Cluthes Advice to the Ruptured | Page 3

instrument houses-- in those days same as
now-- make or sell trusses.
And Chas. Cluthe soon saw the utter worthlessness of all the trusses
then in existence.
[Sidenote: He Saw The Need For Something Better]
He saw what a multitude of people were ruptured. Saw the great need
for something better than ordinary trusses or appliances, something
better than operation.
He decided that by supplying that need he could be far more useful than
by manufacturing surgical instruments.
And from that day to this-- now over forty-two years-- the scientific
study and relief of rupture have been the one aim of his life.
That led, later on, to the founding of the Cluthe Rupture Institute.
And there are now five of us-- father and four sons. For as we sons
grew up, we were trained in our father's work in the field of rupture;
and have become Members of the Institute.
We four sons have all had the benefit of our father's forty years of
experience. And the youngest of us has now had seventeen years of
individual experience.
And here, day-after-day, we have dealt with rupture in all its forms and
stages.
Altogether, at this writing, we have treated, by mail and in person, over
290,000 cases.
All kinds, from infants in their mothers' arms to men and women over
sixty and seventy. Among them some of the worst cases on record.
We have made impartial, fair-and-square tests of every known method
of treatment.

We have had experience with all kinds of medical applications, and all
kinds of mechanical appliances.
We have fitted belt and spring trusses in all their variations. We long
ago found just why they all fail to hold or relieve rupture-- just why
they usually cause the wearer untold torture.
We have had the co-operation of some of this country's most noted
physicians and surgeons.
We have studied the effects and watched the results in hundreds of
operations.
We have found just why operations are frequently fatal. Why they are
nearly always dangerous. And why the rupture frequently breaks out
anew, after the operation apparently heals.
Every remedial means in existence for the relief of rupture has been
tried.
[Sidenote: The Result Of Our Study]
And the result of all this study and experimenting was the invention of
the famous Cluthe Truss and Automatic Massager.
Something so vastly different from everything else for rupture that it
has received eighteen separate patents.
Something far more than just a truss; something far more than merely a
device for holding the rupture in place.
Yet the simplest truss ever invented.
* * * * *
The Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss is so utterly unlike anything
else for rupture-- so much more than just a truss-- that sometimes we
feel we should have adopted some other name.

For the country is full of worthless trusses; and so many people have
tried truss after truss without being in any way benefited that they think
that nothing called a truss can do any good. Although when people get
an inferior article of some other kind-- like clothing or shoes-- they
don't condemn everything similar.
This fear of anything called a truss has kept lots of people from
answering our advertisements; lots of people, because of disappointing
experience with other trusses, won't even take the trouble to investigate;
give themselves no chance to find out about the merits of the Cluthe
Truss.
We would like to have these people believe in us and have them believe
in our truss; but, by being so suspicious, they lose far more than we;
they lose the chance to get better, and probably the chance to get well.
We sometimes speak of the Cluthe Truss as the Cluthe Automatic
Massager; both names are necessary if we would do our truss full
justice.
But we have decided never to give up the word truss; in spite of the fact
that its use makes it harder to get people to believe our advertisements.
We don't want to fly under false colors.
We don't want to do any of the things done by those who have
worthless trusses to sell; those who have cheap contraptions which they
call "appliances," "methods," etc., in order to deceive ruptured people.
If we were willing to call the Cluthe Truss by some other name, we
would probably disarm much of the suspicion many people have
against the word truss.
But we don't want to adopt any subterfuges. And there are now so
many people wearing Cluthe Automatic Massaging Trusses, or who
have worn them until cured, that simply by one man recommending the
Cluthe Truss to another the prejudice against the word truss is bound to
be overcome in time.

+Rupture Always Brought On By Weakness+
The word Rupture is wrong; a relic of the days