There have always been plenty of places where a ruptured man could go
for a truss; surgical supply houses, truss manufacturers, truss dealers,
drug-stores, etc. But at these places, though their intentions are good,
the men who undertake to fit you have made no special study of rupture,
and therefore can do little or nothing for you.
And the trusses they give you, because not based on a scientific study
of rupture, don'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.
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