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Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1917, Page 6

DESTROY,STOMACH ACIDS BY TAKING MAGNESIA.

If you suffer from indigestion or dyspepsia, you doubtless have a grievance against your stomach—it hurts yon. viatc 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 wist to make such a patched-up peace with your stomach? Remember that in nine cases out of ten it is excessive acidity. that causes stomach pain, and thai drugs and medicines should only be used when the stomach is actually diseased, which rarely is the ease, 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 falsi! 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 ta!:en with a little water after meals will neutralise the acid, instantly, and also prevent all possility of the food fermenting in 'the stomach. It is because of this wellknown fact that bisurated magnesia is now so wttnsiyajy usej iaj hospitals.