| The Cruel Spring Truss It is impossible to keep the spring truss in position. Due to the force of the springs around the waist, the pads dig against the pelvic bone with terrible pressure, sapping the vitality. The previous chapter shows how most ruptures grow constantly worse when trusses like these are worn. |
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Dotted lines in lower illustration show Spring Truss coiled up before
applied. Try to hold springs apart as when on the body as shown for half
a minute. Then you will know what criminal pressure the spring truss
gives. [full page (thumbnail)] |
Law Should Stop the Sale
of Drug Store Trusses
We believe the day will soon come when laws will be passed forbidding any one either to fit or sell trusses without a legal license.
Just as physicians, surgeons and dentists must all have licenses. So must oculists and opticians, in most states. Also druggists, before they can fill prescriptions.
And, unless a man has made a specialized study of rupture—unless he has a thorough knowledge of it—he should no more be allowed to sell or fit trusses than a schoolboy should be allowed to practice medicine.
Ruptured people seriously risk their health when they trust their cases to any one who hasn't made a thorough, specialized study of rupture. That is almost as dangerous as having a prescription filled by an inexperienced clerk, instead of by a registered pharmacist. For a wrong truss can cause immense harm.
Trusses Should Be Sold Only Under License
When the time comes when trusses can be sold only under license, we'll see most of the self-styled "Hernia Specialists" driven out of business.