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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1917, Page 6

DESTROY STOMACH ACIDS BY TAKING MAGNESIA.

If you suffer from indigestion or dyspepsia, you doubtless have a grievance against vour stomach—it liur'ts yon. viate this pain and pacify your stomach viate this pain and pacify'our stomach by taking some pepsin or powerful painkilling drug- after meals, but is it wi-n to make such a patehcd-up peace with your stomach? Remember that in nine cases out of ten it is e.vvossive acidity that causes stomach pain, and that drugs and medicines should only lie used when the stomach is actually diseased, which rarely is the case, and then on your physician's advice. Drug may numb the pain, but the sense of security and well-being •they give you is usually fajse because they do not destroy the acid which almost invariably is the cause of the trouble. There is really only one preparation which can bo relied upon to do this, and that is bisurated magnesia, which most chemists stock in powder and tablet form. Half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia powder or two compressed tablets taken with a little water after meals will neutralise the acid instantly, and also prevent all possility of the food fermenting in tlse 'stomach. It is because of this wellknown fact that bisurated magnesia is W.W jjajd in hpagitalg. _