Might as well expect all men to be properly fitted in a shoe store which carries only one size and shape of shoe. Or in a hat store which carries only one size of hat. Might as well expect both near-sighted and far-sighted men to see better if both wore the same kind of glasses. And might as well expect common window-glass to improve the eye-sight as to expect common drug-store trusses to do any good. [Sidenote: Just Like Getting Glasses] There is just as much difference in different men's ruptures as in the size and shape of their feet or heads. Just as much variation in rupture as in failing eyesight. And everybody knows that one man may need very powerful glasses, while another needs glasses which magnify only slightly; one may need a double lens, while another needs only a single lens; one may need convex lenses, while another needs concave. All this doesn't mean that it is hard to fit ruptured people, but merely that ample provision must be made for the different requirements. As a shoe store does for men's feet. We have found it necessary to make the Cluthe Holding Pads in 115 different styles, shapes and sizes. And frequently we have to make a special style or size. Thus, no matter what your rupture is like, we can fit you with a Cluthe Truss-- one put together especially for you-- one that will meet your requirements just as well as a shoe store can fit you with shoes, or an oculist fit you with exactly the kind of glasses you need. * * * * * It is for these reasons-- their ignorance of rupture-- that we have never sold the Cluthe Truss through druggists. Trusses are simply a _side-line_ in the average drug-store. Just as _cigars_ are, or "_soft drinks_." A druggist knows all about _drugs_. He has made _them_ his special _study_. But he _doesn't_ know much about _rupture_-- doesn't pretend to-- and can't be expected to. Because he _hasn't_ made a _study_ of it. It took _us_, here at the Cluthe Rupture Institute, over _forty years_ to learn all that we _now_ know about Rupture. _Forty years_ of day-after-day _concentration_ on the _study_ and _treatment_ of Rupture. And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which no one _else_ has _ever learned_-- we have gained knowledge which is exclusively our _own_. And it took many years of scientific study and experiment to perfect the _Cluthe Truss_, and to design the hundreds of different _kinds_, _sizes_, and _shapes_ of Holding Pads which adapt this truss to every form and condition of Rupture known to-day. We have told you this, Reader, to show that placing yourself in our care is vastly different from going to a _drug-store_, or to a mere _dealer_ in trusses or _manufacturer_ of them. And the following chapters will show that even more conclusively. [Illustration: Showing a few of the different sizes and shapes in which the Cluthe Holding Pads are made.] _+Physicians Advise Cluthe Truss Instead of Operation+_