; it's in
their unscientific construction, in the fact that they usually do more
harm than good.

[Sidenote: Your Suspenders Would Do As Much Good As Some Trusses]

A rubber band around your waist would do as much good as some of these
makeshift trusses and "appliances"; and not be so apt to do harm.

Might just as well wear your suspenders or garters over your rupture as
some of the trusses and devices with which this country is overrun. Some
of these trusses would hold your rupture just about as well if you left
them hanging in the closet instead of wearing them.

During the many years The Cluthe Rupture Institute was located in New
York City, we had daily evidence of the utter worthlessness of all such
trusses.

Every day, one after another of the victims of such appliances were
coming to us for relief.

When we examined these patients, we usually found that the rupture had
pushed the pads aside and worked out above or below them.

Sometimes we found that the pads had worked away from the rupture
opening, worked down against the pelvic bone. And the ruptured parts
had slipped out and were being squeezed between the pads and the bone.
A condition apt to result in strangulation.

Some of these patients came to us suffering intense torture from the
terrific pressure of such trusses-- pressure perhaps ten times greater
than needed-- and this cruel pressure is exerted from the wrong
direction, in the wrong place.

Perhaps merely a slight sneeze or cough is enough to push the pads out
of position. And then the pressure of these pads forces the ruptured
parts out, instead of holding them in.

Sometimes the pads had slipped down so far on the pelvic bone-- or had
been pulled down by the leg-straps-- that there was no support for the
rupture whatever.

And this constant pressure against the pelvic bone saps the vitality.
Often causing sexual weakness and mental failing. For between this bone
and the outer skin is the sensitive life-giving spermatic cord.

[Sidenote: Ordinary Trusses May Bring On Other Ailments]

Also, we have found in hundreds of cases that these belt and spring
trusses press against the femoral artery so severely that heart
disorders result. Causing dizziness, headaches, irritability, etc. Yet
the patient seldom associates his truss with these troubles, seldom
knows their cause.

And constipation and stomach troubles are often brought on by these
trusses. Gas on the stomach is a common