Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 21, 3 December 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND. PALLAi)ji .11 SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. FRIDAY DEC. 3, 1920. HP 11 I li e t in the. World. n mo Tl JO

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Is The Human Hand

The 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 publis

Brooks offer to save all who are ruptured from wearing painful shift trusses that 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 about the harm ill-fitting trusses are doing. We have told you that the only truly 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 flexible harness, try the VELVET-SOFT Brooks Appliance. Instead of the old hard or stuffed pad, use the SOFT AUTOMATIC RUBBER AIRCUSHION of a Brooks Appliance.

The Brooks Appliance Co. gladly sends their re mark ale 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.

A Portrait done in Charcoal by Herman Pfeifer, From a Photograph of Mr. C. E. Brooks, Inventor of the Appliance and Founder of the Brooks Appliance Co. j

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.

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 trusses as more harmful

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.

The Brooks Appliance Has Freed Thousands of Men, Women and Children from Rupture Without Pain, Operation or Loss of Time

Over 715,000 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 these 715,000 men, women and children there must be HUNDREDS WHOSE CONDITION WAS IDENTICAL WITH YOURS. Kj&ci 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. When 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.

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 rupture cannot be thrown out or 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. j 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. The Brooks Appliance Co. 643 F, State St., Marshall, Mich. Without cost or obligation on my part please send me by mail in plain wrapper your illustrated book and full information about your Appliance for rupture, and vour Trial Offer. Name Address City State

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