The Result Of Our Study]

And the result of all this study and experimenting was the invention of
the famous Cluthe Truss and Automatic Massager.

Something so vastly different from everything else for rupture that it
has received _eighteen separate patents_.

Something far _more_ than just a _truss;_ something far _more_ than
merely a device for holding the rupture in place.

Yet the _simplest_ truss ever invented.

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The Cluthe Automatic Massaging Truss is so utterly unlike anything else
for rupture-- so much more than just a _truss_-- that sometimes we feel
we should have adopted some other name.

For the country is full of _worthless_ trusses; and so many people have
tried truss after truss without being in any way benefited that they
think that nothing called a truss can do any good. Although when people
get an inferior article of some other kind-- like clothing or shoes--
they don't condemn everything similar.

This fear of anything called a truss has kept lots of people from
answering our advertisements; lots of people, because of disappointing
experience with other trusses, won't even take the trouble to
investigate; give themselves no chance to find out about the merits of
the Cluthe Truss.

We would like to have these people believe in us and have them believe
in our truss; but, by being so suspicious, they lose far more than we;
they lose the chance to get better, and probably the chance to get well.

We sometimes speak of the Cluthe Truss as the Cluthe Automatic Massager;
both names are necessary if we would do our truss full justice.

But we have decided never to give up the word truss; in spite of the
fact that its use makes it harder to get people to believe our
advertisements.

We don't want to fly under false colors.

We don't want to do any of the things done by those who have _worthless_
trusses to sell; those who have cheap contraptions which they call
"appliances," "methods," etc., in order to deceive ruptured people.

If we were willing to call the Cluthe Truss by some other name, we would
probably disarm much of the suspicion many people have against the word
truss.

But we don't want to adopt any subterfuges. And there are now so many
people wearing Cluthe Automatic Massaging Trusses, or who have worn them
until cured, that simply by one man recommending the Cluthe Truss to
another the prejudice against the word truss is bound to be overcome in
time.

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