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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 6

WHY SUFFER? It is hard to conceive, but it appears to be a fact that some people actually like suffering! Were it otherwise they would get the relief, without any delay, which is available. Then, again, there are those who suffer in secret. They tell no one; they seem to think that no one else can be incapacitated in the way they are. Did such people make confidants, they would probably learn the fact, known to investigators, that one in ten of the whole population suffered in the same way as they do themselves. Rupture is nothing to he ashamed of; it is not a disease but an accident due to mechanical action. It is not the loafer who suffers the accident of rupture, but the hard worker. Hundreds of sufferers from rupture in all its varied complications have been completely cured by Mr A. W. Martin, the sole proprietor of the now world-renowned Sherman method. By this method of treatment there is no lying up or stoppage of one’s occupation, whatever its nature may be. The success of the Sherman treatment is due to the personal application, after examination, by the specialist. This personal examination is absolutely necessary, and obviously so, because no two cases of rupture are alike. It is for this reason, and others, that the ordinary truss is ineffective. The truss’s action is contrary to what is needed. It tends to keep open the aperture, while the Sherman appliance is the only one which gives an upward and contractile pressure, rendering healing up possible. From what has been said, it is clear that sending abroad for treatment is a waste of time and money. Why suffer a surgical operation when the Sherman treatment is painless? No one in the southern hemisphere lias tended so many cases of hernia as Mr A. W. Martin, and sufferers will do well to take advantage of his presence in Dunedin before he starts on his twentysixth annual visit to other centres in New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. Mr A. W. Martin may be consulted at his rooms. Samson’s Buildings, Dowling street, daily, 10 to 12 noon, 2 to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 to 12 noon. A booklet on “ Rupture and Its Treatment” posted free to sufferers, —7231.

A coach horn is used instead of a gong to call the students of Queen’s College, Oxford, to dinner.