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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 3

HOW DRUGS DELUDE DYSPEPTICS. A MENACE TO HEALTH. Byspeptics,who take drugs commit a ■ crime against their health, for drugs do not cure dyspepsia, neither do they possess the powor to neutralise acid in the stomach, which is the underlying cause of most forms of digestive and stomach trouble. Drugs may appeal- to give relief in some cases ,of indigestion and dyspepsia, but that is because they numb the 'nerves of the stomach and render-them insensible to pain. Herein liej the chief danger; the symptoms of the trouble are covered up and hidden, while the cause of the trouble—that is, the acid in the stomach—remains as active and as dangerous as over, and may in course of time cause gast.-Ic ulcers to form. Physicians have demonstrated over and over again that the stomach cannot regain strength or the digestive organs recover their power to function normally unless kept free froui irritant acid,, and this can lie achieved with safety and certainty by taking half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in a little water immediately after every meal It can bo relied upon to neutralise acid and prevent fermentation of the,food.' ' This method is now being employed by hospitals throughout the. country with, marked success, and we are sure the recipe will prove valuable to many of our readers. No difficulty should, 1 be experienced in obtaining the bisurated magnesia, for it is stocked by high-clnss chemists everywhere, but mak? sure that von get the bisurated form, of magnesia, for the oxides, sulphates, and titrates are] quite unsuitable,—Advt» '