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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1917, Page 3

STOMACH-DRUGGING IS DANGEROUS. DOCTORS NOW ADVISE MAGNESIA. Just how dangerous it is to indiscriminately dose the stomach with drugs and medicines is often not realised until too late. It seems so simple to swalh.w a dose of some special mixture or to take tSCTjlets of pepsin, etc., after mea'is, and the folly of this drugging!, is not apparent until, perhaps, "years afterwards. Regrets are then unavailing; it is in the early stages, when indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence, etc., indicate excessive acidity of the stomach and fermentation of the food contents that precaution should be taken. Drugs are unsuitable and often dangerous—they have little or no influence upon the harnfful acid, and that is why doctors are discarding them and advising sufferers from digestive and stomach trouble to get rid of the dangerous acid and keep the food contents bland and sweet by taking a little bisurated magnesia instead. Bisurated magnesia is an antacid, which can readily be obtained from the chemist. It is pnactically tasteless, and half a teaspoonful taken in a little warm or cold water after meals will usually be found quite sufficient to instantly neutralise excessive acidity of the stomach, and prevent fOMibility of the food fermenting.