Page 7 Advertisements Column 3

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 7

STOMACH MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS

DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA. Just how dangerous it is to indiscriminately dose the stomach with drugs and medicines is often hot realised until too late. It seems so simple to swallow a doso of some pecial mixture or' to take tables of some so-called remedy or other after meals, and the folly of this drugging' is not apparent until perhaps years afterwards. Regrets are than unavailing; it..hi in the early stages, when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, etc., indicates excessive .acidity of the stomach and fermentation of the food contents, that precaution should be '. taken. Drugs and medicines are unsuitable and often dangerous—tlvoy have as a rule little ov no influence upon the harmful acid, and that is why doctors are discarding them and advising suffer- i era from digestive and stomach'trouble tp get rid" oT" the dangerous acid, and ' Kteep the food' contents bland and sjweet by taking a - little bisurated magnesia instead.' Bisurated magnesia >is aijj approved antacid, which can readily be ob- : tained from the chemist. It is practically tasteless, and half a teaspoonful J taken in a little warm or cold water '. after meals will usually be "found quite sufficient to instantly neutralise excessive acidity of the stomach and prevent ' all nosaibilitv of the food Derinenting.