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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 28 June 1913, Page 2

1,700 DYSPEPTICS IN STRATFORD

PHYSICIAN TELLS WHAT TO EAT, AND GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO ALL STOMACH SUFFERERS. A well-known medical practitioner recently made the startling statement that a careful estimate shows that near. !y 50 per cent, of us have some: decree of dyspepsia—that’s about 1700 people here in Stratford. When it was suggested that 50 per cent, is a pretty large percentage, the doctor, seeing that he was not being taken quite seriously, spoke as follows, and with emphasis that at once dispelled all doubt as to whether or not he was in earnest; —If 50 per cent of the people of your town had just been exposed to smallpox, the whole town would be panic-stricken, and yet such exposure probably would not cause anywhere nearly as many deaths as wili be caused, in time, by complications following mild cases of dyspepsia that are being neglected right at this minute. One drink of . Whisky doesn’t make a drunkard. One day’s neglect of a mild attack of dyspepsia isn’t going to kill anybody. But nearly everyone neglects an abnormal condition of the stomach for months oi yearsUbefbirehbeboraing conscious of being an actual victim of real dyisptpsia. . And neglect, • Lorn < that time ’on, can do damage pretty fasti It mlaV deaid to stomach ulcers oi- cancer, 'and terminate fatally. The enormous; ■mount of dyspepsia, and its alarming ifrjoM f year*L a tyfefaJJ■ afro ijac ( to, the . fact that don’t live mrmal live;:. It’s not nounal to eat fast, to eat ultra-fancy foods, to sit ail day at a desk, to live an inactive indoor life, etc. These abnormal condition! of living cause hyperacidity of the stomach. That means an excess of acid iu the stomach contents. That excess levels to dyspepsia, indigestion, belching, distress after eating, ■ wind, ~acidv stomaohj etc. For the retire of 'Any of,,4hpse ...trpublqft,-, t proscribe, first of all, '.the .use',of .some common Bensc. Don’t starve or go on any freak diet} but s eat moderately, avoid fancy dishes, go light on stimulants, and see if you can’t get a little more exercise. Don’t take any pepsin or patent medicines or drugs to act on the stomach, but go to your chemist and get a little ordinary hisurated magnesia, and take one-half to ,006 teaspoonful in a little hot or cold water after each meal. The Bisnrated magnesia' - is an antacid. It is not to act on the stomach at' - all, but to act entirely upon the contents of the stomach—to neutralise the excess acid. That is the way to get rid of your dyspepsia, indigestion, etc., and keep out of danger of developing stomach ulcers or cancer , /. *