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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 20, 15 May 1914, Page 3

WHY YOUR STOMACH HURTS. A Doctor’s Common-sense Advice. Pain in the stomach, variously called indigestion, dyspepsia, flatulence, heart burn, stomach-ache, etc., is usually attributed to some unnatural, abnormal or diseased condition of the stomach itself.. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. Nineteen times out of twenty the stomach is absolutely healthy and normal, the pain and discomfort being entirely due to the acidity and fermentation of food which irritates and distends the stomach; although if this condition is allowed to run on. in time the constant irritation of the acid is likely to eat. into the stomach walls and produce ulcers and sometimes cancer of the stomach. Medicine is useless in such a case. The acid and fermenting food must he removed by a .stomach pump or an emetic, or you must neutralise the acid and stop the fermentation betaking half-a-teaspoonful of hisurated magnesia in a little water. This latter is by far the simpler and safer method. Hisurated magnesia almost immediately neutralises the dangerous acid and by correcting the food contents enables even, a tired, weak stomach to digest almost any food without any difficulty. Physicians advise that disunited magnesia should be kept in every home, and a little taken after each meal whenever the slightest tendency to fond fermentation is shown. He sure to obtain hisurated magnesia, as other forms of magnesia are valuable as tooth and mouth washes, but they do not give satisfactory results in stomach disorders.