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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 67, 24 July 1913, Page 3

ACID STOMACHS ARE DANGEROUS. Common Sense Advice by a Distinguished Specialist. “Acid” stomachs are dangerous, because acid irritates and inflames the delicate lining of ttye, .stomach, thus hindering and preventing the proper gction or the stomach, and 'loading to nine-tenths of the'cases of stomach trouble from which people suffer. Medicines and medicinal treatments are useless in such cases, for they leave the source of the trouble, the acid in the stomach, as dangerous as ever. The acid must be neutralised, and its formation prevented, and the best thing for this purpose is half a teaspoouful of bisurated magnesia, a simple antacid, taken in a little warm or cold water after eating, which not only neutralises the acid, but also prevents the fermentation from which aciditv is developed. Foods which ordinarily cause greatest, distress can he eaten with impunity if the meal is followed with a little bisurated magnesia, which can 1)6 obtained' of any chferaist, and should always ho kept handy. . x i ; - *" The late'Florida millionaire, Mr H. M. Flagler, who died recently at the age of 83, has been described by Wallstreet associates as a man of modest demeanour, of few words, quiet, and a|«olutcly impend mw to criticism. When he was 72 years of age he divorced his wife, who. was said to he hopelessly insane, set aside £400,000 for her maintenance, and provided her with most eminent physicians at princely salaries. Ho then married a lady half his age. The divorce laws of Florida did not at that time include insanity as a reason for divorce, hut so powerful was Mr, Flagler that the Legislature of the State passed a law iiL his,favour,