_+How to Overcome the Weakness Which Causes Rupture+_

A New Way, But Based on a Principle as Old as the Hills-- A Principle Recognized by all Doctors

As everybody knows, you can make most any part of the body _strong_ simply by _exercising_ it.

Exercise is a wonderful thing.

Keep a child cooped up-- give it no place to play-- and it will probably grow up puny and sickly.

While a boy on the farm-- with the big out-of-doors for a playground-- is usually a picture of health.

Or take a blacksmith. He is constantly _using_ or _exercising_ his _arms_. So you'll find _them_ as hard as nails.

While his _legs_-- because he doesn't _use_ them so much-- aren't likely to be nearly so well developed.

A man in an office or store usually has soft, flabby, _weak_ muscles.

But let that man take up some form of _exercise_, like tennis or base ball, and his muscles will soon be strong.

It is a law of Nature that our minds and muscles grow by proper use, building themselves up to meet any demands made on them.

That is why, after any sickness which leaves the body _weak_, doctors nearly always tell you to take plenty of _exercise_.

Until recent years, the only way to develop strength was by _active_ exercise; movement of the muscles by their own force, as in walking, chopping wood or playing some game.

But nowadays there is a _subst.i.tute_ for exercise.

[Sidenote: Ma.s.sage Is a Subst.i.tute For Exercise]

Called _Ma.s.sage_; a sort of _artificial_ exercise; a way to strengthen muscles _without using_ them.

In simple language, ma.s.sage consists in alternately expanding and contracting the muscles by applying a gentle force _externally_, instead of moving them by voluntary and _internal_ force.

Now ma.s.sage-- like ordinary exercise-- is so _strengthening_ that it will overcome almost any kind of _weakness_.

So _invigorating_ and _beneficial_ that many well-known physicians say the day is coming when it will be an almost _universal_ method of _cure_ for every trouble in any way due to weakness.

At the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York, many cases of weak _ankles_, weak _backs_, etc., have been cured by ma.s.sage.

Now Rupture, as shown in the last chapter, is _also_ a weakness.

But ma.s.sage, as given at hospitals, can't be used to advantage for rupture.

Too _expensive_-- requires an _expert_. And could be given only when you are lying flat on your back in _bed_; therefore couldn't be given very _often_; and it would take years for only _occasional_ ma.s.saging to overcome rupture.

Moreover, hospital or hand ma.s.sage could be used only in combination with a truss that would keep the rupture from _coming out_. A protrusion every day or so, as happens with most trusses, would _undo_ all the beneficial effects of the ma.s.sage.

But the invention of the _Cluthe_ Truss-- the _only_ truss that can be _depended_ on to _prevent protrusion_-- makes hand or hospital ma.s.sage unnecessary; it takes their place.

It ma.s.sages the weak ruptured parts as well as a skilled hand-ma.s.sager could, as well as could be done at a hospital. And charges nothing for giving the ma.s.sage-- there is no expense beyond the price of the truss.

[Sidenote: This Strengthening Ma.s.sage Given Automatically]

It ma.s.sages the weak ruptured parts entirely _automatically_ or _mechanically_. And does it in a wonderfully simple way; the ma.s.saging device-- so small it would go in a watch case-- is so simple that you'll wonder when you see it how it can produce such a strengthening effect.

Keeps ma.s.saging the weak ruptured parts _all day long_-- all without a moment's attention from you, all without keeping you from your work, all without in any way interfering with your pleasure.

And, at the same time, holds the rupture constantly and comfortably in place.

Takes all _strain_ off the ruptured parts, _rests_ the weakened muscles while the _ma.s.sage_ is _strengthening_ them; just as you must rest a strained _ankle_-- keep your _weight_ off it-- while it is healing.

Keeps you from even _feeling_ a single one of the strains that are apt to do so much harm when _other_ trusses are worn.

That is how this remarkable truss, while overcoming your weakness, rids _work_ of all its _dangers_.

Takes away all risk of further weakening yourself or of making the rupture worse.

[Sidenote: Rids Work of All Its Dangers]

Instead, any work you do will actually help make your rupture _better_, actually have a _healing_ or _curative_ effect.

Every movement you make-- in working, walking, exercising, even in breathing-- so acts on the Cluthe Truss as to help produce the strengthening ma.s.sage.

This ma.s.sage is wonderfully _soothing_, like gently rubbing a bruised spot.

And is so remarkably beneficial that in about one hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every two hundred, the rupture usually begins to get better almost the day a Cluthe Truss is put on.

So remarkably beneficial that the Cluthe Truss has cured some of the worst cases of rupture on record-- cured many of them even after everything else, including operation, had done no good whatever.

For this ma.s.sage does for the weak ruptured parts exactly what _exercise_ does for the _arms_ or _legs_-- gradually gives _new_ strength-- in most cases soon makes the ruptured parts as strong and sound as a dollar.

This ma.s.sage, in some ways, is like _Osteopathic_ treatment.

Which, as a cure for certain ailments, is fast taking the place of _drugs_ and surgical _operations_.

Most likely you've heard or read about some of the Osteopathic cures.

Nearly everybody, nowadays, has. Maybe you know of Osteopathic cures right there in your own neighborhood.

Some of the cures made in this way seem almost magical.

And it is largely because _ma.s.sage_ forms a big part of it that Osteopathic treatment does so much good, especially in many kinds of _weakness_.

[Sidenote: _+Something Like Osteopathic Treatment+_]

Like a weak back, or weak kidneys, or weak or worn out nerves, etc.