Cluthes Advice to the Ruptured | Page 9

of the protrusion, the length of time ruptured, the cause of the rupture, whether or not an operation has been performed, etc., etc.
You will find, on our information blank (one is enclosed with this book, or see duplicate questions on page 73) some simple, easily-answered questions concerning these points.
And your answers to these questions, if your answers are correct, furnish us all the guidance we need as to the special requirements of your case. Just as a physician in writing a prescription is guided by the answers to his simple questions.
That is how we determine the shape and size of the Automatic Holding Pad (in case of Double Rupture, each rupture is individually treated, usually a different kind of pad for each side, for both sides are seldom the same).
And that is how we determine the adjustment of the pads and all parts, the amount of support needed and the regulation of the holding pads to give the support, etc., etc.
Then, after deciding all these points, we make for you a special Cluthe Truss-- one exactly adapted to your individual case-- every part of it exactly what your condition requires. (Compare that with the way drug stores and local truss dealers try to fit you with a ready-made "stock" truss.)
We next take this specially made truss to our Gallery of Statues-- which consists of life-size and life-like models or dummy figures.
[Sidenote: Our Life-Like Models]
And here, no matter what your size or build, we have a dummy model corresponding to your living self in shape-- a form your clothes would fit just as they fit on you.
When we see the measurements you give when ordering (they are all provided for in a simple way on our Information or Question blank) we know at once which one of our many models or forms to use.
And on this form-- duplicating your size and build-- we fit your truss, as soon as it is made, just as if you yourself were right here in front of us.
We can usually make up your truss, fit it, and have it ready to send within twenty-four to thirty-six hours after receiving your order.
Every day we fit in this way scores of people we have never seen.
And it's only in about one case out of several hundred that we fail to give perfect fit. While in such cases, usually only some slight adjustment is needed to make the fit perfect-- some simple adjustment which the patient himself can easily make. Our common-sense instructions fully provide for proper adjustment if any is necessary.
Our ability to meet the exact requirements of your case-- our expert skill and care in fitting-- are things no one else can give you-- for no one else has had our forty years of professional experience-- no one else has learned how, as we have.
The method we follow (which is exclusively our own), is the only method of fitting that can result in continuous and comfortable holding.
And continuous and comfortable holding, combined with the soothing, strengthening and healing massage treatment which the Cluthe Truss automatically gives, is the only thing (save an operation-- which can't always do it)-- that can effect a permanent cure.

+How Day-After-Day Holding is Given by the Cluthe Automatic Pad+
[Illustration]
The above illustration represents the side view of the lower abdomen of a person of medium size. C, A and E is the natural line of the abdomen. D, B and F is the line when the abdomen is inflated by coughing, sneezing, or any exertion or strain. The black disc is the pad. When the wearer coughs or strains, pad end A is forced to position B, while the lower or retaining end of pad E is instantly forced inward to position F, thereby completely checking the descent of the rupture and effectively locking it in. Thus rupture is at all times retained with the least possible pressure of pad under normal conditions, yet the extra pressure needed is instantly and automatically given when any exertion or strain demands it.
This automatic action of the Holding Pad also massages the ruptured parts. This massage has a soothing, healing effect-- like gently rubbing your forehead when you have a headache-- or like rubbing a bruised spot-- and, gradually overcomes the weakness which causes rupture-- gradually strengthens the weak ruptured parts, just as exercise strengthens the muscles of the arms.

+Able to Work While Being Cured+
For men with a living to make, work to do, business to attend to, families to provide for, the Cluthe Truss is nothing less than a godsend.
And it means just as much to men who want to take part in athletic games, men who want active outdoor exercise.
Some, in their letters to us, have called it a life-saver.
For the Cluthe Truss rids work and exercise of every one of their dangers; rids