learn to know better than to expect something for nothing.Don't be Fooled by "Appliances," "Methods," etc.And some try to snare their victims with deceitful "Don't-Wear-a-Truss" talk.Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.Try to fool you with things they call "Appliances," "Methods," "Discoveries," etc.But the man who puts any faith in such claims soon finds that these so-called "Appliances" and "Methods" are nothing but an adaptation of the old-fashioned truss with belt, band, leg-straps, springs, etc. Nothing but the most worthless kind of a truss masquerading under a misleading name.Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment—tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances.But that is nothing more nor less than the rankest kind of fraud.It is folly to suppose any salve, liniment or medicine can possibly cure rupture. Might as well expect them to cure a broken bone. Though they can probably do as much good as the worthless "appliances" they come with.The Liniment FraudWhen you first apply this "lymph" or liniment, you may feel some stimulating effects; for these lymph-sellers are always careful to tell you torubthe stuffinthoroughly. But the stimulation lasts only a few minutes; and is due to therubbingand not to the liniment. If you rub with your fingers alone—without any liniment—it will do just as much good.This rubbing, while the stimulation lasts, simply proves the value ofmassage. For rubbing with your hands is, in a way, like the massage which the Cluthe Truss gives automatically. But the massage given by our truss is a hundred times more invigorating and strengthening to the ruptured parts than any amount of hand-rubbing. Our truss is giving themassageall day long, while rubbing with your hands can be done only once or twice a day at most, only when flat on your back, and only for a few minutes at a time.Some of these people claim they can cure rupture by means of a plaster—like the kidney plaster which proved worthless long ago.These plaster venders are careful to avoid saying out and out in plain language that their plaster will positively keep your rupture from coming out—they make no direct promises or guarantee whatever of holding the rupture.If they cannot guarantee holding, it is nonsense to think any plaster can possibly overcome any weakness like rupture, no matter what kind ofmagicalointment there may be in the plasters.We have talked of these kinds of people in plain language; we have called a spade a spade.For it is nothing less than a crime the way these men have grown rich by defrauding ruptured people.It is worse than the way wildcat "mining" men have robbed the unsuspecting public. For these rupture swindlers take advantage of people's suffering.How to Save Yourself from Being HumbuggedButit iseasy enough to avoid being fooled—easy enough to guard against frauds and fakes.And it is easy enough to save yourself from throwing money away on drug-store trusses and other things which may be sold without wrong intent—but which are utterly incapable of doing any particular good.Simply make up your mind not to put any faith in anything whatever for rupture unless you can get the sellers to agree to let you test it onSixty Days' Trialand under the protection of aMoney-Back Guarantee.Make sure that everything is clearly understood—see that all agreements are plainly worded—insist on a signed guarantee that your rupture will be held or your money refunded.Any concern which makes or sells a truss or anything else good enough to standthattest doesn't need to resort to misleading claims or subterfuge or trickery of any kind.Andthat—a sixty days' trial under the protection of our iron-clad money-back guarantee—is the test we ask you to make of the Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss.
Until they know of something better, most physicians, because of their training, naturally believe in hospital treatment for rupture—naturally favor operations.
But few good physicians would ever advise an operation if they knew of the Cluthe Truss and the world of good it has done.
Just as no conscientious physician would ever think of sending anyone to the drug-store for a truss if he knew how much more beneficial a Cluthe Truss is.
Too bad, for the sake of their ruptured patients, that more physicians don't know the facts about this truss. Too bad the good news hasn't yet spread among all the profession.
However, thousands of physicians all over the country are already familiar with the facts—thousands have seen the folly of expecting ordinary trusses to do any good—thousands now know that getting a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss and our professional care and attention in connection with it, is a vastly different thing than going to a drug-store for a truss.
Just as calling in a physician and having him prescribe exactly what you need for typhoid, grippe, nervous trouble, rheumatism or other sickness, is a hundred times more likely to give you relief than if you go to a drug-store for some patent medicine "cure-all."
So far as we know, every physician who has impartially looked into the merits of the Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss and the care and attention we give has from that time on (unless operation was absolutely necessary) been advising a trial of the Cluthe Truss in all cases of rupture which come under his charge.
Among such physicians are many connected with hospitals,who almost invariably advise a trial of the Cluthe Truss instead of an operation; just as they would prefer to cure appendicitis without an operation unless an operation seemed imperative.
And many physicians (you'll find the names of some of them in the book "Your Neighbor's Word") are themselves wearing Cluthe Trusses, or have worn them until cured.
Get-Rich-Quick Quacks are year after year humbugging ruptured people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The traps they set are cleverly baited. But the bait always consists of misrepresentation and tricky subterfuges.
Some style themselves "doctors"—an insult to the medical profession.
Some call themselves "Captain" or "Colonel"—an attempt to get the sympathy of Civil War veterans.
Some try to work on your sympathies by telling you they were themselves formerly ruptured—that they got their knowledge of rupture by studying their own cases—that they made a special "appliance" for themselves. But a doctor or surgeon can't set his own arm. And no one can make a scientific study of his own rupture any more than he can perform an operation on himself.
And some call themselves Rupture or Hernia "Specialists"—but never specialized in anything except swindling ruptured people.
Some of them make offers like "Free to the Ruptured"—so worded as to make a man think it means free cure. But all they send you free is a cheap little folder or circular. People who write to them soon learn to know better than to expect something for nothing.
Don't be Fooled by "Appliances," "Methods," etc.
And some try to snare their victims with deceitful "Don't-Wear-a-Truss" talk.
Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.
Try to fool you with things they call "Appliances," "Methods," "Discoveries," etc.
But the man who puts any faith in such claims soon finds that these so-called "Appliances" and "Methods" are nothing but an adaptation of the old-fashioned truss with belt, band, leg-straps, springs, etc. Nothing but the most worthless kind of a truss masquerading under a misleading name.
Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment—tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances.
But that is nothing more nor less than the rankest kind of fraud.
It is folly to suppose any salve, liniment or medicine can possibly cure rupture. Might as well expect them to cure a broken bone. Though they can probably do as much good as the worthless "appliances" they come with.
The Liniment Fraud
When you first apply this "lymph" or liniment, you may feel some stimulating effects; for these lymph-sellers are always careful to tell you torubthe stuffinthoroughly. But the stimulation lasts only a few minutes; and is due to therubbingand not to the liniment. If you rub with your fingers alone—without any liniment—it will do just as much good.
This rubbing, while the stimulation lasts, simply proves the value ofmassage. For rubbing with your hands is, in a way, like the massage which the Cluthe Truss gives automatically. But the massage given by our truss is a hundred times more invigorating and strengthening to the ruptured parts than any amount of hand-rubbing. Our truss is giving themassageall day long, while rubbing with your hands can be done only once or twice a day at most, only when flat on your back, and only for a few minutes at a time.
Some of these people claim they can cure rupture by means of a plaster—like the kidney plaster which proved worthless long ago.
These plaster venders are careful to avoid saying out and out in plain language that their plaster will positively keep your rupture from coming out—they make no direct promises or guarantee whatever of holding the rupture.
If they cannot guarantee holding, it is nonsense to think any plaster can possibly overcome any weakness like rupture, no matter what kind ofmagicalointment there may be in the plasters.
We have talked of these kinds of people in plain language; we have called a spade a spade.
For it is nothing less than a crime the way these men have grown rich by defrauding ruptured people.
It is worse than the way wildcat "mining" men have robbed the unsuspecting public. For these rupture swindlers take advantage of people's suffering.
How to Save Yourself from Being Humbugged
Butit iseasy enough to avoid being fooled—easy enough to guard against frauds and fakes.
And it is easy enough to save yourself from throwing money away on drug-store trusses and other things which may be sold without wrong intent—but which are utterly incapable of doing any particular good.
Simply make up your mind not to put any faith in anything whatever for rupture unless you can get the sellers to agree to let you test it onSixty Days' Trialand under the protection of aMoney-Back Guarantee.
Make sure that everything is clearly understood—see that all agreements are plainly worded—insist on a signed guarantee that your rupture will be held or your money refunded.
Any concern which makes or sells a truss or anything else good enough to standthattest doesn't need to resort to misleading claims or subterfuge or trickery of any kind.
Andthat—a sixty days' trial under the protection of our iron-clad money-back guarantee—is the test we ask you to make of the Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss.
ShowingHowtheClutheTrussisHeldinPlaceWithoutLeg-StrapsorOther "Harness"suction pad1suction pad2suction pad3These illustrations show the free action of the rear or Suction Pads of the Cluthe Truss.The sole work of these pads is to support the frame which passes around the body. They hold the Truss in position, so the Rupture Pads in front can't slip up or down or away from the rupture opening.These pads rest against the cushion of muscles behind the hips (the muscles forming the rump). The pads are hollow on the under side. This forms a vacuum or suction, which makes slipping or displacement impossible in any position.
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These illustrations show the free action of the rear or Suction Pads of the Cluthe Truss.
The sole work of these pads is to support the frame which passes around the body. They hold the Truss in position, so the Rupture Pads in front can't slip up or down or away from the rupture opening.
These pads rest against the cushion of muscles behind the hips (the muscles forming the rump). The pads are hollow on the under side. This forms a vacuum or suction, which makes slipping or displacement impossible in any position.
WhatWeHaveDoneFor290,000OthersAt this writing we have treated at our Institute, over 290,000 ruptures.These included all kinds and conditions. Some of them the worst cases in history.Many of these people, in despair, were at the point of undergoing an operation. But the Cluthe Truss made operation unnecessary—saved the big expense—saved the terrible risk.Among those we have fitted by mail are many infants from a few months to a few years old.And even these little ones wore the Cluthe Truss in absolute comfort while being made better, while being cured.We don't need to tell you it would be cruelty to put any other truss on children.From Infants To Men Over 80We have fitted by mail men and women over 60, 70 and 80 years old.People who had been ruptured for from twenty to fifty years.People who had tried dozens of other trusses. But never found one that would hold.Some were in such bad shape—in such pain—that they hadn't worked for years.Some of them, before getting Cluthe Trusses, couldn't walk more than two or three blocks without resting. Could hardly get around at all for fear of bad effects on their rupture.And the Cluthe Truss, with its strengthening massage, has worked thousands of cures in cases apparently hopeless like these.While in those cases where cure wasn't brought about—or hasn't yet been—this truss kept the rupture from coming out, and made the rupture better.We keep in touch with all our patients—our interest doesn't cease until we know they are getting along all right. Yet we have known of only a few cases, including the worst ones, where the rupture ever came out after the first few days' wear of this truss.Think of that—you who had almost given up hope.You can see for yourself what the Cluthe Truss has done by reading a few of the letters—all voluntarily written—which are printed at the back of this book. These letters are only a few out of the thousands we have received.CostsMoretoDoWithoutItThanToGetItYou will find it many times cheaper to get a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss than to try to do without one.As long as you put up with worthless makeshifts, you are paying the price of a Cluthe Truss over and over without getting any of its benefits.Probably paying its price again and again in time lost from work or business.For if your rupture never keeps you from putting in a full day—if you never find it a handicap—if it never keeps you at home in bed when you should be earning money—then you are far more fortunate than most ruptured people who don't wear Cluthe Trusses.And as long as you try to get along with worthless makeshifts, you have to keep buying truss after truss, paying out dollar after dollar for new trusses to take the place of those which don't last and those which don't do any good. Thus throwing away in a little while many times more than the price of a Cluthe Truss.Ordinary Trusses Are a Waste Of MoneyAs long as you go without a Cluthe Truss, your rupture keeps getting worse—probably worse now than a year ago—been getting worse every day.Thus again, you are constantly paying far more than the price of a Cluthe Truss; paying it in wear-and-tear on your health, in the drain on your strength and vitality, in the loss of many of the enjoyments which help make life worth living.Without a Cluthe Truss, your rupture is a constant worry. For a man has to be more optimistic than most ruptured people if he can look into the Future without dread when he knows his rupture isn't getting any better.No man, especially one with a family to provide for, wants to lethis rupture make him more or less helpless if there is anything he can do to prevent it.No man wants to be disabled for active work, no man wants to be dependent on others.That has been the fate of thousands who never knew of the Cluthe Truss, or who didn't have the wisdom to try it.But you who read this, now that you know the facts, have absolutely no excuse for ever letting rupture get the best of you.Don't Let Rupture Get the Best of YouNo one's fault but your own, if you now let your rupture keep on growing worse.No one but yourself to blame if you don't take the chance we give you to find out, by trial at our risk, just what the Cluthe Truss can do for you.It will beourloss and not yours if this truss doesn't at least make you a whole lot better. Butyourloss, not ours, if you neglect totryit.Unless you have already let your rupture become permanently irreducible the probabilities are that the Cluthe Truss can entirely free you from the clutches of rupture, just as it has thousands of others.You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying a Cluthe Truss.If it doesn't do any good, we'll take it back and you won't lose any money.Ends all Expense on Account of Your RuptureIf it does prove beneficial, it will in all probability last as long as you have any need for a truss. For it is mighty seldom that any part of a Cluthe Truss ever gives out, even when, as in incurable cases, it is worn year after year.So once you get a Cluthe Truss, you'll probably never have to pay out another dollar on account of your rupture.The Cluthe Trusscostsso little—only $9 to $14—that every body not a pauper can easily afford it. Costs so little—when you consider the good it does—that no one can afford to go without it.You can get lots of trusses that cost less and some that cost even more—but one Cluthe Truss is worth a dozen of them.Every thrifty man knows that goodshoes, for instance, are more economical than cheap ones; for the cheap shoes soon go to pieces, soon get shabby; one good pair would outlast three or four of the cheap ones.Every man knows that good shoes—shoes that keep the feet dry—are less expensive in the end than shoes which leak and bring on colds and sickness.Like Buying ShoesAnd every man knows that properly fitting shoes, shoes you can wear with comfort, are worth three or four pairs of shoes which hurt the feet. For no matter how little the uncomfortable shoes cost, you can't get your money's worth out of them if you can't wear them.Lots of people have common-sense enough to think of all these things in buying shoes.But lots of them let their common-sense go on vacation when it comes to buying trusses.Yet a truss is a hundred times more important than shoes.Think how much depends on a truss—your comfort, your ability to make a living, your safety when working, even your very life sometimes, all depend on your truss.If your truss is no good, if it lets any little strain throw your rupture out, there is constant danger that some sudden wrench, some slip, some fall or misstep, may throw the rupture out so violently as to causestrangulationof the rupture. And that usually ends in quick death.But the man who wears a Cluthe Truss has nothing whatever to worry about.For the Cluthe Truss keeps the rupture from coming out, takes all danger out of work or exercise, takes all strain off the weak ruptured parts, rests them, and—by automatically massaging them—daily strengthens them.As the result of this constant hold and in constant strengthening, rupture is not likely to give any more trouble from the day a Cluthe Truss is put on. Just as weak eyes won't bother you any more after you get the right kind of glasses.Does More for Rupture Than Glasses do for the EyesThe Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager is the only truss in existence that can be depended on to do for rupture what good glasses do for the eyes.In the majority of cases, it does far more.About all that glasses can do is to keep the eyes from getting worse—take the strain off them—rest them, so they won't be further weakened.No one expects glasses tocureweak eyes, no one expects them to improve the sight so much that glasses won't need to be worn.But the Cluthe Truss, in many cases,doescure rupture.You will see proof of that by reading some of the letters at the back of this book.And in those cases where it doesn't result in complete cure, it almost invariably makes the rupture better. If it doesn't do that, we are always ready to refund the purchaser's money, as fully explained in a later chapter.
At this writing we have treated at our Institute, over 290,000 ruptures.
These included all kinds and conditions. Some of them the worst cases in history.
Many of these people, in despair, were at the point of undergoing an operation. But the Cluthe Truss made operation unnecessary—saved the big expense—saved the terrible risk.
Among those we have fitted by mail are many infants from a few months to a few years old.
And even these little ones wore the Cluthe Truss in absolute comfort while being made better, while being cured.
We don't need to tell you it would be cruelty to put any other truss on children.
From Infants To Men Over 80
We have fitted by mail men and women over 60, 70 and 80 years old.
People who had been ruptured for from twenty to fifty years.
People who had tried dozens of other trusses. But never found one that would hold.
Some were in such bad shape—in such pain—that they hadn't worked for years.
Some of them, before getting Cluthe Trusses, couldn't walk more than two or three blocks without resting. Could hardly get around at all for fear of bad effects on their rupture.
And the Cluthe Truss, with its strengthening massage, has worked thousands of cures in cases apparently hopeless like these.
While in those cases where cure wasn't brought about—or hasn't yet been—this truss kept the rupture from coming out, and made the rupture better.
We keep in touch with all our patients—our interest doesn't cease until we know they are getting along all right. Yet we have known of only a few cases, including the worst ones, where the rupture ever came out after the first few days' wear of this truss.
Think of that—you who had almost given up hope.
You can see for yourself what the Cluthe Truss has done by reading a few of the letters—all voluntarily written—which are printed at the back of this book. These letters are only a few out of the thousands we have received.
You will find it many times cheaper to get a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss than to try to do without one.
As long as you put up with worthless makeshifts, you are paying the price of a Cluthe Truss over and over without getting any of its benefits.
Probably paying its price again and again in time lost from work or business.
For if your rupture never keeps you from putting in a full day—if you never find it a handicap—if it never keeps you at home in bed when you should be earning money—then you are far more fortunate than most ruptured people who don't wear Cluthe Trusses.
And as long as you try to get along with worthless makeshifts, you have to keep buying truss after truss, paying out dollar after dollar for new trusses to take the place of those which don't last and those which don't do any good. Thus throwing away in a little while many times more than the price of a Cluthe Truss.
Ordinary Trusses Are a Waste Of Money
As long as you go without a Cluthe Truss, your rupture keeps getting worse—probably worse now than a year ago—been getting worse every day.
Thus again, you are constantly paying far more than the price of a Cluthe Truss; paying it in wear-and-tear on your health, in the drain on your strength and vitality, in the loss of many of the enjoyments which help make life worth living.
Without a Cluthe Truss, your rupture is a constant worry. For a man has to be more optimistic than most ruptured people if he can look into the Future without dread when he knows his rupture isn't getting any better.
No man, especially one with a family to provide for, wants to lethis rupture make him more or less helpless if there is anything he can do to prevent it.
No man wants to be disabled for active work, no man wants to be dependent on others.
That has been the fate of thousands who never knew of the Cluthe Truss, or who didn't have the wisdom to try it.
But you who read this, now that you know the facts, have absolutely no excuse for ever letting rupture get the best of you.
Don't Let Rupture Get the Best of You
No one's fault but your own, if you now let your rupture keep on growing worse.
No one but yourself to blame if you don't take the chance we give you to find out, by trial at our risk, just what the Cluthe Truss can do for you.
It will beourloss and not yours if this truss doesn't at least make you a whole lot better. Butyourloss, not ours, if you neglect totryit.
Unless you have already let your rupture become permanently irreducible the probabilities are that the Cluthe Truss can entirely free you from the clutches of rupture, just as it has thousands of others.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying a Cluthe Truss.
If it doesn't do any good, we'll take it back and you won't lose any money.
Ends all Expense on Account of Your Rupture
If it does prove beneficial, it will in all probability last as long as you have any need for a truss. For it is mighty seldom that any part of a Cluthe Truss ever gives out, even when, as in incurable cases, it is worn year after year.
So once you get a Cluthe Truss, you'll probably never have to pay out another dollar on account of your rupture.
The Cluthe Trusscostsso little—only $9 to $14—that every body not a pauper can easily afford it. Costs so little—when you consider the good it does—that no one can afford to go without it.
You can get lots of trusses that cost less and some that cost even more—but one Cluthe Truss is worth a dozen of them.
Every thrifty man knows that goodshoes, for instance, are more economical than cheap ones; for the cheap shoes soon go to pieces, soon get shabby; one good pair would outlast three or four of the cheap ones.
Every man knows that good shoes—shoes that keep the feet dry—are less expensive in the end than shoes which leak and bring on colds and sickness.
Like Buying Shoes
And every man knows that properly fitting shoes, shoes you can wear with comfort, are worth three or four pairs of shoes which hurt the feet. For no matter how little the uncomfortable shoes cost, you can't get your money's worth out of them if you can't wear them.
Lots of people have common-sense enough to think of all these things in buying shoes.
But lots of them let their common-sense go on vacation when it comes to buying trusses.
Yet a truss is a hundred times more important than shoes.
Think how much depends on a truss—your comfort, your ability to make a living, your safety when working, even your very life sometimes, all depend on your truss.
If your truss is no good, if it lets any little strain throw your rupture out, there is constant danger that some sudden wrench, some slip, some fall or misstep, may throw the rupture out so violently as to causestrangulationof the rupture. And that usually ends in quick death.
But the man who wears a Cluthe Truss has nothing whatever to worry about.
For the Cluthe Truss keeps the rupture from coming out, takes all danger out of work or exercise, takes all strain off the weak ruptured parts, rests them, and—by automatically massaging them—daily strengthens them.
As the result of this constant hold and in constant strengthening, rupture is not likely to give any more trouble from the day a Cluthe Truss is put on. Just as weak eyes won't bother you any more after you get the right kind of glasses.
Does More for Rupture Than Glasses do for the Eyes
The Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager is the only truss in existence that can be depended on to do for rupture what good glasses do for the eyes.
In the majority of cases, it does far more.
About all that glasses can do is to keep the eyes from getting worse—take the strain off them—rest them, so they won't be further weakened.
No one expects glasses tocureweak eyes, no one expects them to improve the sight so much that glasses won't need to be worn.
But the Cluthe Truss, in many cases,doescure rupture.
You will see proof of that by reading some of the letters at the back of this book.
And in those cases where it doesn't result in complete cure, it almost invariably makes the rupture better. If it doesn't do that, we are always ready to refund the purchaser's money, as fully explained in a later chapter.
X-RayViewofClutheTrussNote that there is no Belt, Elastics or Spring around the Waist, and no Leg-StrapsCluthe trussThis Truss Can be Worn in the Bath, or when Swimming—All Parts Are Water-ProofThis X-ray view shows how simple the Cluthe Truss is—how few parts it has—its freedom from uncomfortable "harness"—and just how it looks when on.This view is taken from above—what is called a "Bird's Eye" view. The rear pads (Suction Pads) are level with the pads in front (the Automatic-Acting Holding or Rupture Pads), though they seem higher in the picture.Bear in mind that the frame you see in the picture is no way a spring or belt or band. It leaves the hips and spine free—doesn't press against the body at any point. (This is shown more clearly by the Cross-Section View on page 58.) The Suction Pads in the rear—which rest lightly on the rump—hold the truss in proper position, keeping it from slipping, shifting or moving the least bit out of place. The only purpose of the frame is to connect the Suction Pads with the Rupture Pads in front, so the truss can hold you together.The truss shown here is for a severe case of right-side Groin or Scrotal Rupture. Has Automatic-Acting Holding or Rupture Pad on the ruptured side, and a free-acting Protection Pad on the side not ruptured, thus protecting the well side against strains, etc.For Double Groin Rupture, another Holding Pad would be fitted where the Protection Pad is shown here.The Cluthe Automatic Holding Pads are made in over 115 different shapes and sizes, and are selected as the severity and nature of each case may demand.We determine the true nature and real needs of the case from the answers given to the questions on our Order blank, and then shape frame of truss so hips and spine will be left free from pressure, and select Rupture Pad or Pads of the right size and shape, and "set" or adjust the truss so it will be self-regulating in the way necessary to automatically seal the rupture opening to give proper support, and to hold the rupture properly in place.
Cluthe truss
This X-ray view shows how simple the Cluthe Truss is—how few parts it has—its freedom from uncomfortable "harness"—and just how it looks when on.
This view is taken from above—what is called a "Bird's Eye" view. The rear pads (Suction Pads) are level with the pads in front (the Automatic-Acting Holding or Rupture Pads), though they seem higher in the picture.
Bear in mind that the frame you see in the picture is no way a spring or belt or band. It leaves the hips and spine free—doesn't press against the body at any point. (This is shown more clearly by the Cross-Section View on page 58.) The Suction Pads in the rear—which rest lightly on the rump—hold the truss in proper position, keeping it from slipping, shifting or moving the least bit out of place. The only purpose of the frame is to connect the Suction Pads with the Rupture Pads in front, so the truss can hold you together.
The truss shown here is for a severe case of right-side Groin or Scrotal Rupture. Has Automatic-Acting Holding or Rupture Pad on the ruptured side, and a free-acting Protection Pad on the side not ruptured, thus protecting the well side against strains, etc.
For Double Groin Rupture, another Holding Pad would be fitted where the Protection Pad is shown here.
The Cluthe Automatic Holding Pads are made in over 115 different shapes and sizes, and are selected as the severity and nature of each case may demand.
We determine the true nature and real needs of the case from the answers given to the questions on our Order blank, and then shape frame of truss so hips and spine will be left free from pressure, and select Rupture Pad or Pads of the right size and shape, and "set" or adjust the truss so it will be self-regulating in the way necessary to automatically seal the rupture opening to give proper support, and to hold the rupture properly in place.