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Advice to the Ruptured, by Chas. Cluthe & Sons

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Title: Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
Author: Chas. Cluthe & Sons
Release Date: November 27, 2006 [EBook #19933]
Language: English
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[Illustration:
+The Five Members of the Cluthe Rupture Institute+
CHAS. CLUTHE Founder of the Cluthe Rupture Institute 41 Years' Experience
CHAS. CLUTHE, Jr. 23 Years' Experience in the Institute
FREDK. WM. CLUTHE 21 Years' Experience in the Institute
HERMAN CLUTHE 19 Years' Experience in the Institute
ALFRED CLUTHE 17 Years' Experience in the Institute ]

CLUTHE'S ADVICE TO THE RUPTURED
BY
Chas. Cluthe & Sons
CLUTHE RUPTURE INSTITUTE
Bloomfield, New Jersey (A Suburb of New York City)
COPYRIGHT 1912 BY CHAS. CLUTHE & SONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page One of the World's Most Terrible Burdens 5 Our Forty Years of Experience 9 Rupture Always Brought On by Weakness 12 How to Overcome the Weakness Which Causes Rupture 16 How Your Rupture is Kept from Coming Out 20 The Care and Attention We Give You 23 Able to Work While Being Cured 30 Don't Let Yourself be Scared into Risking an Operation 32 Why Ordinary Trusses Do More Harm Than Good 34 Law Should Stop the Sale of Drug-Store Trusses 38 Physicians Advise Cluthe Truss Instead of Operation 44 Ruptured People Swindled Out of Thousands of Dollars 46 What We Have Done for Over 290,000 Others 50 Costs More to Do Without it Than to Get it 52 The Special Advice You Get in Connection with the Cluthe Truss 57 Forms and Conditions of Rupture 60 Let Us Send You a Cluthe Truss on 60 Days' Trial 65 See How Little it Costs to Get Relief 68 Don't Let Yourself Keep on Getting Worse 70

+One of the World's Most Terrible Burdens+
Why So Few People Know of Anything That Will Do Any Good
In a good many ways, rupture is one of the world's most terrible burdens.
It is almost as common as poor eyesight.
And the cause of far more trouble, far greater suffering and worry.
For, while it's easy enough to get glasses that will improve the sight, only a small proportion of the vast host of sufferers have ever been fortunate enough to find anything that would even keep rupture from growing worse.
And about all a doctor can do is to suggest an operation.
Though there are plenty of good physicians, plenty who can conquer other ailments, there are mighty few who can do anything whatever for rupture.
But that is no fault of the physicians.
[Sidenote: Medical Treatment is Powerless]
This affliction, like trouble with the eyes or teeth, falls entirely outside the physician's province; for medicines, the physician's chief means of cure, are utterly powerless either to relieve or overcome it.
And, unfortunately, scarcely one sufferer in a hundred knows of anyone else to turn to, with the exception of the surgeon, after finding that physicians can give no relief.
For the proper treatment of rupture has received little attention as a specialized profession.
Scientific treatment of the eyes and of the teeth have both become special professions; you'll find good oculists and good dentists in nearly every town.
But, in all America, the Members of the Cluthe Rupture Institute are probably the only men who have honestly and conscientiously taken up the scientific study and treatment of rupture as their exclusive profession.
There have always been plenty of places where a ruptured man could go for a truss; surgical supply houses, truss manufacturers, truss dealers, drug-stores, etc. But at these places, though their intentions are good, the men who undertake to fit you have made no special study of rupture, and therefore can do little or nothing for you.
And the trusses they give you, because not based on a scientific study of rupture, don't make proper provision for your requirements.
Then many sufferers, in their search for relief, have been handicapped by wrong ideas about rupture.
[Sidenote: Many Wrong Ideas About Rupture]
There has grown up a general impression that rupture is something to be ashamed of.
But a badly mistaken impression.
For the plain fact is that rupture, if you don't let it go till complications set in, merely indicates a weakness of certain muscles, and is no more to be ashamed of than a weak stomach or deafness, or poor eye-sight.
Such wrong ideas-- and the false modesty they have bred-- have made rupture a tabooed subject; one to be talked about in whispers, one to be discussed