Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Part 6

We can usually make up your truss, fit it, and have it ready to send within twenty-four to thirty-six hours after receiving your order.

Every day we fit in this way scores of people we have never seen.

And it's only in about one case out of several hundred that we fail to give perfect fit. While in such cases, usually only some slight adjustment is needed to make the fit perfect-- some simple adjustment which the patient himself can easily make. Our common-sense instructions fully provide for proper adjustment if any is necessary.

Our ability to meet the exact requirements of your case-- our expert skill and care in fitting-- are things no one else can give you-- for no one else has had our forty years of professional experience-- no one else has learned _how_, as we have.

The method we follow (which is exclusively our own), is the only method of fitting that can result in continuous and comfortable holding.

And continuous and comfortable holding, combined with the soothing, strengthening and healing ma.s.sage treatment which the Cluthe Truss automatically gives, is the only thing (save an operation-- which can't always do it)-- that can effect a permanent cure.

_+How Day-After-Day Holding is Given by the Cluthe Automatic Pad+_

[Ill.u.s.tration]

The above ill.u.s.tration 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 also _ma.s.sages_ the ruptured parts. This ma.s.sage 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 which _causes_ rupture-- gradually _strengthens_ the weak ruptured parts, just as exercise strengthens the muscles of the arms.

_+Able to Work While Being Cured+_

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 G.o.dsend.

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 a _life-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 bear _that_ in 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 keep _that_ in mind-- you who now scarcely dare 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.

[Sidenote: 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 overlook _that_-- you who have been putting up with old-fas.h.i.+oned 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 rupture _better_-- makes your work actually have a _healing_ or _curative_ effect.

There is plenty of proof of that.

Men doing _heavy_ work, and doing it every day-- men like farmers, blacksmiths, railway firemen, factory workers, miners, etc.-- are among those cured by this truss; cured while _working_ right 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.

[Sidenote: 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.

_+Don't Let Yourself Be Scared Into Risking An Operation+_

Cluthe Truss Has Done Away with All Need For Operation, Except in Occasional Cases

People _used_ to think that an operation was the only way to cure rupture-- thought they had to be cut open.

Just as people _used_ to know no better than to undergo _bleeding,_ 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 Was.h.i.+ngton'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.

[Sidenote: 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 const.i.tution.

Thousands of ruptured people have died under the surgeon's knife.