Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1924 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1924

/O The Best Support in the World / _ DI TDTI TDC y y ror 3 KUr 1 UKI s Is the Human Hand WORST Support Ever Devised, Is a Hard, Unyielding Knob, or Pad, Pressed Into the Rupture by a Steel Spring-Thereby Preventing Nature From EVER Having a Chance to Bring About a Healing of the Parts.

The Brooks Appliance most closely resembles the human hand as a rupture support. You will notice the first moment you put on a Brooks ' Appliance, the pliable, flesh-like touch of the • velvet finished rubber and it will take only this first experience of comfort and security to make you decide —“This is what I want.” For the benefit of our readers we take pleasure in publishing the Brooks offer to save all who are ruptured from wearing painful makeshift trusses hat do not cure. No man or woman ever can look and feel his or her best while suffering the torment, pain and discomfort of rupture. Every day that you suffer from rupture—every hour of truss torture that you endure—after you read this page is your own fault. For many years we have been telling you that no makeshift truss will ever help you. We have told you abput the harm ill-fitting trusses are doing. We/have told you that the only truly

V4V - - comfortable, sanitary and scientific device for holding rupture is the Brooks Rupture Appliance. Now we offer to prove it to you, entirely at our risk. We will send you a Brooks Rupture Appliance on trial. If you really want to be rid of your rupture fill out the coupon below and mail it today. Instead of wearing a steel spring or inflexible harness, try the velvetsoft Brooks Appliance. Instead of the old hard or stuffed pad, use the soft automatic rubber air-cushion of a Brooks Appliance. The Brooks Appliance clings to you without force and you are hardly conscious of its presence. But above all else, it HOLDS always. Within an hour after you receive the Brooks Appliance, if you take advantage of this remarkable trial offer, you will throw away your truss. Many hundreds of physicians and surgeons recommend the Brooks Appliance and condemn makeshift

The BROOKS APPLIANCE Has Freed Thousands of Men, Women and Children From RUPTURE—Without Pain, Operation, or Loss of Time

Mr. C. E. Brooks, Inventor of the Appliance. Mr. Brooks cured himself of rupture over 20 years ago and patented the Appliance from his personal experience. If ruptured, write TODAY to the Brooks Appliance Company, Marshall, Michigan. Write as full a description of your case as you wish, and ask all the questions you care to ask. Having handled hundreds of thousands of cases by mail, we know just what is required and can advise you better than many co-called “fitters” whose experience has been limited to a few local cases. Look for trade mark signature of C. E. Brooks and his picture an every appliance. None other genuine. We have no agent or dealer in Indianapolis.

trusses as more harmful and dangerous than any other method of retaining and treating rupture. Thousands of people have written us testifying to the amazing results they have secured from this great invention. Many of these people live right in your vicinity and we will be glad to send you copies of their thankful letters if you will ask for them when you write. Men, Women and Children Find the Brooks Appliance Equally Effective No matter if your rupture is old and severe or only recently developed, no matter if you are young- or old, you should not fail to profit by this No-Risk Trial Offer. No other rupture support, truss, lock, device, pad or plaster is offered to the public under so broad a guarantee of satisfaction.

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Over 1,010,000 People Have Accepted This Offer. Why Not You? Doesn’t that prove that the Brooks Appliance is not an experiment, but a positive success —that it does all we claim for it? Among tfyese 1,010,000 men, women and children there must be hundreds whose condition was identical with yours. Can you afford not to investigate and satisfy yourself when it costs you nothing to prove what the Brooks Appliance will do for you? This wonderful device is a triumph of scientific and mechanical genius, the outcome of more than 30 years’ experience and the results accomplished by its use are little short of miraculous. Wl t'ii you try a Brooks Appliance you will notice instantly how very much this support resembles the touch and clinging pressure of a human hand. Send the coupon NOW for further description of the Appliance and for our FREE, NO-RISK, TRIAL PLAN.

The Brooks Appliance Cos. gladly sends their remarkable patented Appliance ON TRIAL to prove that it holds the rupture back, keeps it in place, prevents its coming down or slipping out and finally assists nature to heal up the rupture. Ten Reasons Why You Should Accept This Offer 1. It is absolutely the only Appliance embodying the principles that inventors have sought after for years. 2. The Appliance for retaining the cannot be thrown out of position. 3. Being an air cushion of soft rubber it clings closely to the body, yet never blisters or causes irritation. 4. Unlike ordinary so-called pads, it is not cumbersome or ungainly. 5. It is small, soft and pliable, and positively cannot be detected through the

clothing. 6. The soft, pliable bands do not give the unpleasant sensation of wearing a harness. 7. Nothing to get foul; it can be washed without any injury. 8. There are no metal springs in the Appliance to torture one by cutting and bruising the flesh. 9. All materials are the very best that money can buy, making it a durable and safe appliance to wear. 10. We guarantee your comfort at all times and in all positions, and sell every-appliance with this positive understanding. Free-Guaranteed Trial The Brooks Appliance Cos. 1232 State St., Marshall, Mich. Without cost to me or obligation on my part to buy, please send me by mail in plain sealed envelope, full information about your Appliance for rupture, and your Trial Offer. (If you wish special advice, write us about your cas% sending your letter with this coupon.) , ‘ . *■'; : jg Name Address City State

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