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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 8

ACID STOMACHS ARE DANGEROUS. NINE-TENTHS OF ALL STOMACH TROUBLE SAID TO BE DUE TO ACIDITY. A PHTSICIAN'sTdVICB ON CAUSE AND CUBE. A famous physician whose successful researches into the cause and oure of eferninch and intestinal diseases have earned for him an international reputation, said in the course. of a recent leoture that nearly all intestinal troubles, as well as many diseases of the vital organs, weTO directly traceable to a deranged condition of the stomach, which in turn was due nine times out of ten to excessive aciditv, which not only irritated and inflamed the delicate liming of the stomach, but also set up gastritis and stomach ulcers. It is interesting to notcthat he. condemns tho use of patent medicines as well as of medical treatment for the stomach, stating that he end his colleagues have secured remarkable results uy the use of ordinary bisrurated magnesia which, by neutralising the acidity of the food, remove the source of the trouble He contends that it is as foolish to treat the stomach itself as it would bo for a man' who stewped on a tacit to rub liniment on the. foot without first Temovin" the tacit. Bemove tho tack and tho foot mil heal it*clf-notttra.li«» the ncid and stomach troubles will disappear. Irritating medicines and medical treatments are useless, so long as the contents of the stomach remain acid; remove the aciditv. and there will be no need for iiiotlirine—the inflamed bmm of the srom"ch wilTthon heal 'itself. Sufferers from aciditv should set .a small tattle of bisurated magnesia from their chemist, and iil-e half a teaspoonful in a quarter of a alais of hot t cold water after meals, repeating iii.nitwn minutes, if necessary, this being tho Acm which the doctor has tanai »fl« effioaoimia in all oam— Myt k .,