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.

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 place.

It massages the weak ruptured parts as well as a skilled hand-massager could, as well as could be done at a hospital. And charges nothing for giving the massage—there is no expense beyond the price of the truss.

This Strengthening Massage Given Automatically

It massages the weak ruptured parts entirely automatically or mechanically. And does it in a wonderfully simple way; the massaging device—so small it would go in a watch case—is so simple that you'll wonder when you see it how it can produce such a strengthening effect.

Keeps massaging the weak ruptured parts all day long—all without a moment's attention from you, all without keeping you from your work, all without in any way interfering with your pleasure.

And, at the same time, holds the rupture constantly and comfortably in place.

Takes all strain off the ruptured parts, rests the weakened muscles while the massage is strengthening them; just as you must rest a strained ankle—keep your weight off it—while it is healing.

Keeps you from even feeling a single one of the strains that are apt to do so much harm when other trusses are worn.

That is how this remarkable truss, while overcoming your weakness, rids work of all its dangers.

Takes away all risk of further weakening yourself or of making the rupture worse.

Rids Work of All Its Dangers

Instead, any work you do will actually help make your rupture better, actually have a healing or curative effect.

Every movement you make—in working, walking, exercising, even in breathing—so acts on the Cluthe Truss as to help produce the strengthening massage.

This massage is wonderfully soothing, like gently rubbing a bruised spot.

And is so remarkably beneficial that in about one hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every two hundred, the rupture usually begins to get better almost the day a Cluthe Truss is put on.

So remarkably beneficial that the Cluthe Truss has cured some of the worst cases of rupture on record—cured many of them even after everything else, including operation, had done no good whatever.

For this massage does for the weak ruptured parts exactly what exercise does for the arms or legs—gradually gives new strength—in most cases soon makes the ruptured parts as strong and sound as a dollar.

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This massage, in some ways, is like Osteopathic treatment.

Which, as a cure for certain ailments, is fast taking the place of drugs and surgical operations.

Most likely you've heard or read about some of the Osteopathic cures. Nearly everybody, nowadays, has. Maybe you know of Osteopathic cures right there in your own neighborhood.

Some of the cures made in this way seem almost magical.

And it is largely because massage forms a big part of it that Osteopathic treatment does so much good, especially in many kinds of weakness.

Something Like Osteopathic Treatment

Like a weak back, or weak kidneys, or weak or worn out nerves, etc.

And there's only one reason why Osteopathic physicians can't cure rupture as easily as any other weakness.

Like hospital massage, it can be given only when you are flat on your back; and, unless a Cluthe Truss is worn—which takes the place of Osteopathic Treatment and makes it unnecessary, just as it does the hospital massage—there would be no way of preventing protrusion between treatments.

Moreover, Osteopathic treatment, like hospital massage, would be too expensive for most people. Even if given only occasionally. For Osteopathic physicians charge $3.00 to $5.00 a treatment.

But the Cluthe Truss keeps giving the massage part of Osteopathic treatment—the strengthening part of the treatment—all day long; and all without any expense, except the small cost of the truss.