Produced by Louise Hope, David Newman, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: Illustrations without captions are described in the accompanying text.] [Illustration: _+The Five Members of the Cluthe Rupture Institute+_ CHAS. CLUTHE Founder of the Cluthe Rupture Institute 41 Years' Experience CHAS. CLUTHE, Jr. 23 Years' Experience in the Institute FREDK. WM. CLUTHE 21 Years' Experience in the Institute HERMAN CLUTHE 19 Years' Experience in the Institute ALFRED CLUTHE 17 Years' Experience in the Institute ] CLUTHE'S ADVICE TO THE RUPTURED BY Chas. Cluthe & Sons CLUTHE RUPTURE INSTITUTE Bloomfield, New Jersey (A Suburb of New York City) COPYRIGHT 1912 BY CHAS. CLUTHE & SONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Page One of the World's Most Terrible Burdens 5 Our Forty Years of Experience 9 Rupture Always Brought On by Weakness 12 How to Overcome the Weakness Which Causes Rupture 16 How Your Rupture is Kept from Coming Out 20 The Care and Attention We Give You 23 Able to Work While Being Cured 30 Don't Let Yourself be Scared into Risking an Operation 32 Why Ordinary Trusses Do More Harm Than Good 34 Law Should Stop the Sale of Drug-Store Trusses 38 Physicians Advise Cluthe Truss Instead of Operation 44 Ruptured People Swindled Out of Thousands of Dollars 46 What We Have Done for Over 290,000 Others 50 Costs More to Do Without it Than to Get it 52 The Special Advice You Get in Connection with the Cluthe Truss 57 Forms and Conditions of Rupture 60 Let Us Send You a Cluthe Truss on 60 Days' Trial 65 See How Little it Costs to Get Relief 68 Don't Let Yourself Keep on Getting Worse 70 _+One of the World's Most Terrible Burdens+_ Why So Few People Know of Anything That Will Do Any Good In a good many ways, rupture is one of the world's most terrible burdens. It is almost as common as poor eyesight. And the cause of far more trouble, far greater suffering and worry. For, while it's easy enough to get glasses that will improve the _sight_, only a small proportion of the vast host of sufferers have ever been fortunate enough to find anything that would even keep _rupture_ from growing worse. And about all a doctor can do is to suggest an operation. Though there are plenty of good physicians, plenty who can conquer other ailments, there are mighty few who can do anything whatever for rupture. But that is no fault of the physicians. [Sidenote: Medical Treatment is Powerless]