Part 11

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+

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 them of every one of their injurious effects on rupture.

You who read this-- by letting us send you a Cluthe Truss on sixty days' trial-- can easily prove all that; just as thousands of others have proved it.

With this truss on there isn't the slightest risk of having your rupture forced out by sudden strains or movements.

Just bear that in mind-- you who have been compelled, because your truss has been doing no good, to drop everything perhaps two or three times a day or more and put your rupture back.

This truss puts an end to all danger of further weakening yourself while working-- puts an end to all danger of making your rupture worse.

Just keep that in mind-- you who now scarcely dare do a thing-- scarcely even cough or laugh, for fear of bad effects on your rupture-- for fear your truss will yield and let the rupture escape.

And with a Cluthe Truss on, work, exercise or outdoor sports will never cause any discomfort.

Don't overlook that-- you who have been putting up with old-fashioned trusses or "appliances" with their belts, bands, elastics, leg-straps and other torturing harness-- trusses which hurt so much every time you move that they almost drive you frantic.

Instead of letting work injure you in any way, a Cluthe Truss (as previously explained) makes the work you do and the exercise you take actually help make your rupture better-- makes your work actually have a healing or curative effect.

There is plenty of proof of that.

Men doing heavy work, and doing it every day-- men like farmers, blacksmiths, railway firemen, factory workers, miners, etc.-- are among those cured by this truss; cured while working right along, cured while earning good incomes.

Also men taking more or less violent exercise, like base-ball players, tennis players, horse-back and bicycle riders, etc.

Some of them, while working, remember, cured in less than three months.

A lot of them cured in from four to twelve months; among them men who had been ruptured as long as fifteen to thirty years.

And took only a little while longer for some who had been ruptured as long as fifty years to be cured.

You will find, at the back of this book, many letters in proof of this.

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We have seen the Cluthe Truss do so much good for so many other people that we feel sure it can do wonders for you.

So sure it will help you, just as it did them that-- as explained in a later chapter-- we are willing to let you test it on sixty days' trial, to prove just how much it can benefit you.

+Don't Let Yourself Be Scared Into Risking An Operation+