For you will get from us-- in connection with the Cluthe Truss, and without extra charge-- the skilled care and attention of five men (the five members of the Cluthe Rupture Inst.i.tute) who are pretty well known throughout America as being foremost in the field of rupture.

And you will get our care and attention-- and our special advice on your case-- without putting yourself to half as much trouble as when you go to a drug store--

You will get it merely by sending us-- as explained farther on-- a little simple information.

[Sidenote: Distance Makes No Difference]

We can study and understand your case as well with you five to five thousand or more miles away as we could with you right before us; or just as well as the best physician could study and diagnose a case of typhoid or other sickness right at the bedside of the patient.

Our system of attending to people by mail is so exact-- and our knowledge and skill so great-- that no matter how far away you are we can fit you correctly with a Cluthe Truss just as surely as a high cla.s.s tailor could fit you with a suit of clothes after taking your measurements himself.

[Ill.u.s.tration: _+THE CLUTHE RUPTURE INSt.i.tUTE+_]

Here we have on file-- in writing-- complete particulars concerning each of the 290,000 cases we have attended to.

Every case is carefully indexed and ready for instant reference.

Nothing is left to memory or guesswork-- nothing can be overlooked, nothing forgotten.

Thus your case can be easily and accurately compared with hundreds of similar cases.

You see we have made mail order fitting and mail order care and attention a science.

That-- together with the superiority of the Cluthe Truss-- together with the knowledge and experience gained through attending to thousands of widely different cases-- gives us a tremendous advantage over your local druggist or any one else you could go to.

For years our Inst.i.tute was located in the heart of New York City-- within a short car ride of several million people.

[Sidenote: Our Advantages Over The Drug Store]

And there-- in the course of years-- among the thousands of people who came in person to be attended to at our Inst.i.tute, we had in our care case after case of every kind and condition of rupture ever known.

And all this time we were also attending by mail to cases of all kinds in all parts of the civilized world.

No druggist-- no truss fitter in any drug store or surgical supply house-- no one else in all America-- ever had such a wonderful opportunity to learn all the peculiarities of rupture.

Our experience has been so complete that in the last five years we haven't come across a single case-- either by mail or among those who came to the Inst.i.tute-- which presented any peculiarities that we were not already familiar with.

Yet-- because he has never seen a case like it before-- a case that would seem simple to us often completely baffles the best of truss fitters in drug stores, local truss concerns, surgical supply houses, etc.

Now it is only in the largest drug stores, local truss establishments and surgical instrument houses-- perhaps in only five or six places in a city like New York or Chicago-- that a special or "expert" truss fitter of any kind is employed.

So if a comparatively simple case puzzles these "expert" fitters, a man certainly can't expect much satisfaction at the small drug store, where whichever clerk that isn't busy-- at best someone with little or no knowledge at all of rupture-- will undertake to wait on you.

During our long experience, for every person who came to our Inst.i.tute we have probably attended to ten others by mail.

And we have proved over and over-- year after year-- that we can give relief by mail to the man five or five thousand miles away just as well as to the man who came to our Inst.i.tute.

[Sidenote: Give Entire Time To Attending Cases By Mail]

So now we have moved our Inst.i.tute to Bloomfield, N.J.-- only ten miles from New York City-- a quiet suburb where we can give our entire time to attending to cases by mail.

For we have found that the great majority of the victims of rupture can't afford to lay off from work or business long enough to undergo operation-- the only thing besides the Cluthe Truss which can be looked upon as a means of relief; we have found that most ruptured people can't spare the money required for an operation; and that many of them-- largely because they have been wearing, for years, perhaps, trusses which have been letting them get worse all the time-- are so weakened and run down in health that they stand little chance of recovering from the shock of an operation.

These are the people who are most in need of our truss and most in need of our skilled care and attention.

And here in Bloomfield we can do more good, give relief to more people by mail, than we could had we remained in New York.

And here, day after day, we are attending by mail to people in New York City-- only ten miles away-- just as we are to sufferers in Maine, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, California, etc.

[Sidenote: Well-Known Business Men Order By Mail]

Big business men in New York-- bankers, presidents of big corporations, noted lawyers and others-- men perhaps living in the same block with some noted physician or surgeon-- men who could send for their autos and in fifteen to thirty minutes be in any one of New York's best hospitals-- men who can afford the best medical and surgical care in the world-- are among those who have ordered Cluthe Trusses from us here in Bloomfield in exactly the same way-- by mail-- that a man out in Ohio or Oregon would.

Now when men like these-- many of them acting on the advice of famous physicians-- are taking advantage of the care and attention we give by mail in connection with the Cluthe Truss, it is mighty good proof of our ability to attend to any kind of case by mail.

[Sidenote: How We Study Your Case]

The first thing we do, when a man writes for a Cluthe Truss, is to make a careful, scientific study of his case. We must understand your case thoroughly-- know all its peculiarities.

And please bear in mind that your case will receive the personal attention of at least three members-- perhaps there will be a consultation of all five members-- of the Cluthe Rupture Inst.i.tute.

No order is ever put in the hands of a clerk or helper or other inexperienced person.

In each case we give our complete professional service. Each case is treated _individually_.

We take into consideration the kind of rupture-- the location of the rupture opening-- the size of the protrusion, the length of time ruptured, the cause of the rupture, whether or not an operation has been performed, etc., etc.

You will find, on our information blank (one is enclosed with this book, or see duplicate questions on page 73) some simple, easily-answered questions concerning these points.

And your answers to these questions, if your answers are correct, furnish us all the guidance we need as to the special requirements of your case. Just as a physician in writing a prescription is guided by the answers to his simple questions.

That is how we determine the shape and size of the Automatic Holding Pad (in case of Double Rupture, each rupture is _individually_ treated, usually a different kind of pad for each side, for both sides are seldom the same).

And that is how we determine the adjustment of the pads and all parts, the amount of support needed and the regulation of the holding pads to give the support, etc., etc.

Then, after deciding all these points, we make for you a _special_ Cluthe Truss-- one exactly adapted to your individual case-- every part of it exactly what your condition requires. (Compare _that_ with the way drug stores and local truss dealers try to fit you with a ready-made "stock" truss.)

We next take this specially made truss to our Gallery of Statues-- which consists of life-size and life-like models or dummy figures.

[Sidenote: Our Life-Like Models]

And here, no matter what your size or build, we have a dummy model corresponding to your living self in shape-- a form your clothes would fit just as they fit on you.

When we see the measurements you give when ordering (they are all provided for in a simple way on our Information or Question blank) we know at once which one of our many models or forms to use.

And on this form-- duplicating your size and build-- we fit your truss, as soon as it is made, just as if you yourself were right here in front of us.