t of the abdomen, and is held in
place by a soft silk-elastic waist-band. In each of the slanting arms of
the triangle are small holes that admit the central pivot of a bell-pad,
having a central spring, and so adjusted that it adapts itself to every
movement of the body without being misplaced. By means of a thumb-screw
and the perforations, it (the spring bell-pad) can be set at any point
in the groin, and can be changed from day to day and hour to hour.

{Illustration: Fig. 13.
INSTRUMENT ON BODY.
_a. a._ Transverse Steel Band; _b. b._ Elastic Waist Belt;
_c. d._ Metallic Arms, perforated to permit change of pad pressure;
_e._ Pubic Shield to which Elastic Cradle is attached; _f._ Bell
Spring Pad.}

By means of pivotal joints at the angles, the appliance can be made
to fit any one perfectly; moreover, by means of the metallic shoulder
below, the arms can be thrown into any lateral variation of the groin
line.

We thus are able to obtain all the marked benefits of a truss without
any of its drawbacks; and that special disadvantage, steady and
wearisome pressure at one point, is wholly obviated. The whole appliance
is held in place below by means of perineal tubular rubber bands that
connect with the waist-belt behind.

Attached to the metallic shoulder below is the Elastic, Glove-Fitting,
Self-Adjusting Testicle-Cradle, by means of which not only are the
testicles perfectly supported and rested, but by the sheet-rubber lining
and the elastic tie bands, a constant, easy and perfectly painless
elastic pressure is kept up on the dilated and sagging veins, which are
thereby emptied of their unhealthy and stagnated blood and allowed to
regain their tone, strength and contractility.

By means of the elastic bands it is easy to regulate the amount of
pressure, thereby constantly adapting it to the improvement that is
steadily taking place.

The compression is so uniform, yet so elastic, that it is absolutely
painless, and no motion of the body, however violent, can disarrange it.
This, and the fact that the blood can enter and leave the testicle with
perfect freedom, constitute some of its most marked advantages over the
Truss.

Moreover, the wearer always feels a sense of rest and relief while
wearing the Elastic Cradle-Compressor, and from the first day the
symptoms of weakness and impotence improve. Being made in different
sizes and shapes, and of the most durable yet softest silk, and powerful
yet