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had cases here at the Institute where, for lack of activity, the
muscles around the rupture opening had withered almost completely
away. And usually, in addition to lack of use, the deadening,
benumbing pressure from a wrong truss was partly responsible for that
withered or deadened condition of the muscles.
We can do nothing in cases like that. Neither can an operation or
anything else. It is entirely too late.
Like a man whose arm has been broken.
While carried in a sling or plaster cast, the arm tends to lose its
strength-- loses it through lack of use.
And if, after the bone has knit, the arm is still carried in a sling, never
used, its muscles would soon atrophy or become dead, weaken and
waste away until useless.
A doctor would insist that the arm be used or exercised as soon as the
bone had knit, thus gradually restoring it to strength.
Same 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