Yet—because he has never seen a case like it before—a case that would seem simple to us often completely baffles the best of truss fitters in drug stores, local truss concerns, surgical supply houses, etc.
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.
During our long experience, for every person who came to our Institute we have probably attended to ten others by mail.
And we have proved over and over—year after year—that we can give relief by mail to the man five or five thousand miles away just as well as to the man who came to our Institute.
Give Entire Time To Attending Cases By Mail
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 that many of them—largely because they have been wearing, for years, perhaps, trusses which have been letting them get worse all the time—are so weakened and run down in health that they stand little chance of recovering from the shock of an operation.
These are the people who are most in need of our truss and most in need of our skilled care and attention.
And here in Bloomfield we can do more good, give relief to more people by mail, than we could had we remained in New York.