Cluthes Advice to the Ruptured | Page 8

several million people.
[Sidenote: Our Advantages Over The Drug Store]
And there-- in the course of years-- among the thousands of people who came in person to be attended to at our Institute, we had in our care case after case of every kind and condition of rupture ever known.
And all this time we were also attending by mail to cases of all kinds in all parts of the civilized world.
No druggist-- no truss fitter in any drug store or surgical supply house-- no one else in all America-- ever had such a wonderful opportunity to learn all the peculiarities of rupture.
Our experience has been so complete that in the last five years we haven't come across a single case-- either by mail or among those who came to the Institute-- which presented any peculiarities that we were not already familiar with.
Yet-- because he has never seen a case like it before-- a case that would seem simple to us often completely baffles the best of truss fitters in drug stores, local truss concerns, surgical supply houses, etc.
Now it is only in the largest drug stores, local truss establishments and surgical instrument houses-- perhaps in only five or six places in a city like New York or Chicago-- that a special or "expert" truss fitter of any kind is employed.
So if a comparatively simple case puzzles these "expert" fitters, a man certainly can't expect much satisfaction at the small drug store, where whichever clerk that isn't busy-- at best someone with little or no knowledge at all of rupture-- will undertake to wait on you.
During our long experience, for every person who came to our Institute we have probably attended to ten others by mail.
And we have proved over and over-- year after year-- that we can give relief by mail to the man five or five thousand miles away just as well as to the man who came to our Institute.
[Sidenote: Give Entire Time To Attending Cases By Mail]
So now we have moved our Institute to Bloomfield, N.J.-- only ten miles from New York City-- a quiet suburb where we can give our entire time to attending to cases by mail.
For we have found that the great majority of the victims of rupture can't afford to lay off from work or business long enough to undergo operation-- the only thing besides the Cluthe Truss which can be looked upon as a means of relief; we have found that most ruptured people can't spare the money required for an operation; and that many of them-- largely because they have been wearing, for years, perhaps, trusses which have been letting them get worse all the time-- are so weakened and run down in health that they stand little chance of recovering from the shock of an operation.
These are the people who are most in need of our truss and most in need of our skilled care and attention.
And here in Bloomfield we can do more good, give relief to more people by mail, than we could had we remained in New York.
And here, day after day, we are attending by mail to people in New York City-- only ten miles away-- just as we are to sufferers in Maine, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, California, etc.
[Sidenote: Well-Known Business Men Order By Mail]
Big business men in New York-- bankers, presidents of big corporations, noted lawyers and others-- men perhaps living in the same block with some noted physician or surgeon-- men who could send for their autos and in fifteen to thirty minutes be in any one of New York's best hospitals-- men who can afford the best medical and surgical care in the world-- are among those who have ordered Cluthe Trusses from us here in Bloomfield in exactly the same way-- by mail-- that a man out in Ohio or Oregon would.
Now when men like these-- many of them acting on the advice of famous physicians-- are taking advantage of the care and attention we give by mail in connection with the Cluthe Truss, it is mighty good proof of our ability to attend to any kind of case by mail.
[Sidenote: How We Study Your Case]
The first thing we do, when a man writes for a Cluthe Truss, is to make a careful, scientific study of his case. We must understand your case thoroughly-- know all its peculiarities.
And please bear in mind that your case will receive the personal attention of at least three members-- perhaps there will be a consultation of all five members-- of the Cluthe Rupture Institute.
No order is ever put in the hands of a clerk or helper or other inexperienced person.
In each case we give our complete professional service. Each case is treated individually.
We take into consideration the kind of rupture-- the location of the rupture opening-- the size