Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured

by Cluthe Rupture Institute

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.