uments are made.

Learned the business under the old-fashioned German apprentice system;
and got a mighty thorough training, as most men do over there.

When still a young man he came to this country; and in course of time,
he started up for himself.

Now, nearly all surgical instrument houses-- in those days same as
now-- make or sell trusses.

And Chas. Cluthe soon saw the utter worthlessness of all the trusses
then in existence.

[Sidenote: He Saw The Need For Something Better]

He saw what a multitude of people were ruptured. Saw the great need for
something better than ordinary trusses or appliances, something better
than operation.

He decided that by supplying that need he could be far more useful than
by manufacturing surgical instruments.

And from that day to this-- now over forty-two years-- the scientific
study and relief of rupture have been the one aim of his life.

That led, later on, to the founding of the Cluthe Rupture Institute.

And there are now five of us-- father and four sons. For as we sons grew
up, we were trained in our father's work in the field of rupture; and
have become Members of the Institute.

We four sons have all had the benefit of our father's forty years of
experience. And the youngest of us has now had seventeen years of
individual experience.

And here, day-after-day, we have dealt with rupture in all its forms and
stages.

Altogether, at this writing, we have treated, by mail and in person,
over 290,000 cases.

All kinds, from infants in their mothers' arms to men and women over
sixty and seventy. Among them some of the worst cases on record.

We have made impartial, fair-and-square tests of every known method of
treatment.

We have had experience with all kinds of medical applications, and all
kinds of mechanical appliances.

We have fitted belt and spring trusses in all their variations. We long
ago found just why they all fail to hold or relieve rupture-- just why
they usually cause the wearer untold torture.

We have had the co-operation of some of this country's most noted
physicians and surgeons.

We have studied the effects and watched the results in hundreds of
operations.

We have found just why operations are frequently fatal. Why they are
nearly always dangerous. And why the rupture frequently breaks out anew,
after the operation apparently heals.

Every remedial means in existence for the relief of rupture has been
tried.

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