The _oculist_ finds out what the _trouble_ is-- and what kind of glasses
are _needed_-- then _prescribes_ that kind of glasses.
And then the _optician fits_ the man according to the _oculist's
prescription_. Just as a _druggist_ fills a _physician's_ prescription.
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 the _needs_ of your case-- then we _prescribe_--
then we _fill_ our prescription by making especially for your case
exactly the kind of truss you need.
A physician never asks _you_ what _kind_ of medicine _you want_--
he _prescribes_ for you the kind which _he_ knows you _need_.
But if you go to a _drug-store_ for a truss, the clerk behind the
counter asks you what _kind_ of truss you _want_!
You must be your _own_ doctor.
[Sidenote: Druggists Know Nothing about Rupture]
Neither the drug clerk nor the druggist knows enough about _rupture_ to
know what kind of _truss_ you _need_.
And, usually, his knowledge of _trusses_ is confined to the difference
in _prices_-- he'd rather sell you a $10 truss than a $3 truss.
His knowledge of _fitting_ is 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 only _half_
as bad as yours, or to a man with a rupture _twice_ as 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 to _pay_, and the
_style_ the customer _wanted_-- _not_ what the customer _needed_.
Thousands of people have been "all crippled up" because their shoes were
too _short_, or too _narrow_, or the _wrong shape_. The old-fashioned
shoe clerk knew his _stock_, but he didn't know enough about the
customer's _feet_ to know when the customer was _properly fitted_.
Just as thousands of people have trouble with their glasses because they
were fitted by an _optician_-- "over the counter,"-- instead of having
an _oculist prescribe_ for 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 immense _harm_ instead of
good-- trusses which cause the rupture to grow constantly worse.
Even if there is any druggist in the country who _does_ happen 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 usually cheaply
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.
[Sidenote: 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.
[Sidenote: 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 a _side-line_ in the average drug-store. Just as
_cigars_ are, or "_soft drinks_."
A druggist knows all about _drugs_.
He has made _them_ his special _study_.
But he _doesn't_ know much about _rupture_-- doesn't pretend to-- and
can't be expected to. Because he _hasn't_ made a _study_ of it.
It took _us_, here at the Cluthe Rupture Institute, over _forty years_
to learn all that we _now_ know about Rupture.
_Forty years_ of day-after-day _concentration_ on the _study_ and
_treatment_ of Rupture.
And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which
no one _else_ has _ever learned_-- we have gained knowledge which is
exclusively our _own_.
And it took many years of scientific study and experiment to perfect the
_Cluthe Truss_, and to design the hundreds of different _kinds_,
_sizes_, and _shapes_ of 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 a _drug-store_, or to a mere _dealer_
in trusses or _manufacturer_ of them.
And the following chapters will show that even more conclusively.
[Illustration:
Showing a few of the different sizes and shapes
in which the Cluthe Holding Pads are made.]
_+Physicians Advise Cluthe Truss Instead of Operation+_
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.
_+Ruptured People Swindled Out of Thousands of Dollars+_
Look Out for the Deceitful "Don't-Wear-a-Truss" Arguments
and the Tricky "Not-a-Truss" Claims
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.
[Sidenote: 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.
[Sidenote: 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 to _rub_ the stuff _in_ thoroughly. But the stimulation lasts only a
few minutes; and is due to the _rubbing_ and 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 of
_massage_. 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 the
_massage_ all 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 of
_magical_ ointment 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.
[Sidenote: How to Save Yourself from Being Humbugged]
But it is easy 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 on
_Sixty Days' Trial_ and under the protection of a _Money-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
stand _that_ test doesn't need to resort to misleading claims or
subterfuge or trickery of any kind.
And _that_-- 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.
_+Showing How the Cluthe Truss is Held in Place
Without Leg-Straps or Other "Harness"+_
[Illustration]
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.
_+What We Have Done For 290,000 Others+_
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.
[Sidenote: 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.
_+Costs More to Do Without It Than To Get It+_
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.
[Sidenote: 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 let his
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.
[Sidenote: 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 be _our_ loss and not yours if this truss doesn't at least make
you a whole lot better. But _your_ loss, not ours, if you neglect to
_try_ it.
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.
[Sidenote: 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 Truss costs so 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 good _shoes_, 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.
[Sidenote: 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
cause _strangulation_ of 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.
[Sidenote: 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 to _cure_ weak 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, _does_ cure 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-Ray View of Cluthe Truss+_
Note that there is no Belt, Elastics or Spring around the Waist,
and no Leg-Straps
[Illustration]
This Truss Can be Worn in the Bath, or when Swimming--
All Parts Are Water-Proof
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.
_+The Special Advice You Get in Connection with the Cluthe Truss+_
In every case, we give our complete _Professional Services_.
[Sidenote: Like Being Under a Physician's Care]
Just as the physician gives thorough study and attention in connection
with the medicine he prescribes.
Our Professional Service gives you knowledge of your trouble, based on
Nature's laws, mechanical laws and common sense, which we have learned
during our forty years of day-after-day experience.
As a part of our Professional Services, we give Special Instructions--
confidential advice-- based on the individual needs of each case.
This confidential advice has to do with your general health, the length
of time you have been ruptured, and other conditions having a direct
bearing on your rupture.
All this costs you nothing extra. And our Special Instructions and
Advice are no trouble whatever to carry out.
_+Showing How the Cluthe Truss Can't Rub, Hug, Pinch, Squeeze,
Chafe, Bind or Irritate+_
[Illustration]
Cross Section View, showing how the frame of the Cluthe Truss doesn't
press against the body at any point. The Cluthe Truss comes in contact
with the body only at the rupture opening (where the Holding Pads
support the rupture)-- and at the rear, where the Suction Pads rest
against the muscles of the rump.
While the frame doesn't press against the body, it fits so closely
around the body that the truss won't "show" in any way under the
clothes-- no one can tell you have a truss on. Won't even "bulge" a
woman's corset-- won't interfere with the corset. Many acrobats wear
this truss under their tights when performing, yet no one can see any
sign of it.
_+Showing the Simplicity of the Automatic-Acting Rupture Pads
and of the Massaging Device+_
[Illustration]
Illustration at left shows Holding Pad in normal position.
When you cough or strain, your abdomen naturally expands, pushing upper
end of pad (where finger points in illustration at right) outward, thus
forcing the lower part of pad (where arrow points) in against rupture
opening. Because of this automatic action of the Holding Pad, your
rupture can never come out.
[Illustration]
The simple mechanism shown on the inside of this pad-- a device so small
it would almost go in a watch case-- is what makes the Cluthe Holding or
Rupture Pad automatic in its action (self-adjusting, self-regulating).
And at the same time, this little device causes the Holding or Rupture
Pad to give the strengthening _massage_ to the weak ruptured parts-- all
_automatically_ or _mechanically_, like the running of a watch. But--
unlike a watch-- this massaging device doesn't need to be wound up--
never needs any attention whatever; and also unlike a watch, so strong
and simple that it can never get out of order-- never fail to work
properly.
_+Forms and Conditions of Rupture+_
The illustrations on following pages show various stages of the four
common varieties of abdominal Rupture.
Groin Rupture (Inguinal) is the most common form.
Scrotal Rupture (Inguinal) is simply a worse stage of Groin Rupture. The
intestines have descended into the scrotum.
Navel Rupture (Umbilical) is that form in which the opening occurs at or
near the navel.
Thigh Rupture (Femoral) is that form of rupture which appears at the
upper part of the thigh.
Any of these forms of rupture may appear on the right or left side or on
both.
Our experience has taught us that out of one hundred cases of rupture
about eighty-six are Groin or Scrotal Rupture. Thirteen out of each
hundred are about evenly divided between Thigh and Navel Rupture. And
the remaining one may be one of several uncommon forms not mentioned
here because they are usually the result of accident.
About half of the cases of rupture occur in childhood. But there are
many cases which occur between the ages of 30 and 40. And it is a well
known fact that two-fifths of such cases become Scrotal because of
neglect, or because a truss is worn that does not keep the rupture from
coming down.
All ruptures at the start are usually very mild in form. But if the
ruptured parts are not held in place, the sac will gradually grow larger
because of the failure to seal the originally small opening through
which the intestines at first escape.
[Sidenote: Warn Those Recently Ruptured]
This is something about which you who have been ruptured any length of
time, you who know how rupture gets worse if not properly taken care of,
should warn any one you may know who has only recently been ruptured.
You can save them years of suffering by telling them about the Cluthe
Truss.
For it so often happens-- due to the general ignorance about rupture--
that newly ruptured people don't know their danger until too late.
The rupture often gives so little trouble at first that they think it
nothing to worry about. Or perhaps-- also due to ignorance-- they are
ashamed to ask anyone's advice. So they go to a drug-store and get a
worthless makeshift; and, of course, wearing the cheap contraptions
sold by drug-stores, they soon find themselves in a serious state.
There are six conditions of rupture.
When the rupture can be pressed back into the abdomen by the ordinary
manipulation of the fingers, it is a Reducible Rupture. This is the
first condition, but without a proper truss it soon grows worse.
When only a part of the contents of the lump or rupture sac can be
pressed back into the opening, it is known as a Partly Reducible
Rupture. This condition is generally the result of neglect of the
Reducible Rupture or the use of an improper truss.
When at times the contents of the lump or sac cannot be pressed back
into the body with the hands, it is known as a Temporarily Irreducible
Rupture. This temporarily irreducible condition can often be cured and
always prevented from growing worse if the proper truss is fitted and
worn.
The foregoing condition sometimes becomes so bad that it is known as
Permanently Irreducible. But even then it can usually be controlled--
prevented from growing worse-- if the right kind of truss is worn.
The condition bordering on strangulation is known as Incarcerated
Rupture. The only help for a person in this condition is an immediate
operation.
The worst condition of rupture is the strangulated form. This is a
condition where mortification has already set in. If an operation is not
immediately resorted to, the sufferer will die.
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[Illustration: Fig. 1]
[Illustration: Fig. 2]
[Illustration: Fig. 3]
[Illustration: Fig. 4]
[Illustration: Fig. 5]
[Illustration: Fig. 6]
These illustrations show Groin Rupture as it first appears, and how it
gradually grows worse and descends into the privates (both male and
female) when neglected or not properly protected, as when a worthless
truss or other appliance is worn which frequently or occasionally lets
the rupture come out.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 show the first three stages of Groin Rupture.
Figure 4 shows Groin Rupture descended only to the privates.
Figures 5 and 6 show the rupture _after_ it has descended _into_ the
privates.
[Illustration: Fig. 7]
[Illustration: Fig. 8]
[Illustration: Fig. 9]
[Illustration: Fig. 10]
[Illustration: Fig. 11 (At Navel)]
[Illustration: Fig. 12 (At Navel)]
Figures 7, 8, and 9 show advanced stages of Scrotal or Groin Rupture
(getting worse all the time because not properly protected, because not
kept from coming out) after it has descended into privates. (The
different stages are the same in Females as in Males.)
Figure 10 shows Thigh or Femoral Rupture, which comes out on the upper
part of thigh, just below the crease or depression between abdomen and
thigh. Femoral Rupture never appears higher up-- never appears in groin,
and never descends into privates.
Figures 11 and 12 show two stages of Navel Rupture. (For Cluthe Navel
Truss, see page 64.)
We make the Cluthe Truss with special Holding Pads that meet the
requirements of every one of the foregoing conditions of Rupture, save
Incarcerated and Strangulated. With the exception of these two forms we
guarantee that the perfect truss with Automatic Massage Treatment will
constantly hold any rupture in place.
Navel or Umbilical Rupture (which appears at or near the navel) demands
immediate treatment.
[Sidenote: Navel (Umbilical) Rupture]
Neglect or Mal-Treatment is liable speedily to treble the size of the
rupture.
We make a special Cluthe Navel Truss which has never in any case failed
to improve the condition from the moment it was applied.
Our Navel Truss does not bind the abdomen-- allows perfect freedom-- is
light, clean and comfortable even in the hottest weather.
It is the only successful holder for Navel Rupture-- the only one that
supports the overhanging weight in front without the use of torturing
elastic fabrics.
Cases of Navel Rupture demand special care, for hardly any two are
alike. So we cannot prescribe for Navel Rupture until we know your
condition.
Simply write us stating whether the rupture can be fully reduced. If it
can't, give size of part that cannot be reduced.
If none of the forms of Navel Rupture shown on the order blank seems
to be about the size of your rupture, and in the same location, please
mark on the picture as nearly as you can the size and location of your
rupture.
On receipt of such report, we shall advise you as to the appliance
needed, and its price.
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[Sidenote: After Operations]
For recurrence of Rupture after an operation, we make the Cluthe Truss
with special frames and pads. For the requirements in each case are
usually different.
Simply fill out the order blank, and we will tell you just what you
need, and the price.
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