like farmers,
blacksmiths, railway firemen, factory workers, miners, etc.-- are among
those cured by this truss; cured while _working_ right along, cured
while earning good incomes.

Also men taking more or less violent exercise, like base-ball players,
tennis players, horse-back and bicycle riders, etc.

[Sidenote: A Few Of The Men Who Were Cured While Working]

Some of them, while working, remember, cured in less than three months.

A lot of them cured in from four to twelve months; among them men who
had been ruptured as long as fifteen to thirty years.

And took only a little while longer for some who had been ruptured as
long as fifty years to be cured.

You will find, at the back of this book, many letters in proof of this.

* * * * *

We have seen the Cluthe Truss do so much good for so many other people
that we feel sure it can do wonders for you.

So sure it will help you, just as it did them that-- as explained in a
later chapter-- we are willing to let you test it on sixty days' trial,
to prove just how much it can benefit you.

_+Don't Let Yourself Be Scared Into Risking An Operation+_

Cluthe Truss Has Done Away with All Need For Operation, Except in
Occasional Cases

People _used_ to think that an operation was the only way to cure
rupture-- thought they had to be cut open.

Just as people _used_ to know no better than to undergo _bleeding,_ no
matter in what way they were sick. Histories and biographies tell us it
was the loss of blood from this barbarous bleeding which led to George
Washington's death.

But nowadays we never hear of bleeding.

Just as fever patients are no longer denied ice water and ice
applications. Though, not so many years ago, people were literally
allowed to burn up with fever.

[Sidenote: Thousands Have Died Under The Surgeon's Knife]

Operation for rupture, for reasons stated below has never been much more
than a life-or-death chance, even for those with a rugged constitution.
Thousands of ruptured people have died under the surgeon's knife.

Oftentimes a weak heart-- because of the ether-- makes it unsafe even to
attempt operation.

And it has always been a big expense which not one in a hundred could
afford. Even though it had no dangers, the cost and the long lay-off
from work or business make it useless for the majority of sufferers to
think of an operation.

The reasons operation is so risky for most people are these:

The suffer