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I shall be pleased to recommend it to everyone ruptured JOSEPH DOBINSON 381 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass October 10, 1911 Soon Cured and Never Used Truss Since I verily believe that your truss is the best of all the trusses made, for after less than a year's use of the Cluthe Truss I laid it away and never had to use any truss since.

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  1. noun Medicine A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia.
  2. noun A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof.
  3. noun Architecture A bracket.
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  • But the massage given by our truss is a hundred times more invigorating and strengthening to the ruptured parts than any amount of hand-rubbing. —  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • I shall be pleased to recommend it to everyone ruptured JOSEPH DOBINSON 381 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass October 10, 1911 Soon Cured and Never Used Truss Since I verily believe that your truss is the best of all the trusses made, for after less than a year's use of the Cluthe Truss I laid it away and never had to use any truss since. —  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • I think your truss is the only perfect device for rupture made. —  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • My truss is as good now as the day I received it from you J. C. HERSHBERGER West Church St., Williamsport, Md October 4, 1911 Feels No Trouble Whatever from Either Rupture I still wear the double truss I purchased last March. —  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • I think I am cured, as I feel no trouble whatever from either rupture, but the truss is so comfortable I have continued to wear it C. A. HAZEN Woodsville, N.H September 30, 1911 This Newark, N.J., Man Cured of Worst Kind of Scrotal Rupture by the Cluthe Truss Your great truss cured me of a scrotal rupture of the worst form, after years of suffering, having tried at least 20 other makes of trusses, etc., which did me no good except caused me more suffering. —  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
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  1. Middle English trusse, bundle, from Old French trousse, from torser, trousser, to truss, possibly from Vulgar Latin *torsāre, from *torsus, variant of Latin tortus, past participle of torquēre, to twist; see terkw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English trussen, trushen = Middle High German trossen, from Old French trusser, trosser, trousser, torser, French trousser = Provencal trossar = Spanish troxar, pack, bind, tie, tuck up, truss, = Italian torciare, twist, wrap, tie, from Middle Latin *tortiare, from Latin tortus, past participle of torquere, twist: see tort. Cf. torch, from Middle Latin tortia, a torch, orig. a piece of twisted rope. Hence ult. truss, n., trouse, trousers, trousseau.
  2. from Middle English trusse = Middle High German trosse, German tross, from Old French (and F.) trousse = Provencal trossa = Spanish troja = Portuguese trouxa, a bundle, pack; from the verb.
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