This, when offered by mail, as it is in almost every magazine that
accepts medical advertisements, is also a glaring fraud upon a most
helpless class of people. While it is true that a well fitted truss
will retain and often cure a rupture, yet the quacks who advertise the
rupture cure propose to cure you by mail, then by application of a
wonderful oil which they sell at ten dollars per bottle, they propose
to close up the opening through which the rupture descends and effect
a permanent cure. A few years back the surgical treatment of rupture
was not always a success, hence people so afflicted had reason to
avoid operations.
Today the cure of rupture is not attended by any danger. Surgery has
made many advances in the past few years. People who are ruptured
should avoid any other means of cure than the operations.
There are not less than twenty-five advertising specialists in Chicago
who profess to cure rupture without operation.
They only succeed in separating you from your money. My advice is not
to go near them, lest you regret it.