From your answers to the simple questions we ask on our information blank, we first decide the needs of your case—then we prescribe—then we fill our prescription by making especially for your case exactly the kind of truss you need.
A physician never asks you what kind of medicine you want—he prescribes for you the kind which he knows you need.
But if you go to a drug-store for a truss, the clerk behind the counter asks you what kind of truss you want!
You must be your own doctor.
Druggists Know Nothing about Rupture
Neither the drug clerk nor the druggist knows enough about rupture to know what kind of truss you need.
And, usually, his knowledge of trusses is confined to the difference in prices—he'd rather sell you a $10 truss than a $3 truss.
His knowledge of fitting is not much greater.
If you measure 36 inches around the hips, he gives you a 36-inch truss—which, in everything except size, would be exactly like the truss he'd sell at the same price, to a man with a rupture only half as bad as yours, or to a man with a rupture twice as bad as yours.
A drug-store sells trusses in exactly the same way that the old-fashioned shoe store sold shoes.