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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1917, Page 5

GAS IN THE STOMACH IS DANGEROUS. PHYSICIANS ItEOOMMF.ND THE USE OF MAGNESIA. Sufferers from huligeslion or dyspepsia t=ehould remember that the presence of gas or wind in the stomach invariably indicates that the stomach is troubled by excessive acidity. This acid causes the food to ferment, and the fermenting food in turn gives rise, to noxious gases which distend the stomach, hamper Uie normal functions of vital inierrral organs, c:vuso acute headaches inierfere wilh the notion of the heart, and charge (lie blood stream with deadly poisons,, which in time must rum the health. Physicians say that to quick - • ly dispel a dangerous accumulation of wind in the stomach and to stop the food fermentation wfcich creates the gas. the acid in the .•tomsich must bo neutralised, and that-for thi« purpose there is nothing quite so good as half a toaspoonful of bisurated magnesia taken in a little water immediately after meals. This instantly neutralises acid, thus stopping fermentation and the formation of gas, and enables the inflamed, distended stomach to proceed;with its work under natural conditions., Bisursted magnesia is obtainable in powder or tablet form from any 'dicmiat.; but as tbere are many different forms of magnesia it is important that : the bisurirted which the physicians pre-arahejahaJdd-^.clJßfeii^splicd^or.