And some call themselves Rupture or Hernia "Specialists"-- but never specialized in anything except swindling ruptured people. Some of them make offers like "Free to the Ruptured"-- so worded as to make a man think it means free cure. But all they send you free is a cheap little folder or circular. People who write to them soon learn to know better than to expect something for nothing. [Sidenote: Don't be Fooled by "Appliances," "Methods," etc.] And some try to snare their victims with deceitful "Don't-Wear-a-Truss" talk. Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell. Try to fool you with things they call "Appliances," "Methods," "Discoveries," etc. But the man who puts any faith in such claims soon finds that these so-called "Appliances" and "Methods" are nothing but an adaptation of the old-fashioned truss with belt, band, leg-straps, springs, etc. Nothing but the most worthless kind of a truss masquerading under a misleading name. Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment-- tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances. 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. [Sidenote: 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.