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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 28, 1 October 1915, Page 3

THE FOLLY OF TAKING DIGESTIVE PILLS. A WARNING TO DYSPEPTICS. The habit of taking digestive pills after meals makes chronic- dyspeptics of many thousands of men and women because artificial digestants, drugs and medicines have practically no influence upon tlie excessively acid condition of the stomach contents which alone is the cause of most for.ms.juf indigestion and dyspepsia. The after(linner pill merely lessens the sensitiveness of the stomach nerves and thus gives a false sense of freedom from pain, whereas if those who are subject to flatulence, heartburn, wind, j etc.. were to obtain a little pure bisurated magnesia from the chemist and i take half a tea spoonful in a little wat- I er after meals, there would be no necessity for drugs or medicines be-. pause hisurated magnesia instantly neutralises acidity, stops food fomentation, and thus ensures normal painless digestion by enabling the stomach to do its work without hindrance, x ( '•'^-UiaitoMw*