n't make proper provision for your requirements.

Then many sufferers, in their search for relief, have been handicapped
by wrong ideas about rupture.

[Sidenote: Many Wrong Ideas About Rupture]

There has grown up a general impression that rupture is something to be
ashamed of.

But a badly mistaken impression.

For the plain fact is that rupture, if you don't let it go till
complications set in, merely indicates a weakness of certain muscles,
and is no more to be ashamed of than a weak stomach or deafness, or poor
eye-sight.

Such wrong ideas-- and the false modesty they have bred-- have made
rupture a tabooed subject; one to be talked about in whispers, one to be
discussed with blushes.

This lack of frank discussion-- lack of light on the subject-- has kept
people in the dark.

So the majority of sufferers haven't known just what was needed; in
seeking relief they have had to trust largely to luck.

That is why rupture has heretofore been such a terrible handicap.

[Sidenote: The Misery It Has Caused]

It has ruined the health of hundreds of thousands, simply because they
couldn't find anything that would do any good. Kept them from getting
much enjoyment out of life, sapped their strength and vitality, left
them more or less helpless, robbed them of the ability to provide for
themselves and families.

It has probably kept more people from doing their best work than any
other one affliction.

It has kept many from doing any kind of work whatever.

It has cheated American workingmen-- all those who have been its
victims-- out of vast sums of wages. For there's a big difference
between what a badly ruptured man can do and earn, and the earnings
of one who is sound and strong.

Some employers won't even hire a man if they know he is ruptured--
afraid he'll have to be so careful of himself that he can't do a good
day's work.

Rupture has kept lots of business and professional men down--

By robbing them of part of their efficiency, it has robbed them of the
chance to get farther along; robbed them of money they might have made.
For no man can be at his best in any capacity if his rupture is
bothering him-- the drain on the strength is too great.

It has interfered with the pleasures of thousands.

Deprived them of recreation, kept them from taking part in athletics,
kept them from getting proper exercise because they have known of no way
to escape the danger that lies in sudden movements.