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Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1917, Page 5

HOW TO NEUTRALISE DANGEROUS STOMACH ACIDS. Few people besides physicians realise the importance of keeping the food contents of the stomach free from acid fermentation. Healthy normal digestion cannot tako place while the delicate lining of the stomach is 1 being inflamed and distended by acid and wind—the results of fermenting food in the stomach, To secure perfect digestion, fermentation must be stopped or prevented, and the uoid neutralised. For this purpose physicians usually recommend getting ft little bisnrated magnesia from the chemist, and taking half a teaspoonful in a little hot water immediately after eating. They recommend magnesia because it is pleasant to take, lias no disagreeable after-.effects, and quickly stops fermentation, neutralises the acid and makes the sour acid food bland, sweet and easily digested. The regular use of bisnrated magnesia—be sure you get the bisurated magnesia, as other kinds of magnesia are not so valuable—is a guarantee of healthy, normal digestion, for it overcomes arid prevents that acid condition which aloae ia ike cause of troublt.