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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2209, 23 July 1914, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS STOMACH TROUBLES. PRINCIPAL CAUSE REVEALED. A great deal of mystery is made about stomach, troubles, and many people go in constant dread of life-long incapacity or the horrors of the operating table just because they experience pain in the rcgion.of the stomach for which they cannot account. Instead of looking for tho cause of the trouble, they seem only too ready to describe, themselves as "martyrs'to indigestion" or "chronic dyspeptics." ' " : ' . Excessive acidity,;is said to be the direct cause of more than 90 per cent, of all stomach. troubles, and, according to many eminent physicians, the occasional use of a reliable antacid, such as half-a-teaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia in a little water after meals,-will do more towards righting stomach derangements than all-the patent foods and medicines ever invented, because this gets at the root of :the trouble—stops fermentation of the food contents, and neutralises the acids which othcrwiso would irritate and inflame the stomach. Tho first Australasian aerial mail was carried by the aviator Guillaux in a machine driven by Shell benzine, for which the local agents are Gollan, and'- Co, Proprietary, Ltd,