Cluthes Advice to the Ruptured | Page 5

way with rupture. It can be cured or made better only by strengthening the weakened muscles, gently exercising them, giving them support which takes the strain off them while helping them do their work until, gradually, they regain their full strength and need no help.
Yet we of the Cluthe Rupture Institute are the only people to-day who take that physiological fact into consideration.
How to apply our knowledge of that physiological fact, how to exercise and thus strengthen the weak ruptured parts while at the same time supporting and holding them in place wasn't the easiest thing in the world to discover.
However, the Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager provides a way. And is the only thing ever invented that can both hold the rupture and give Nature the necessary assistance in the process of strengthening the weak parts.
Just how it assists Nature is explained in the next chapter.

+How to Overcome the Weakness Which Causes Rupture+
A New Way, But Based on a Principle as Old as the Hills-- A Principle Recognized by all Doctors
As everybody knows, you can make most any part of the body strong simply by exercising it.
Exercise is a wonderful thing.
Keep a child cooped up-- give it no place to play-- and it will probably grow up puny and sickly.
While a boy on the farm-- with the big out-of-doors for a playground-- is usually a picture of health.
Or take a blacksmith. He is constantly using or exercising his arms. So you'll find them as hard as nails.
While his legs-- because he doesn't use them so much-- aren't likely to be nearly so well developed.
A man in an office or store usually has soft, flabby, weak muscles.
But let that man take up some form of exercise, like tennis or base ball, and his muscles will soon be strong.
It is a law of Nature that our minds and muscles grow by proper use, building themselves up to meet any demands made on them.
That is why, after any sickness which leaves the body weak, doctors nearly always tell you to take plenty of exercise.
Until recent years, the only way to develop strength was by active exercise; movement of the muscles by their own force, as in walking, chopping wood or playing some game.
But nowadays there is a substitute for exercise.
[Sidenote: Massage Is a Substitute For Exercise]
Called Massage; a sort of artificial exercise; a way to strengthen muscles without using them.
In simple language, massage consists in alternately expanding and contracting the muscles by applying a gentle force externally, instead of moving them by voluntary and internal force.
Now massage-- like ordinary exercise-- is so strengthening that it will overcome almost any kind of weakness.
So invigorating and beneficial that many well-known physicians say the day is coming when it will be an almost universal method of cure for every trouble in any way due to weakness.
At the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York, many cases of weak ankles, weak backs, etc., have been cured by massage.
Now Rupture, as shown in the last chapter, is also a weakness.
But massage, as given at hospitals, can't be used to advantage for rupture.
Too expensive-- requires an expert. And could be given only when you are lying flat on your back in bed; therefore couldn't be given very often; and it would take years for only occasional massaging to overcome rupture.
Moreover, hospital or hand massage could be used only in combination with a truss that would keep the rupture from coming out. A protrusion every day or so, as happens with most trusses, would undo all the beneficial effects of the massage.
But the invention of the Cluthe Truss-- the only truss that can be depended on to prevent protrusion-- makes hand or hospital massage unnecessary; it takes their place.
It massages the weak ruptured parts as well as a skilled hand-massager could, as well as could be done at a hospital. And charges nothing for giving the massage-- there is no expense beyond the price of the truss.
[Sidenote: This Strengthening Massage Given Automatically]
It massages the weak ruptured parts entirely automatically or mechanically. And does it in a wonderfully simple way; the massaging device-- so small it would go in a watch case-- is so simple that you'll wonder when you see it how it can produce such a strengthening effect.
Keeps massaging the weak ruptured parts all day long-- all without a moment's attention from you, all without keeping you from your work, all without in any way interfering with your pleasure.
And, at the same time, holds the rupture constantly and comfortably in place.
Takes all strain off the ruptured parts, rests the weakened muscles while the massage is strengthening them; just as you must rest a strained ankle-- keep your weight off it-- while it is healing.
Keeps you from even feeling a single one of the strains that are apt to do