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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16916, 31 January 1917, Page 8

A. youth who faced the doctor in a Melbourne recruiting depot was turned down because he wore a truss, and alleged ho had; done so for two years. A mate"of his hearing what a useful purpose tbo truss had served, borrowed it, eo that he also might be able to escape the trenches "How Jong; have you worn that truss?" asked the doctor. Eighteen months," answered this anxious aspirant for military honours "You'll do." said the medico. "A- maii ■who can wear a truss- upside down for 18 months must bo in pretty good fettle!" Talking about trusses reminvis us that out of some. 1000 soldiers returned from the front to Melbourne and Sydney, it is reported that about 700 suffered"from rupture; the majority having been allegedly _' cured by surgical operation I Just imagine the cxpenso to the country 1 Mr A. W. Martin, the rupture specialist, has frequently pointed out how unscientific it is to protend that rupture can be cured by wcalccning tho abdominal wall by cuttiii" Rupture, is a protrusion of tho bowel, auVl surely, it is easy to understand that it can force its way more effectually against u weakened barrier than it can against one which is, after all, only a healed wotuxi Scores of Mr Marti nV. old paticnls are at the front, passed by tho doctors as sound, bearing, as they do, no evidence of rupture. Mr A. W. M:irtin, solo controller in Australia of the Dr J. A. Sherman's method of curing rupture, may be consulted at his rooms, Samson's Buildings, Dowling street, daily,. Hours: 10 in 12. noon, 2to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 to 12 noon. Extra hours: Monday evening 7 to 8. Booklet on rupturo:- and its cure pceied fxen to sufferers.—