Cluthe Rupture Institute

“ Nothing but the most worthless kind of a truss masquerading under a misleading name.
Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment—tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances.
But that is nothing more nor less than the rankest kind of fraud.
It is folly to suppose any salve, liniment or medicine can possibly cure rupture. Might as well expect them to cure a broken bone. Though they can probably do as much good as the worthless "appliances" they come with. ”

“ So you see the absurdity of trying to get a comfortably fitting truss at a drug-store, or of expecting to get one that will do much good.
Might as well expect all men to be properly fitted in a shoe store which carries only one size and shape of shoe. Or in a hat store which carries only one size of hat. Might as well expect both near-sighted and far-sighted men to see better if both wore the same kind of glasses. And might as well expect common window-glass to improve the eye-sight as to expect common drug-store trusses to do any good. ”

“ While I was always skeptical as to a permanent cure of rupture by means of a truss the fact remains that after following your advice and instruction, I have been going about without a truss, doing all kinds of work same as I did prior to becoming ruptured. I cheerfully recommend your truss to one and all afflicted with rupture. Only the patient himself knows from experience how he has to suffer. ”

“ 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. ”

“ There is just as much difference in different men's ruptures as in the size and shape of their feet or heads.
Just as much variation in rupture as in failing eyesight. And everybody knows that one man may need very powerful glasses, while another needs glasses which magnify only slightly; one may need a double lens, while another needs only a single lens; one may need convex lenses, while another needs concave. ”

“ You can save them years of suffering by telling them about the Cluthe Truss.
For it so often happens—due to the general ignorance about rupture—that newly ruptured people don't know their danger until too late. The rupture often gives so little trouble at first that they think it nothing to worry about. Or perhaps—also due to ignorance—they are ashamed to ask anyone's advice. So they go to a drug-store and get a worthless makeshift; and, of course, wearing the cheap contraptions sold by drug-stores, they soon find themselves in a serious state. ”

“ 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.
31 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. ”

“ As with all the great discoveries which have done so much for suffering mankind, there were many weary years of disappointment before we finally perfected the simple mechanical treatment which has since brought complete recovery to thousands. ”

“ Some try to work on your sympathies by telling you they were themselves formerly ruptured—that they got their knowledge of rupture by studying their own cases—that they made a special "appliance" for themselves. ”

“ Each Man Requires Something Different
Your rupture, when out, may be the size of a hen's egg; your neighbor may have a protrusion almost as big as his head; and a lot of other men with protrusions ranging all the way from one extreme to the other. To say nothing of big differences in other ways besides size.
Each of you should have a size and shape of holding pad especially adapted to the needs of your case—each should have a truss put together especially for you. Else there can be no such thing as continuous, comfortable holding of the rupture. ”

“ Without a Cluthe Truss, your rupture is a constant worry. For a man has to be more optimistic than most ruptured people if he can look into the Future without dread when he knows his rupture isn't getting any better. ”

“ Rupture has kept lots of business and professional men down—
By robbing them of part of their efficiency, it has robbed them of the chance to get farther along; robbed them of money they might have made. For no man can be at his best in any capacity if his rupture is bothering him—the drain on the strength is too great.
It has interfered with the pleasures of thousands. ”

“ Even a common cold, about the simplest of all human ailments, can't always be cured, can't always be so much as relieved or checked; that is why a cold, in spite of everything that can be done, so often develops into pneumonia, bronchial trouble, etc.
But we do stand back of the Cluthe Truss with an absolute guarantee that it will keep the rupture from coming out, enable you to work without danger, and result in improvement. Surely no man can expect a stronger guarantee, especially after what many have gone through with other trusses. ”

“ Now it is only in the largest drug stores, local truss establishments and surgical instrument houses—perhaps in only five or six places in a city like New York or Chicago—that a special or "expert" truss fitter of any kind is employed.
So if a comparatively simple case puzzles these "expert" fitters, a man certainly can't expect much satisfaction at the small drug store, where whichever clerk that isn't busy—at best someone with little or no knowledge at all of rupture—will undertake to wait on you. ”

“ Counting all the thousands of people who have placed themselves in our care, our records show that the cases in which a trial of the Cluthe Truss failed to prove beneficial have averaged only one out of each two hundred.
A really remarkable record. For among the people who have tried the Cluthe Truss, among those cured by it, are hundreds who had been ruptured over 50 years. Note letters in back of book and the 5,000 names you'll find in "Your Neighbor's Word."
The law of averages always holds good; it is one of the most certain things in the world. ”

“ For if your rupture never keeps you from putting in a full day—if you never find it a handicap—if it never keeps you at home in bed when you should be earning money—then you are far more fortunate than most ruptured people who don't wear Cluthe Trusses.
And as long as you try to get along with worthless makeshifts, you have to keep buying truss after truss, paying out dollar after dollar for new trusses to take the place of those which don't last and those which don't do any good. ”

“ The Cluthe Automatic Holding Pads—the pads which hold the rupture in place—are free acting—work on a ball-bearing, universal joint. Thus they are wonderfully sensitive to the slightest movement, instantly respond to each movement.
No other truss in the world has this self-adjusting feature—no 21 other can hold a bad rupture, no other can keep the rupture from getting worse.
Just as no other can overcome the weakness which causes rupture—no other can give the strengthening massage which the Cluthe Truss gives—no other can make the rupture better. ”

“ Big business men in New York—bankers, presidents of big corporations, noted lawyers and others—men perhaps living in the same block with some noted physician or surgeon—men who could send for their autos and in fifteen to thirty minutes be in any one of New York's best hospitals—men who can afford the best medical and surgical care in the world—are among those who have ordered Cluthe Trusses from us here in Bloomfield in exactly the same way—by mail—that a man out in Ohio or Oregon would. ”

“ Any system of treatment (except operation) which claims to relieve or cure rupture without the use of a truss is simply a fraud.
Why You Need a Truss
The weak muscles at the rupture opening can't possibly get strong without the aid of a truss that will do what the muscles themselves are too weak to do; a truss that will hold the bowels in place.
But trusses which will do that even half the time are mighty scarce.
Thousands of sufferers have tried truss after truss in hopes they would finally get one that would do it; and to this day haven't found such a truss. ”

“ 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. ”

“ But a doctor or surgeon can't set his own arm. And no one can make a scientific study of his own rupture any more than he can perform an operation on himself.
And some call themselves Rupture or Hernia "Specialists"—but never specialized in anything except swindling ruptured people.
Some of them make offers like "Free to the Ruptured"—so worded as to make a man think it means free cure. But all they send you free is a cheap little folder or circular. People who write to them soon learn to know better than to expect something for nothing.
Don't be Fooled by "Appliances," "Methods," etc. ”

“ We have 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ And an optician is just as likely as not to fit a near-sighted man with far-sighted glasses.
A Truss Fitter Should Know as Much About Rupture as an Oculist About the Eyes
But if the man with poor eyesight goes to an oculist—
The oculist finds out what the trouble is—and what kind of glasses are needed—then prescribes that kind of glasses.
And then the optician fits the man according to the oculist's prescription. Just as a druggist fills a physician's prescription. ”

“ As a first essential, proper artificial support must be applied at the point of rupture.
Comfortable mechanical support that can be depended upon to hold the bowels always in place.
Just as a broken bone must be held in place, while healing, by a bandage or plaster cast.
Dr. Birkett, of the famous Guy Hospital of London, and one of the world's most eminent medical and surgical authorities, says this:
What Dr. Birkett Says
"The expediency of judiciously pursuing the mechanical treatment of every variety of hernia (rupture) cannot be too strongly urged upon the laity by the profession. ”

“ So once you get a Cluthe Truss, you'll probably never have to pay out another dollar on account of your rupture.
The Cluthe Truss costs so little—only $9 to $14—that every body not a pauper can easily afford it. Costs so little—when you consider the good it does—that no one can afford to go without it.
You can get lots of trusses that cost less and some that cost even more—but one Cluthe Truss is worth a dozen of them.
54 Every thrifty man knows that good shoes, for instance, are more economical than cheap ones; for the cheap shoes soon go to pieces, soon get shabby ”

“ From Coming Out And How the Cluthe Truss is Held in Position
by Suction—No Belt, Leg-straps or Springs
Around the Body
The Cluthe Truss is the only kind in existence which applies the support at the proper angle—upwards against the rupture opening; thus counteracting the internal downward pressure of the abdominal organs, the natural tendency of the bowels to push out.
And, unlike all others, it is self-adjusting, self-regulating. Automatically adjusts itself with every one of your movements when you in any way exert your strength. ”

“ However, thousands of physicians all over the country are already familiar with the facts—thousands have seen the folly of expecting ordinary trusses to do any good—thousands now know that getting a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss and our professional care and attention in connection with it, is a vastly different thing than going to a drug-store for a truss. ”

“ It is nothing like the tricky, hoodwinking guarantees which so many other concerns give. Beware of a so-called guarantee which merely reads "This truss fully guaranteed." A guarantee—as any lawyer will tell you—isn't worth the paper it's printed on unless it guarantees something specific, such as holding. ”

“ That is why rupture has heretofore been such a terrible handicap.
It has ruined the health of hundreds of thousands, simply because they couldn't find anything that would do any good. The Misery It Has Caused Kept them from getting much enjoyment out of life, sapped their strength and vitality, left them more or less helpless, robbed them of the ability to provide for themselves and families. ”

“ Ruptured people seriously risk their health when they trust their cases to any one who hasn't made a thorough, specialized study of rupture. That is almost as dangerous as having a prescription filled by an inexperienced clerk, instead of by a registered pharmacist. For a wrong truss can cause immense harm. ”

“ I feel as strong as I ever did before I was ruptured. I work hard every day and have never had any bad effects.
Cured by Cluthe Truss While Lifting Rails and Ties in the Course of Work
I have often been without my Cluthe Truss, and rupture has never come down even without the truss. Before getting the Cluthe Truss I had tried many others, but none of them held my rupture continuously, to say nothing of the discomfort caused and chafing by those leg-straps and springs. By reason of my work as section foreman I am frequently required to do heavy lifting, such as railroad rails and ties. ”

“ Every day that you remain at the mercy of a truss which either occasionally or frequently lets your rupture come out is simply a day of danger.
You can gain nothing whatever by waiting—by trying to get along without a Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss. ”

“ But, in all America, the Members of the Cluthe Rupture Institute are probably the only men who have honestly and conscientiously taken up the scientific study and treatment of rupture as their exclusive profession.
There have always been plenty of places where a ruptured man could go for a truss; surgical supply houses, truss manufacturers, truss dealers, drug-stores, etc. But at these places, though their intentions are good, the men who undertake to fit you have made no special study of rupture, and therefore can do little or nothing for you. ”

“ So now we have moved our Institute to Bloomfield, N.J.—only ten miles from New York City—a quiet suburb where we can give our entire time to attending to cases by mail.
For we have found that the great majority of the victims of rupture can't afford to lay off from work or business long enough to undergo operation—the only thing besides the Cluthe Truss which can be looked upon as a means of relief; we have found that most ruptured people can't spare the money required for an operation ”

“ And, at times of strain, when more pressure is needed, there is no increase in pressure to meet that need.
This unregulated pressure tends to stretch the weakened muscles at the point of rupture—distends and enlarges the opening.
That is one reason why a rupture grows constantly worse when a leg-strap or spring truss is worn. Such trusses are a crime—wearing them is simply slow suicide. ”