Like the junk handed out at drug-stores. Like the traps peddled by the quacks who pose as Hernia "Specialists."
Trusses and appliances with belts, bands or springs around the waist, trusses with leg-straps, etc.
Some of these trusses cost little more to make than a pair of good suspenders or garters. A little leather, a few pieces of elastic or web band, a cloth-covered pad with sawdust in it, is about all there is to them.
So, like suspenders or garters, they absorb perspiration; that rots them so they soon give out.
But their greatest weakness isn't in their cheap materials; it's in their unscientific construction, in the fact that they usually do more harm than good.
Your Suspenders Would Do As Much Good As Some Trusses
A rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so apt to do harm.
Might just as well wear your suspenders or garters over your rupture as some of the trusses and devices with which this country is overrun. Some of these trusses would hold your rupture just about as well if you left them hanging in the closet instead of wearing them.
During the many years The Cluthe Rupture Institute was located in New York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such trusses.
Every day, one after another of the victims of such appliances were coming to us for relief.