Part 4

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.

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.

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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 when no one understood the real nature of this affliction.

In its true definition, the word means a break or tear. And that is how this ailment got the name Rupture-- people used to think the muscles had broken or torn in two.

But we have examined hundreds of ruptures under the searching X-rays.

And we long ago found that rupture is not a break or tear; something all physicians and surgeons now concede.

The muscles at some point have simply lost their strength-- lost their elasticity-- like a piece of old rubber which has lost its "stretch."

Sometimes this weakening is due to general poor health; sometimes to lack of exercise; and sometimes the weakness is inherited.

Now the bowels are always pushing or pressing more or less against the abdominal wall-- any one, whether ruptured or not, can plainly feel that pressure when coughing or sneezing; while lifting or other exertion greatly increases the pressure or strain.

When in a healthy or sound condition, the abdominal wall is elastic; and when the bowels push against it, the muscles which form it simply stretch until the strain on them is over.

Just as when you pull at your cheek, the flesh falls back in position the instant you let go.