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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2828, 20 July 1916, Page 3

Something of the magnitude and immensity of the work being done bv the Vancouver branch of the Canndiaii Ited Cross Society, through its ward brandies an'd auxiliaries in Greater Vancouver and [its subsidiary branches in the interior of the province, may be gathered from Hie fact that the central supplies depot lias received, classified, and shipped to headquarters at Toronto and England a grand total of 13,777,812 large and small articles for the men at the front. Needloss to say. all the other provinces have been equally energetic, and the amount of good thus accomplished cannot readily be overestimated. IF FOOD DISAGREES DRINK HOT . WATER. When food lies like lead in the stomach and you havo that uncomfortable, distended feeling, it is because of insufficient blood supply to tho stomach, combined with acid and food fermentation. In such cases try tho plan now followed in many hospitals and advised by eminent specialists of taking half a teaspoonfnl of bisurated magnesia in half a glass of water as hot as you can comfortably drink it. The hot water draws the blood to the stomach, and the bisurated magnesia, as any physician or chemist can tell you, instantly neutralises tho acid and stops the food fermentation. Try j this simple plan and you will bo aslonisli- ! ed at tho immediate feeling of relief ; and comfort that always follows tho restoration of the normal process of digestion. But be sure you ask the chemist very distinctly for bisurated magnesia, thus avoiding confusiou with the sulphates, oxides and citrates or bismuth and magnesia mixtures which are often unsuitable. Soldiers at the front, and ■ Jravcllers who arc frequently obliged In take hasty meals poorly prepared should : always take, two or three _ live-grain. tab- i lets of bisurated magnesia after meals to prevent fermentation and neutralise i in I