As a first essential, proper artificial _support_ must be applied at the
point of rupture.
Comfortable mechanical support that can be depended upon to hold the
bowels always in _place_.
Just as a broken bone must be held in place, while healing, by a bandage
or plaster cast.
Dr. Birkett, of the famous Guy Hospital of London, and one of the
world's most eminent medical and surgical authorities, says this:
[Sidenote: What Dr. Birkett Says]
"The expediency of judiciously pursuing the mechanical treatment of
every variety of hernia (rupture) cannot be too strongly urged upon the
laity by the profession. In both sexes it should be carefully conducted
the moment that the slightest protrusion shows itself; whether the
hernia occurs in infancy, youth, middle age or at later periods of life,
if properly watched and judiciously supported, it usually gives but
little trouble; in many cases it is even cured. But on the contrary, if
it be neglected, increase in bulk and, sooner or later, diseased states
of the rupture, often leading to the death of the individual, will
almost infallibly occur."
And there is only one thing in the world that can _give_ the mechanical
support which Dr. Birkett and other famous physicians say is essential.
That is the right kind of _truss_.
Any system of treatment (except operation) which claims to relieve or
cure rupture _without_ the use of a truss is simply a fraud.
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