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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 2

IF FOOD DISAGREES DRINK HOT WATER,

When food lies like lead in the stomach and you have that dnconifortable, distended feeling, it is because of insufficient blood supply to the stomach, combined with acid and food fermentation. In such cases try the plan now followed in many hospitals and advised by eminent specialists, of taking half a teaspoonful of ''bisurated" magpesia in half a glass of water as hot as you can comfortably drink it. The hot water draws the blood to the stomach, and the "bisurated" magnesia, as any physician or chemist can tell you, instaiitly neutralises the acid and stops the food fermentation. Try this simple plan and you will be astonished at the immediate feeling of relief and comfort tlmt always follows the restoration Of the normal process of digestion. But be sure you ask the chemist very . distinctly for "bisurated" magnesia, thus avoiding confusion with the sulphates, oxides and citrates or bismuth and magnesia mixtures, which are often unsuitable. Soldiers at the front and travellers who are obliged to take hasty meals poorly prepared should always take two or three five-grain tablets of "bisurated" magnesia after meals to prevent ferjactation and neutralise the '