Moreover, in a surgical operation, the relaxed muscles are tightened simply by shortening them—by cutting out a piece.
But nothing is done to strengthen these muscles. Nature is in no way assisted. The parts usually remain weak—that is why, when a man leaves the hospital after an operation for rupture, he is usually told to wear a truss or support.
And that is why, in about six out of every ten apparently successful operations, the rupture sooner or later breaks out anew.
So we would never advise an operation, save as a last resort. As in strangulated hernia, where there is no hope except through heroic measures.
Save in very rare cases, there is now no need whatever to undergo the dangers of an operation—no need to risk the surgeon's knife. No need to incur the big expense of going to a hospital—no need to lose any time from work or business—no need to be in bed a single day.
For since the invention of the Cluthe Truss or Cluthe Automatic Massager, the day of operation is over, save for an occasional case.
The Cluthe Truss has probably effected more permanent cures than all the operations ever performed.
And is always safe, and almost invariably beneficial, whether or not it brings complete cure. (Cure is sometimes impossible, as told in another chapter.)
Why Ordinary Trusses Do
More Harm Than Good
The country is full of trusses which are nothing but more or less worthless makeshifts. Some with so little merit that they try to hide under other names.