But that is nothing more nor less than the rankest kind of fraud.
It is folly to suppose any salve, liniment or medicine can possibly cure rupture. Might as well expect them to cure a broken bone. Though they can probably do as much good as the worthless "appliances" they come with.
The Liniment Fraud
When you first apply this "lymph" or liniment, you may feel some stimulating effects; for these lymph-sellers are always careful to tell you to rub the stuff in thoroughly. But the stimulation lasts only a few minutes; and is due to the rubbing and not to the liniment. If you rub with your fingers alone—without any liniment—it will do just as much good.
This rubbing, while the stimulation lasts, simply proves the value of massage. For rubbing with your hands is, in a way, like the massage which the Cluthe Truss gives automatically. But the massage given by our truss is a hundred times more invigorating and strengthening to the ruptured parts than any amount of hand-rubbing. Our truss is giving the massage all day long, while rubbing with your hands can be done only once or twice a day at most, only when flat on your back, and only for a few minutes at a time.
Some of these people claim they can cure rupture by means of a plaster—like the kidney plaster which proved worthless long ago.
These plaster venders are careful to avoid saying out and out in plain language that their plaster will positively keep your rupture from coming out—they make no direct promises or guarantee whatever of holding the rupture.
If they cannot guarantee holding, it is nonsense to think any plaster can possibly overcome any weakness like rupture, no matter what kind of magical ointment there may be in the plasters.
We have talked of these kinds of people in plain language; we have called a spade a spade.
For it is nothing less than a crime the way these men have grown rich by defrauding ruptured people.