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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1917, Page 7

DESTROY STOMACH ACIDS BY TAKING MAUNESIA. If you suffer from indigestion or dyspepsia, you doubtless have a grievance against your stomach—it hurts you. viate this pain and pacify your stomach viate this pain and pacify our stomach by taking some pepsin or powerful painkilling- drug aftur meals, but is it wist to make such a patchcd-up peace with your stomach? Remember that in nine cases out of ten it is excessive acidity that causes stomach pain, and that drugs and medicines should only be 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. false because tlioy do not destroy the acid which almost invariably is the cause of tho trouble. There is really only one preparation which can bo relied upon to do this, and that is nisnrated magnesia, which most chemists stock in powder and tablet form. Half n 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 pos-siiit-v of the food fermenting in the stomach. It is because of this wellknown fact that bisurated mao-nesia is &m.<* ■ e.x.teji.siyeJy 'iied in hospitals. '