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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2640, 10 December 1915, Page 2

Indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis, THEN ULCERATION. WHY MAGNESIA SHOULD BE TAKEN AFTER' EVERT MEAL. A flushed face may I>o the first noticoablo symptom <)f indigestion, but disregard this warning and soon there is unmistakable pain, for indigestion is a progi'essive ailinont. At first the symntoms may bo allayed by pepsin, bismuth, or soda, but these things do not overcome the acid-tin the stomach, which is usually the underlying cause of the trouble, aud consequently the acid accumulates and the occasional attack of indigestion becomes chronic, dyspepsia. The dyspeptic is always particularly liable to gastritis, and gastric ulcers in the stomach are only too often tho forerunners of peritonitis and death. Tluil. is why physicians lay such stress upon the importance, of keeping t.lio stomach free from harmful acid, and are continuously advising chronic dyspeptics, as well as those who only experience occasional .attacks of indigestion, to keep a little pure bisurated wagnesia handy, and take half a teaspoonful in a little water after every meal. local chemists stock bisurated magnesia; in fact, they have lately been making quite a speciality of it, aild we would certainly advise readers having any form of digestive or stomach Ironbin to obtain a supply, and give it a trial. Ucmeinbur, though, that it is bisurated magnesia which physicians recommend; the oxides, citrates, and sulphates of niatUKsiii or mule mixtures of bismuth and innsfni'alu wuultl nroljubly do more 1 harm tlwa Adyt-.