SHOULD DYSPEPTICS DIET?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1242, 7 May 1914, Page 4

SHOULD DYSPEPTICS DIET?

A SPECIALIST’S VALUABLE ADVICE. “Dyspepsia, indigestion, flatulence, and practically all forms of stomach trouble,” writes a leading specialist, “ are in nearly every instance the direct result of food feiv mentation and the consequent production in the stomach of acid and gas, which irritates and distends the stomach and make normal digestion impossible. The gas, by distending the stomach and pressing upon the surrounding vital organs, seriously interferes with their work, and frequently causes palpitation of the heart; but the acid is much more dangerous, because it irritates, then inflames, and even ulcerates the delicate lining of the stomach, producing dangerous stomach ulcers, and even cancer. Food fermentation being primarily responsible for all the trouble, it was Jong the custom of physicians to permit the use only of such foods as could not ferment, but unfortunately unfermentable foods were soon found to be so lacking in nutrition as to result in partial starvation and rapid loss of strength and vitality. In view of this fact, physicians nowadays seldom, if ever, recommend dieting, but adopt instead the more logical plan of permitting the eating of any food that may be desired, and then preventing fermentation by neutralising the acidity. This they do by prescribing half g teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in a liitle warm water immediately after meals. This simple antacid is obtainable from any chemist, and so remarkable are its peculiar properties that dyspeptics and stomach sufferers can ‘eat practically anything they want so long as a little bisurated magnesia is taken immediately afterwards.’ Dieting for dyspeptics is seldom necess /, will soon be a thing of the past, sure you get the same as what doctors prescribe. It is bisuratc ' mag sia, s celled M-s-u-r-a-t-e-o. Other forms beanm; somewhat similar chemical names are x. ckir • i in its peculiarly valuable pror. , 4 - ; ties,” t ]

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