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Title: Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured

Author: Chas. Cluthe & Sons

Release Date: November 27, 2006 [EBook #19933]

Language: English

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[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 S