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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 6

ACID STOMACHS ARE DANGEROUS; NINE-TENTHS OP ALL STOMACH TROUBLE SAID TO BE DUE TO ACIDITY. A PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE ON CAUSE AND CURE. A famous physician whose successful rei searches into the cause and cure of stomach and intestinal diseases have earned for him an international reputation, said in the courso of a recent . lecture that nearly all intestinal troubles, as well as ; many diseases of the vital organs, were directly traceable to a deranged condition of the stomach, wh'ch in turn was due nine times out of ten to excessive acidity, which not only irritated and inflamed the delicate limns of t.hc stomach, but also set up gastritis and stomach ulcers. It is interesting to note that lie. condemns the use of patent medicines as well as of medical treatment for the .stomach, statin? that he and his colleagues havo secured remarkable results by the use of ordinary bisurmted magnesia, which, by neutralisms the acidity of the food, removes the source of tlio trouble.' ITe contends that it is as foolish to treat 111,? stomac.li itself as it would bo for a man who stepped on a tack to rub liniment on the foot without first removing the tack. Remove the tack and the foot will heal itself—neutralise the acid and stomach troubles will dirapnear. Irritating medicines and mescal treatments are useless, so long as the contents of the stomach remain acid; remove the acidity, and there will be no need for medicine—tl» inflamed I'mim of the stomach will then heal itself. Sufferers from acidity should , get a small bottle of l>isurated magnesia from their ciiomi.-'f, ami take half a tjaspoonful in a rinarter of a glass of h"t or cold wafer afler meals, repeating in fifteen minutes, if necessary, liiis beiiig the do«c which the d'ootor has Jound most in all cases,—AdvU