Elisha said, 'Bathe seven times in a certain river, Jordan, and you will get well.' The general did not like this at all; he wanted a prescription; wanted to go to the druggist; didn't believe in hydropathy to begin, and, in any case, turned up his nose at Jordan.

What! bathe in an Israelitish brook, when his own country boasted noble rivers, with a reputation for sanctity into the bargain?
In short, he preferred his leprosy to such irregular medicine.

But it happened, by some immense fortuity, that one of his servants, though an Oriental, was a friend, instead of a flatterer; and this sensible fellow said, 'If the prophet told you to do some great and difficult thing, to get rid of this fearful malady, would not you do it, however distasteful?
and can you hesitate when he merely says, Wash in the Jordan, and be healed ?' The general listened to good sense, and cured himself.

Your case is parallel.

You would take quantities of foul medicine; you would submit to some painful operation, if life and health depended on it; then why not do a small thing for a great result?
You have only to take off an unnatural machine which cripples your growing frame, and was unknown to every one of the women whose forms in Parian marble the world admires.